Sports Quotes
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I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
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Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.
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You can stand at a bar and scream all you want about who was the greatest athlete and which was the greatest sports dynasty, and you can shout out your precious statistics, and maybe you're right, and maybe the red-faced guy down the bar - the one with the foam on his beer and the fancy computer rankings - is right, but nobody really knows.
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I think flexibility in general is something that needs to be reinforced, and not only baseball players but all sports.
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Homophobia in male sports is much stronger than in women's sports; the locker room environment is a lot different. It's going to be much more of a brave step, an earthshaking move, for a gay male athlete to come out.
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It is a game before a product, a sport before a market, a show before a business.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Never put an age limit on your dreams.
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Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
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From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations.
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I can't believe how much money I lose betting on sports. "sucker born every minute". That's me!
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My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged.
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Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
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I enjoyed playing the other sports. I just sucked at them.
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I like other sports, too, including skiing and swimming, and I am learning to play ice hockey now. But judo is definitely part of my life, a very big part, and I am glad that judo was the first sport I took up and that I have practiced it regularly and seriously. I am also grateful to Japan for this.
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Sports and politics don't mix.
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I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.
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I watch a lot of ESPN. I just kind of keep it on for long periods of time and watch guys yell at each other about sports things.
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I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.
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Northwestern was never known as a sports school. I was proud to add a national title to the school.
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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
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Success shouldn't be measured by how much you have but by how much you give back.
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Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.
