Sports Quotes

• I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.

  

  Eli Manning
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

  

  Alex Graves
  • Career
  • Night
  • Comedy

• I am just like all the jerks and idiots you know. I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Guy
  • Sports

• I started my career as a swimsuit model. My first big break in America was 2007, 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • America
  • Career
  • Model

• Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Time
  • Long
  • Death

• My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Feeling
  • Always
  • Motto

• I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

  

  Dirk Nowitzki
  • Basketball
  • Tennis
  • Soccer

• Part of what a good dad can do, then, is to make sure that his daughter also gets involved with team sports, and to help her with the lessons in life that are innate to any team empowering itself. –page119.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Good
  • Help

• For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

  

  Kurt Russell
  • World
  • Money
  • High

• I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Up
  • Theatre
  • Grow

• I'm a huge sports fan.

  

  Marc Anthony
  • Sports

• The Cleveland Cavaliers are forced to play in something called the 'Quicken Loans Arena.' This is a terrible name for a sports venue.

  

  Adam Schlesinger
  • Sports

• I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Great
  • Heart
  • Hope

• I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • World
  • Night
  • Law

• I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • Good
  • Person
  • Feel

• I'd like to run a professional football team. I'd love to run the USTA, be the sports editor of the 'New York Times.'

  

  Jeff Zucker
  • Team
  • Football
  • Professional

• Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

  

  Elizabeth Price
  • People
  • School
  • Culture

• Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.

  

  Elizabeth Thornton
  • Up
  • School
  • High

• My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'

  

  Kate Upton
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Sports

• Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

  

  Neil Simon
  • Sports

• In track years... track is not like other sports. You do have track athletes that stay in this sport until, like, 35, 36, but I think when you get to 28, it's really difficult.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Think
  • Sports
  • Difficult

• My parents never forced things on my brother and me: not our faith, not our sports, not our friends. Yet they taught us about surrounding ourselves with the right people: the kind of people we want to be.

  

  Amanda Borden
  • People
  • Friends
  • Parents

• This is what makes sports so amazing, that we can start a discussion around a table, in the newspaper, in the magazines, that will get people's attention. And that's what sports does.

  

  Cam Newton
  • People
  • Attention
  • Amazing

• Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.

  

  Jack Kent Cooke
  • Earth
  • Sports
  • Face

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