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Quotes About Sport

When a sport comes down to physical power, then it definitely needs to be split between men and women, but motor racing is a little bit like horse riding where we fight with the same tools. I believe that motor racing is a sport where women can take on men.
~ Susie Wolff
Live TV is physically grueling. I'm concentrating very hard to recall numbers, dates and events to bolster my argument and win a debate. Every eight to 10 minutes, a new sport or topic is thrown at me.
~ Skip Bayless
With just about every player in Australia, his whole goal and ambition is to play for Australia. That's why they're playing first class cricket. It's just a different attitude.
~ Shane Warne
It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.
~ Peter Lerangis
In digital world, sport provides opportunity to bring people together.
~ Edwin Moses
The complete selfishness of the aged, she thought. This girl who should have been out in her young world of sport and pleasure, living in this mortuary of a house with two dismal women.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
It's true I have a stay-at-home nature. I abhor physical exercise (except for making love, of course). I've always believed that sport should be left to the dunces.
~ Maryse Condé
The vast majority of runners, however, seldom train at a truly comfortable intensity. Instead, they push themselves a little day after day, often without realizing it. If the typical elite runner does four easy runs for every hard run, the average recreationally competitive runner—and odds are, you're one of them—does just one easy run for every hard run. Simply put: Running too hard too often is the single most common and detrimental mistake in the sport.
~ Matt Fitzgerald
There's probably some truth in the idea that killing for sport is an act of rebellion against one's own mortality, as if in possessing the power of death one somehow defeats or deflects it.
~ Matthew Scully
There is nothing so serious as a game.
~ Maureen Johnson
I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don't get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.
~ Maureen Johnson
The one thing I can't get enough of is boxing. I love sparring in the ring or just doing the training, and it's easily one of the most effective ways of keeping off fat.
~ Matthew Hussey
I actually love swimming but I just hate jumping in the water.
~ Natalie Coughlin
I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.
~ Mark Cuban
I love sport as long as its kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life.
~ David Icke
You know, I love wearing heels. I wish I could wear them all the time, but, you know, my sport doesn't really permit it.
~ Allyson Felix
I love to play baseball. I'm a baseball player. I've always been a baseball player. I'm still a baseball player. That's who I am.
~ Ryne Sandberg
Shopping is a woman thing. It's a contact sport like football. Women enjoy the scrimmage, the noisy crowds, the danger of being trampled to death, and the ecstasy of the purchase.
~ Erma Bombeck
Baseball? It's just a game — as simple as a ball and a bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. It's a sport, business — and sometimes even religion.
~ Ernie Harwell
Baseball just a came 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.
~ Ernie Harwell
We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too.
~ Evan Davis
You can't win in any sport without heavily concentrating on revenue generation. You have to be relentless in that regard if you are going to be able to afford the kind of players you need to compete at the highest level.
~ John W. Henry
Ultimately, we have got to make our sport more diverse if we want to be relevant in the future.
~ Susie Wolff
I've grown up with Bollywood, and I continue to enjoy it. But boxing remains my passion.
~ Vijender Singh