Quotes About Sports

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

It's a metaphor for life. If sports don't matter, then life doesn't matter.

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You know how sporting events are. No one questions grown-ups hanging around. It's a pedophile picnic." Rauser glanced over at me as we walked back to the car. "That's how you see kids and sports?" "You know me. Ray of sunshine.

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: [from academe] A modern school where football is taught.

It is naive to think that sport is above politics, that any kind of level playing field exists, or that sport allows the world to put its problems on hold.

My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.

Because it's you and basketball, Christian. Only one of you can break my heart.

He doesn't know the value of letting the other guy lose.

Le spun oamenilor c? nu m? uit la programe sportive. Nu-mi plac. Cum adic?? Adic?, nu-mi place sportul. Ei râd. Adic? nu-mi place niciun sport în afar? de tenis? Nu, tenisul îl ur?sc mai mult decât pe toate celelalte. Da, da, sigur c? e o glum?. Nu ai cum s? ur??ti tenisul. Ba da.

The place was always cold, and I got the feeling that the fans would have enjoyed baseball more if it had been played with a hockey puck.

Thus, for example, an article in the German weekly news magazine Der Spiegel proclaims that this women's soccer has nothing to do with sports—a standard European reaction to women's soccer in America.47 "Typically American" were the first two words in the introduction to the article, so that the reader would know right away what to expect.

If anyone out there is mildly curious about rugby, I'd recommend a weekend spent watching the Six Nations. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

I got into tennis because of my parents. They would play a little on the weekend and I liked it when I played.

Since I finished in football Ive had no sport in my life, no football. Ive always been geared towards something for the weekend, always had competition.

When I was 11, I went to a sports school about an hour from home and stayed there during the week, only going home at weekends. That was hard, but it prepared me before I left for Bilbao; it made me stronger.

My parents were proud of the fact that I was playing cricket, they used to ferry me around during the weekends to play the game.

I used to go a lot to F1 when Real Madrid didn't play at the weekends. It was a lot of fun and I always wanted Real Madrid to play on a Saturday so I could watch F1 on Sunday!

It is so important to be active when you are young, and I think it would have helped me tenfold if, alongside 'Popworld,' school, T4, Radio One and all those other things I was doing, that I had played a bit of sport at the weekends with my friends.

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

After my grandmother finished watching 'Lawrence Welk,' my dad would race to the TV and put on the weekly hockey game. He loved watching Henri Richard, Gordie Howe and Terry Sawchuk. My dad's seven brothers and sisters weren't particularly thrilled with his viewing choices.

I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.

It's all well and good having a women's Tour de France - which I think we need and I think we should have. But I think we should slowly build it in and not just go 'Bam!' with three weeks over the same course and same length of time as the men's.