Sports Quotes

If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.

Edward G. Rendell

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

Jack Markell

Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this mottoThis phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto.

Pierre de Coubertin

Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

Yogi Berra

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Retief Goosen

Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.

Joe Rogan

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

George Orwell

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Martin Lewis Perl

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Dave Barry

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

Jim Bishop

I was certain I was going to do something in sports.

Tyler Christopher

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

Taylor Lautner

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater.

George Bernard Shaw

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

Mary Lou Retton

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

Andy Murray

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

Omar Epps

Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.

Bill Russell

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.

Deion Sanders

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.

Gail Simmons