Sports Quotes

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.

Bob Verdi

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Neil Peart

When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.

Tommy Lasorda

I started my cooking 'career' aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

Rene Redzepi

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

George Bernard Shaw

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

Lewis H. Lapham

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Jason Bateman

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

Randy Castillo

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

Steve Fossett

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

Ricky Williams

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Carl Lewis

We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

Calvin Klein

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

John Updike

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

Callie Khouri

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

Bobby Fischer

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Joe Manganiello

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

Charles Spalding

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

Shaquille O'Neal

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

Shaun White

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

Sean Astin