Sports Quotes
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Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
Lou Holtz
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I am a huge sports fan.
Kris Allen
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I have a pretty expanded view of what art is. I include pop music and even some sports.
Elizabeth Price
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I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.
Marisa Miller
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At school, I would read the City pages before I read the sports pages.
Lloyd Dorfman
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There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.
Kurt Busch
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin
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I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.
Pablo Francisco
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Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.
Jerry Reinsdorf
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Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
Hakeem Olajuwon
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Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
Bob Iger
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It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
Neil Peart Rush
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I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.
Alia Atkinson
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Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
Avery Brundage
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At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
Willie Mays
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Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
Lesley Visser
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I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.
John Roger Stephens
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If the presidential nominating process were an international sports competition, one would assume that top officials of both parties were taking envelopes of cash from town chairs in Durham and precinct captains in Waterloo.
George Packer
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Not everyone likes sports. Gandhi and Malcolm X come to mind.
Jay Mohr
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People spend money on sports, and I just don't do golf, I hate it. But I love sailing and the technology aspect.
James H. Clark
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It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
Apolo Ohno
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Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.
John Money
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As the Olympic torch neared Lake Placid, N.Y., in 1980, signaling the opening of that year's Winter Olympics, newspapers and magazines throughout the world offered predictions on who would win medals in the major sports. Not a single publication gave the American men's hockey team a chance against the world powers.
Don Yaeger