Sports Quotes

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

LeBron James

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

Fergie

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

Ty Cobb

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Larry King

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

Chad Harbach

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

Lynn Redgrave

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

Branch Rickey

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Jim McKay

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Carl Lewis

I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.

Kylie Bax

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

Lou Holtz

I wanted to use sports for social change.

Billie Jean King

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.

Al Kaline

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Bruce Jenner

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Dennis Miller

I sort of try to write everything for me. I'm a huge sports fan but have no interest in minutiae. I don't remember who won Super Bowls five years ago or listen to sports talk radio. I'm trying to make sure the jokes are self-contained so they're accessible to everyone.

Norm MacDonald

I think money in general hurts all sports.

Will McDonough

I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.

Bill James

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

John Cena

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

Stephen Wallem