Sports Quotes

"Of all sports, wrestling is the most like cuddling. I’m all sweaty because I’m training hard to show her how much I love her."

Jarod Kintz

"I need to take loving to the extreme, as if it were a sport requiring a helmet and parachute. I wonder if @redbull would sponsor me."

Jarod Kintz

"Tennis is the only sport with love in the score, and that makes it the most romantic. I would be a player, but I wisely use the net to go fishing instead."

Jarod Kintz

"Quarterbacks shouldn’t leave the pocket, because that’s where the money is. Every politician knows this."

Jarod Kintz

"People always ask me if I’m into sports, and I say, “Well, isn’t writing a sport? If you’re doing it right, and you have a deadline, you should be sweating."

Jarod Kintz

"[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)"

David Halberstam

"Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream."

James Ross

"I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world."

Harry Crews

"With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die."

Criss Jami

"There are no environments where you're only going to win, because life just isn't like that."

Bobby Orr

"if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!"

Tiger Woods

"The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen."

Bob Lemon

"As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports."

John Hodgman

"I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it."

Larry Hagman

"There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars."

Mario Lopez

"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."

Alan Shepard

"I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me."

Joe Nichols

"I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life."

Charlie Kaufman

"There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim."

Billie Jean King

"I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports."

Julius Erving

"One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life."

Julius Erving

"I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies."

Ted Turner

"I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international."

Jimmy Wales

"I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!"

Fergie

"I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun."

Kellan Lutz

"I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports."

Kellan Lutz

"Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports."

Delta Goodrem

"I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them."

Nathan Fillion

"In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports."

Martina McBride

"It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes."

Angela Merkel

"I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches."

Tim Robbins

"I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop."

John Legend

"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks."

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

"Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again."

Carl Lewis

"I always separated sports and my personal life."

Carl Lewis

"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."

John Major

"Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years."

Joe Rogan

"My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region."

Sergei Bubka

"A lifetime of training for just ten seconds."

Jesse Owens

"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

Mark Twain

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

Henry David Thoreau

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

Michael Jordan

"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day."

Michael Jordan

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

Dan Gable

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

Rogers Hornsby

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

Yogi Berra

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

Mike Tyson

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

Michael Phelps

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."

Vince Lombardi

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

Wayne Gretzky

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