694 private quotes tagged sports

“I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.”— Mindy Kaling

“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

“Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.”— Ice Cube

“I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.”— J. C. Watts

“I'm not a big sports fan.”— Harlan Coben

“I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.”— Harlan Coben

“There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.”— Harvey Weinstein

“My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.”— Amy Klobuchar

“The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields they laughed all the time.”— Andrew Shue

“I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.”— Danny Boyle

“Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.”— Haruki Murakami

“I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.”— Josh Hutcherson

“Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.”— Dan Rather

“I wanted to use sports for social change.”— Billie Jean King

“In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.”— Billie Jean King

“There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.”— Curt Schilling

“I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.”— Jason Statham

“Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.”— Ice Cube

“Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know.”— Ice Cube

“The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.”— Jeffrey Kluger

“I've always had an interest in sports across the board.”— Gabrielle Union

“I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.”— Gabrielle Union

“I'm nothing more than a sports slave.”— Dennis Rodman

“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.”— Michael Mandelbaum

“I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.”— Nathan Fillion