Sports Quotes

• I think we have enough trouble finding community in this country, and sport does provide that. It is a mediocrisy, the greatest mediocrisy. If you're the best, it shows in sports. Nobody can say, 'Well, he's only there because of his connections,' or whatever. In that sense, I suppose it upholds democracy and the best in us.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Country
  • Community
  • Democracy

• Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Different
  • Kind
  • Sober

• The wonderful thing about delivering sports commentary on NPR was that because it has such a broad audience, I was able to reach people who otherwise had little or no interest in sport - especially as an important part of our human culture.

  

  Frank Deford
  • People
  • Important
  • Culture

• Believe me, the reward is not so great without the struggle.

  

  Wilma Rudolph
  • Believe
  • Sports
  • Motivational

• I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Sports

• And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

  

  Terry Gross
  • Thinking
  • Attention
  • Winning

• The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

  

  Dave Barry
  • Sports
  • Winter

• I spend way too much time watching television, going to sports games, going to movies. It struck me that there's an awful lot of data in the public domain for these sectors. The movie industry publishes weekly sales numbers - not many industries do.

  

  Anita Elberse
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Sales

• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  

  Hank Stuever
  • Cooking
  • Sanity
  • PBS

• Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

  

  Michael Rapaport
  • Sports
  • Hip Hop
  • Mentality

• I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, 'I can do this. It's fun.' I wanted to go for it, and I thought I'd like to make a living doing this.

  

  George Newbern
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Pretty
  • Training
  • Silly

• The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
  • Die
  • Sports
  • Study

• Just as sports teams recognize the potentially game-changing benefit of calling time-outs, failing to do so in matters of warfare is a surefire way to continue losing.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Time
  • Game
  • Sports

• I talk to people of different ages, and a guy who's 38 who says, 'I could've played Major League Baseball, but I had this knee injury...' Yeah, probably not. It's a big thing with men and sports, where they think they could have touched that thing.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.

  

  John McEnroe
  • Sports
  • Tennis

• Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

  

  Laird Hamilton
  • Sports
  • Surfing

• Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.

  

  John Lahr
  • Together
  • Sports

• There are no winners in this election 2016. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me. At least Hillary's Clinton a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports - the greatest comebacks ever - watching Donald Trump get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Guy
  • Reality
  • Attention

• My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • World
  • Kids
  • America

• When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

  

  Rick Yune
  • Arts
  • Combat
  • Expert

• It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

  

  Shirley Chisholm
  • Country
  • Reality
  • Football

• You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

  

  Jason Chaffetz
  • Sports

• A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Taken
  • Sports

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