Quotes About Sport

I don't think you necessarily have to be crazy-fit for freeskiing. So much of the sport has to do with agility and nimbleness and flexibility and other things. It's a lot of muscle memory - it's more like dance, in a way - it's technique more than strength or endurance.

Technology is changing the world; it's changing our sport. It's changing the way people are following the NBA.

I should give a TED Talk about my TV-marathoning skills. It's my sport.

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Baseball grew rapidly in favor; the field was ripe. America needed a live outdoor sport, and this game exactly suited the national temperament. It required all the manly qualities of activity, endurance, pluck, and skill peculiar to cricket, and was immeasurably superior to that game in exciting features.

Bicycles are considered sporting equipment, rather than serious tools for efficient transportation.

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog along to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten.

Big-league ball on the west coast of Florida is a spring sport played by the young for the divertissement of the elderly—a sun-warmed, sleepy exhibition celebrating the juvenescence of the year and the senescence of the fans.

It occurs to me that cricket is not the true sport in London - gossip is.

I am for hockey. I find I should like to hit something with a stick. -Gemma Doyle Trilogy

Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

Basketball really had its origin in Indiana, which remains the center of the sport.

For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is.

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

There is no doubt that Formula 1 has the best risk management of any sport and any industry in the world.

I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

The most interesting thing about this sport, at least to me, it the activity of preparation-any aspect of preparation for the games. The thrill isn't in the winning, it's in the doing.