Sports Quotes - Page 304

With sports and games, you have fun despite working very hard, even despite failing repeatedly. Even the fun of a night out, you have to get somewhere and do all the conversational, social work of being out. There's effort involved. But then when you're finished, you can conclude, "Actually there was something gratifying about the hardship that I just encountered." That discovery of novelty is where the molten core of fun is.

I've liked the Yankees since I was a kid. I grew up in Canada so I kind of identified with New York sports teams.

I grew up on North American sports teams as well as English soccer clubs.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

We must have football. What would this country be without football in October?

I'm a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it's pure.

We ought never to sport with pain and distress in any of our amusements, or treat even the meanest insect with wanton cruelty.

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.

Baseball, of all sports, and maybe of all human endeavors, has no room for cynicism.

The shame is not in having sported, but in not having broken off the sport. [Lat., Nec luisse pudet, sed non incidere ludum.]

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.

I have given my life to the game and to the sport.

I think we need to be a bit more proactive. Let's not just talk about availability of sports, let's make the facilities more accessible to kids and make them want to come along.

I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.

There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.

O Friends, be men, and let your hearts be strong And let no warrior in the heat of fight, Do what may bring him shame in others' eyes

I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.

I love boxing, and boxing has always been my favorite sport. I was always into it, and I boxed recreationally all of my life.

I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?

People shy away from it [MMA] because they think it's a brutal, brutal sport, and I've said, 'Guys, MMA is safer than football and boxing,... And people tell me they don't believe it. Am I not the most credible person to give you the answer to that?

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very big racial tension.

The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.

A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.