Sports Quotes
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The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms.
John Skipper
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As most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing.
Charles Krauthammer
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I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.
Oliver Kahn
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Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.
Rupert Murdoch
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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
David Shields
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
William Cowper
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Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!
Nigel Hamilton
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The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.
Brad Faxon
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Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
Willie Stargell
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You don't get lucky in sport.
Clive Woodward
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As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game
Herb Kohl
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I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way.
Catherine Bell
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Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.
Nicholas Charles Goepper
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I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.
Mike O'Malley
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I was such a dork in high school. I like - I played sports. I played in the symphony. I auditioned all the time. I was thrown off the sports teams for auditioning all the time.
Ethan Peck
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In fact, as a spin bowler, you have to work on the batsman over after over.
Richie Benaud
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I'm interested in all kinds of sports. I'll glance at the front page and then go straight to sports and then I'll come back to the rest of the paper.
Steve Kroft
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The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
William Gilmore Simms
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Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
Dave Parker
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ABC Sports has a very strong legacy and sports fans understand it.
George Bodenheimer
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I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.
Ashton Eaton
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If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.
P. J. O'Rourke
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As for my country, I don't live there, but obviously I'm very proud to be Canadian.
Mike Weir
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Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
William H. Gass