Sports Quotes
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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In a nation committed to better living through chemistry - where Viagra-enabled men pursue silicone-contoured women - the national pastime has a problem of illicit chemical enhancement. Steroids threaten the health of the 5 percent to 7 percent of players proved, by a mild regime of scheduled tests, to be using them. Steroids also endanger emulative young people. Further, steroids subvert what baseball is selling - fair competition. And they strike at the pleasure of engagement with America's team sport with the longest history.
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Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
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Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.
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I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out.
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I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.
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I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.
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I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.
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I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.
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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
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A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
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Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
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Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose.
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
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I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.
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Hockey is not a sport - it's a disease.
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Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.
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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.
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I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
