Sports Quotes - Page 263

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

A lot of people like to think that golf is a lazy man's sport. Or it's a rich man's sport, or it's a sport that they can't be involved in.

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.

When women start to bond over their sexuality, it's very similar to the way that men bond over their sexuality in sports. Men bond over their sexual prowess - their strength, their agility, their power. Women bond over their undulation, their curves, their sensuality - things that are innately feminine. Once you do that, there is no turning back.

Acting is a sport, like a game of tennis, and you and your opponent take turns setting the level of play.

If I cry, it means I'm too weak to compete in this sport. That's bull.

I look at Anderson Silva and he can fight moving forward, he can fight moving backward, and he can fight moving left or right. It's something that I don't think anyone else in the sport other than Chuck Liddell has really been able to do.

He does a great job of it and keeps the sport entertaining and even my mom loves to listen to Joe Rogan when the fights are on so that tells you right there that he does something for the new fans of the sport that nobody else could.

I've been around fighters enough to know that you have to be able to give 100 percent of your effort and time into training for a sport.

That's the drama of our sport. Our margin of error is so small that anything can happen.

Because to me, what is interesting about this movie [Real Steel] is its combination of relationship naturalism with. It's like a single conceit movie. The world and the people are very much the way we know them to be, but this sport has evolved.

As opposed to a movie [Real Steel] where everything feels fantastical, it was really important to me, and I recognise it's not the first movie with robots in it, but that blend of naturalism in performance, writing and design with the futurism of this sport. That was the idea.

I love the sport of snowboarding so much, but I just don't want to talk about it, ever.

I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.

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.

On snowboarding as an Olympic sport: Since I was 6 years old I've been in the mix and watching this grow and change. I never would have expected it to go this far.

I've got to stand up for the sport.

I'd like to thank everyone who voted for me. And the one guy who didn't vote for me, thank you, too.

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

You have to remember that no matter how big your goals or how many you have, there are going to be times when you miss by a little bit. You have to be realistic and flexible. One reason I have so many smaller goals is that even if my big goals don't happen, I've still achieved so much along the way, I don't feel the loss.

I enjoy sports in person.