Sports Quotes

When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.

Willie Mays

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Billy Graham

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Jesse Owens

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

Hedy Lamarr

We've seen the kind of social impact a professional sports team has on a city. A team brings high-profile role models into your community who are healthy and they're great images for the city to gravitate toward, especially for kids.

Mick Cornett

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.

Phil Jackson

In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

Jo Nesbo

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

William Petersen

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.

Sasha Cohen

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Alan Shepard

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

Yogi Berra

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

Arlen Specter

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Gerald R. Ford

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

James E. Rogers

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

Graham Taylor

You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent.

Leigh Steinberg

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

Avery Brundage

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Greg LeMond

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

Rick Yune

Why should sports men and women get punished harsher than people in the normal world?

David Millar