Quotes About Sports

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.

Hall-of-Fame announcer Red Barber: "Baseball is dull only to dull minds.

Did you play any sports?" Malcolm questioned as he took a bite of his salad. "Cheerleading!" "That's not a sport!" he said with a laugh. "You wish!

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

We, the humans, have been exploiting poor voiceless animals for thousands of years - in the name of religion, in the name of science, in the name of sports, in the name of fashion, and last but not the least, in the name of food. Hopefully some day this will come to an end, once we, the humans, appreciate the fact that even the animals have rights too, just like us, the humans. Let's hope that day will arrive soon! - Deo, on 149th anniversary of foundation of ASPCA, April 10, 2015.

I would venture to guess that if I was a construction worker... who requested a transfer to another department for the betterment of his family, I would be commended for it. But because it's sports, there's just so much passion added to it.

Yankee Stadium is my favorite stadium; I'm not going to lie to you. There's a certain feel you get in Yankee Stadium.

Why did his team have to be the Red Sox? As a passionate Yankees fan, he always rooted against the real Red Sox. And he'd never been on a team called the Yankees

Why did his team have to be the Red Sox? As a passionate Yankees fan, he always rooted against the real Red Sox. And he'd never been on a team called the Yankees yet.

I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

I think playing cricket taught me more about working in teams and leadership that has stayed with me throughout my career.

I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.

In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.

There is no sin in not liking to play; it's a mistake for a boy to be there if he doesn't want to.

Until Sammy Baugh - pro football in Texas was a one-paragraph story on the third page of the Monday sports section.

I got put into leadership roles very early in life from fifth grade, sixth grade. I always ended up being the quarterback or the leader of the sports teams, and it's kind of benefiting me now.

It's not like learning how to hit a curve ball in baseball.

I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.