Quotes About Sport

I played baseball up until my freshman year of high school. That was my main sport. I played third base.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Baseball is the only sport I know that when you're on offense, the other team controls the ball.

I like playing frisbee. It is the only sport where you can throw something at a person and it's okay.

Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.

The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.

I understand the psychology of the sport, especially inside the ring.

That's what's so amazing about climbing - it's not just a sport. It's a lifestyle, it's a way of being creative, of connecting with yourself and with nature.

The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

Photography is a demanding action sport. The light can change so quickly. I often find myself sprinting so that I can catch the perfect light falling on a photogenic subject.

The joy of surfing is so many things combined, from the physical exertion of it, to the challenge of it, to the mental side of the sport.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

I practice the martial arts. I don't practice MMA. MMA is my job, MMA is a new sport. Martial arts is the knowledge from the ages.

Ask José Mourinho, he wouldn't know a thing about me, my sport - he knows football, and to get to high levels you have to be insane, nothing else means anything.

I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

As someone that was a good ambassador of a growing sport, that always wanted to fight the best fighters and always gave the fans the best he could give.

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.