Sports Quotes

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

Suzanne Fields

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

Billie Jean King

Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.

Ernest Hemingway

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.

Kirsty Gallacher

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

John Hodgman

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Norman Ralph Augustine

I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

Mike Tyson

I've always been into sports and being physical.

Moon Bloodgood

I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Richard M. Nixon

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

Phil Knight

One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.

Michael Shannon

Professional sports are something they can't control.

Troy Vincent

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Bob Hope

Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.

Vitas Gerulaitis

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

Bob Hayes

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George J. Mitchell

Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.

George Leonard

For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

Michel de Montaigne

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Eva Herzigova