Sports - Quotes & Sayings

The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.

Jason Isbell

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

Elon Musk

Life is about timing.

Carl Lewis

Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.

Kapil Dev

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Warren Spahn

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Bo Jackson

I wanted to really ingrain myself in the culture and the people. And I apologize about having an allergy to dairy products that gives me some irritable bowels, but other than that, I mean, I've embraced just about everything else Wisconsin - especially when it comes to sports, but also the people and the interactions with our fans.

Aaron Rodgers

I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.

Matthew McConaughey

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

Demetri Martin

I wanted to use sports for social change.

Billie Jean King

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

Erma Bombeck

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

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.

John Travolta

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.

Suresh Raina

I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.

Suresh Raina

It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.

Lin Dan

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

Martin Mull

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.

John Madden

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Marilyn Monroe

Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.

Bill Gates

Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'

Stephen Bannon

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Lou Holtz

Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilt Chamberlain

I remember the day I met Cammi Granato, a former star on the U.S. women's hockey team. We were at a Women's Sports Foundation dinner in 1996, and she came over to introduce herself. She had watched the U.S. women's soccer team win gold at the Atlanta Olympics and was hopeful the U.S. women's hockey team could do the same.

Julie Foudy

Outside Buckingham Palace, the Royal Standard flies only when the reigning monarch is in residence. Sadly, there's no similar flag outside The Woods Jupiter, which Tiger opened in the summer of 2015, spending a reported $8 million to make an upscale sports bar-and-restaurant in his image.

Steve Rushin

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Adcock

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

Ed Skrein

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

Lucy Walker

I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.

Daniel Handler

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.

Carrie Underwood

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

Joel Osteen

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

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

Venus Williams

At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage.

Lou Holtz

People go into that arena, and they know the fix is in. They know what pro wrestling or sports entertainment is. That being said, they want it executed to the highest level so that they can suspend their disbelief and buy in, and so, in a world of make believe, you make people believe in you. It's as real as it can be.

Stone Cold Steve Austin

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

Deepika Padukone

I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.

Derrick Rose

Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great.

Lisa Leslie

Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.

Lil Wayne

I am very hopeful that my personal success in Qatar will ignite others, especially those in the so-called non-traditional sports, to try even harder because now they can see for themselves that significant achievements can be attained. But let me stress that it takes a lot of work - in fact, very hard work - mixed with very heavy doses of patience.

Alia Atkinson

As a general rule, Las Vegas sports books take boxing bets only on major fights.The same is true of most Internet gaming sites. Within that framework, not only does boxing allow participants to bet on their own bouts, it sometimes encourages them to do so.

Thomas Hauser

The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.

James Surowiecki

I played basketball, baseball, and football. I never had much downtime. But I think playing multiple sports helped tremendously in my baseball career. I have the agility of all three combined into one.

Giancarlo Stanton

I'm not sure I'll ever love softball as much as bobsled. It's like having children: you don't love one more than the other, you just love them differently, and that's how my love for softball is vs. my love of bobsled - two totally different sports with different personalities.

Elana Meyers

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

Winter sports aren't my thing. You can have your boards and blades and your glacier-gripping cleats: My feet prefer to negotiate the ground on a pair of dependable soles.

Julia Glass