Quotes About Sport

Enjoy the game. Happy golf is good golf.

It does look like a very good exercise. But what is the little white ball for?

If you design something pretty with good golf shots in it, then I think that's the combination that creates a really nice golf course.

I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.

I'm not the most delicate - I'm not the most graceful person, and I like playing a sport where being not delicate and not graceful is actually a good thing.

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

The medals don't mean anything and the glory doesn't last. It's all about your happiness. The rewards are going to come but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

The whole history of baseball has the quality of mythology.

Golf is a game that needlessly prolongs the lives of some of our most useless citizens.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

As an athlete, I hope we can remain focused on the Olympic spirit which celebrates achievement in sport by peoples of all nations.

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.

The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins.

Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.

Sailing is a completely new sport for me and I wasn't sure what to expect but I've definitely got the bug.

I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.

Football's the biggest game in the world. America's the greatest sporting nation there is. To play some part in putting those two things together: why wouldn't I be excited about that?

Arguing is a waste of time, because our attitudes need a quantum leap, not our knowledge. Arguing is a sport at best and a bad attitude at worst.

I lived to learn that in the world of sport all men win alike, but lose differently;

Well--watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favorite sport of the angels, but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.

Well—watching the contortions of the damned is supposed to be a favourite sport of the angels; but I believe even they don't think people happier in hell.