Sports Quotes

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Maurice Greene

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

Marion Jones

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

Lucy Powell

Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.

Ian Botham

Read the news section of the newspaper and there is confusion and uncertainty, a world buffeted by large forces people neither understand nor control. But turn to the sports section and it's all different.

Michael Mandelbaum

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

Ernie Banks

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Rebecca Lobo

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

Jesse Ventura

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Frank Shorter

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

Josh Charles

The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.

Samuel Richardson

For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.

Kurt Russell

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

Joyce Carol Oates

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.

Trishelle Cannatella

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

Joel Osteen

I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.

January Jones

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Curtis Joseph

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Jim Sensenbrenner

I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.

J. C. Watts

Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.

Jason Lee