Famous Quotes
- These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
- Charles Barkley on Sports
- These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
- Jim Sensenbrenner on Sports
- They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
- Mike Schmidt on Sports
- They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.
- Martin Lewis Perl on Sports
- Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.
- Esther Williams on Sports
- Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
- Paul Robeson on Sports
- Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
- Blaise Pascal on Sports
- Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
- Mark Wahlberg on Sports
- To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
- Jerry West on Sports
- Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.
- Retief Goosen on Sports
- Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
- Joe Adcock on Sports
- Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
- Venus Williams on Sports
- Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
- Lewis H. Lapham on Sports
- We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem.
- Louise Slaughter on Sports
- We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.
- Jurgen Klinsmann on Sports
- We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
- Lorrie Fair on Sports
- We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee on Sports
- We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.
- David Duval on Sports
- We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.
- Peter Farrelly on Sports
- We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
- Alastair Campbell on Sports
- We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
- John McEnroe on Sports
- We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.
- Christine Taylor on Sports
- We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.
- Philip Knight on Sports
- We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
- Claudio Reyna on Sports
- We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
- We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.
- Roger Goodell on Sports
- We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
- Calvin Klein on Sports
- We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to.
- Jerry Lawler on Sports
- We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.
- Shane Warne on Sports
- We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.
- Mick Cornett on Sports
- Well, I'm not a big sports fan.
- Jeff Bridges on Sports
- Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.
- Joe Manganiello on Sports
- What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.
- Shaun White on Sports
- What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
- Arnold Palmer on Sports
- What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
- Greg Norman on Sports
- What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
- Bill Russell on Sports
- What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
- When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
- Carla Gugino on Sports
- When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
- When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.
- LeBron James on Sports
- When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
- Rube Goldberg on Sports
- When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew.
- When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
- Hugo Black on Sports
- When I was a kid, I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football, basketball, baseball and soccer.
- Scott Caan on Sports
- When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
- Willie Mays on Sports
- When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
- Jackie Joyner-Kersee on Sports
- When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.
- Dietrich Mateschitz on Sports
- When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.
- Mike Royko on Sports
- When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.
- Junior Seau on Sports
- When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
- Hunter S. Thompson on Sports
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