Sports Quotes - Page 251

I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.

Therapy is the boat across the river, but most don't want to get off. Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Blood is drawn! I am impressed-though my hell-spawned powers will heal it! Besides... next to giving pain my favourite sport's to feel it.

True champions are team players.

I was foreign and Jewish, with a funny name, and was very small and hated sport, a real problem at an English prep school. So the way to get round it was to become the school joker, which I did quite effectively - I was always fooling around to make the people who would otherwise dump me in the loo laugh.

If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

That's the thing I love about sports: sports force you to quit. You can't pursue your dream till you're 46. When it comes to acting, writing, comedy, nobody ever stops you.

I've not made a career of being physical in my movies, but I love sports. I'm a very physical guy.

I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.

Fitness has always been one of the top priorities in my life because that's the way I grew up, with soccer being the sport of choice.

Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.

I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.

I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.

[On softball:] Diamonds are a dyke's best friend.

Anyone who says that softball is a boring game to watch isn't looking at the right things.

During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

Losing's a great motivator.

It made me hungry. I feel like I'm in a program that really helped me individually as a player. I feel like I'm with a group of guys that are like my best friends.

At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.

People judged my work without to have listened to it.

When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us.

The important thing is staying together if you want to do something special.

You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.

Because of television, sports columnists have become personalities. I went to a party [during Super Bowl week] and there must have been 500 people who wanted to talk to me because they saw me on TV. I've become sort of the Soupy Sales character on TV, and people do not really know me as a writer.