694 private quotes tagged sports

“As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.”— Zach Braff

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”— Jim Bouton

“Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.”— William Arthur Ward

“I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment.”— Brandi Chastain

“I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.”— Shaquille O'Neal

“I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.”— Susan Orlean

“In the morning, I reach for the sports page.”— Lisa Guerrero

“On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.”— Lisa Guerrero

“He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.”— Gary McCord

“I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.”— Kevin Costner

“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.”— J. J. Abrams

“I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.”— Ted Turner

“The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.”— Michael Mandelbaum

“All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.”— Gerry Cooney

“Honestly, I don't listen to nobody else's music but my own. It's kind of like sports to me. You don't see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game - he just works on his own game. And that's what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those things.”— Lil Wayne

“I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.”— Temple Grandin

“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”— Thorstein Veblen

“Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.”— Venus Williams

“I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.”— Tim Robbins

“Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.”— Mahesh Bhupathi

“My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.”— Jerry Ferrara

“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”— Arnold Palmer

“You cannot mix sports with politics.”— Jackie Chan

“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”— Tiger Woods

“I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.”— Susan Orlean