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The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.
— Kim Jong-un
I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.
— Danny Boyle
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
— Frank Gifford
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
— Joe Adcock
I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.
— Demetri Martin
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.
— Phil Knight
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
If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
— Jimmy Fallon
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
I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.
— Chloe Bennet
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
— John Travolta
If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.
— Tom Welling
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
— Ben Hogan
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
— Billy Graham
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
— Dale Earnhardt
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
— James Patrick Murray
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
— Michael Jordan
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
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
— Greg LeMond
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
— Doug Collins
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
— Gary Lineker
You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.
— Emma Stone
I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.
— Tipper Gore
Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
— Irene Rosenfeld
I used to practice at the hockey ground on synthetic surface while I was in the sports hostel, so Test cricket is certainly going to be a challenge for me.
— Suresh Raina
Every child should have time for arts, music, sports, drama, robotics, school newspapers and the like, not to mention recess and play.
— Chris Gabrieli
We wanted Nike to be the world's best sports and fitness company. Once you say that, you have a focus. You don't end up making wing tips or sponsoring the next Rolling Stones world tour.
— Phil Knight
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.
— Jeremy London
Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.
— Mark Wahlberg
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
— Dick Schaap
The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't.
— Greg Louganis
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
— Olivia Munn
The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.
— Lawrence Schiller
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.
— Phil Knight
I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.
— Xi Jinping
In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
— Linda Ronstadt
As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.
— Naveen Jain
Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
— Gail Collins
I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.
— Matthew McConaughey
When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
— Dmitry Medvedev
Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
— Martin Seligman
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
— Elon Musk
I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports.
— Brian Dennehy
I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.
— Monte Irvin
I think my appeal is that I've always tried to stay very grounded to my fans and to be accessible - not being this unattainable thing. I think doing sports and riding motorcycles has made me more approachable and more real and down to earth.
— Marisa Miller
Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.
— Richard Attias
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium.
— Richard Dawkins
I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
— Harbhajan Singh
Lake Pend Oreille is definitely my favorite place to be while in Sandpoint. I love to get out on a boat to enjoy water sports, camping, fishing, or just to relax and catch a sunset.
— Nate Holland
In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.
— Geoff Stults
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.
— Martin Bashir
Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.
— Ed Greenwood
Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.
— Jerry Jones
I paid more for the Dallas Cowboys than anyone prior than that had ever paid to get involved in sports. But I wanted to be a part of the future of the Dallas Cowboys.
— Jerry Jones
Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
— Venus Williams
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
— Venus Williams
I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
— Katherine Dunn
Sports uplift us. It's celebratory, gives us optimism and joy.
— Travis Kalanick
I think it's huge, especially in team sports, for players to be able to rely on each other and to really trust in each other.
— Alex Morgan
I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
— Angelina Jolie
We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
— Calvin Klein
I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.
— Michael Jordan
There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they're eight years old and they go, 'Whoa, this is incredible,' and grow up to do extreme sports. It's the same for me with acting.
— Joaquin Phoenix
I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.
— Al Michaels
I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on.
— Zakk Wylde
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
— Bill Gates
Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.
— Mitt Romney
I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.
— Jason Statham
I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, baseball and the rest.
— Robert Kennedy
I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.
— Richard M. Nixon
You cannot mix sports with politics.
— Jackie Chan
I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.
— Mary Berry
Some people go off to an ashram or they, you know, have a midlife crisis and buy a sports car. For me, I do 'Hedwig,' and I see it's a midlife crisis maybe, and I see what's next. And it's a good trampoline, maybe, into the next part of my life.
— John Cameron Mitchell
All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70.
— Peter O'Toole
Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.
— Brandon Webb
I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.
— Charlie Kaufman
I've been playing sports since I was five. For me, there's no happier moment than when I'm out in the woods on a bike or a run. I feel on top of the world, and nothing else makes me feel that way.
— Daniel Humm
Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
— William Wordsworth
In sports and in business, the greatest leaders are those who make the best decisions in the most crucial of situations. They are the ones who focus their energy on turning tough decisions into winning decisions.
— Don Yaeger
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
— Magic Johnson
I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
I have never cared especially for outdoor sports and have no desire to excel at tennis, swimming, or golf. I'll leave those things to the men.
— Marilyn Monroe
I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.
— Larry King
My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it's almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports... you become a better all-around athlete.
— Sam Bradford
I know when I have kids, when I'm older, I'm going to encourage them to play sports because I think it teaches you a lot. It teaches you discipline, teamwork, and that there's really no 'I' in team.
— Gregg Sulkin
I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
— Luke Scott
In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great.
— Tom Brady
Every boy learns more in his hours of play than in his hours of labor. In school, he lays in the materials of thinking, but in his sports, he actually thinks: he whets his faculties, and he opens his eyes.
— William Godwin
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
— Charles Barkley
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
— Jack Lemmon
Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.
— Jason Lee
I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.
— Kapil Sharma
A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
— Olivia Munn
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 sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways.
— Kerri Strug
The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.
— Robert Redford
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
— Neil Simon
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
— Bill Veeck
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
— Sam Snead
I love outdoor sports, like volleyball, and I play them whenever I can.
— Gisele Bundchen
We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.
— Jackie Joyner-Kersee
Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.
— Portia Simpson-Miller
Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.
— Elizabeth Thornton
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
— Novak Djokovic
All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.
— Pete Hamill
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
— H. G. Wells
I'll let the racket do the talking.
— John McEnroe
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
— Robert Frost
I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.
— Dave Chappelle
In a world as competitive as ours, the child who does not get a decent education is condemned to the fringes of society. I think all Australians agree that this is intolerable. So we must demand as much of our schools as we do of our sports teams - and ensure that they keep the Australian dream alive for every child.
— Rupert Murdoch
Sports is the toy department of human life.
— Howard Cosell
Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.
— Kim Yuna
Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
— Woodrow Wilson
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
— Nolan Ryan
You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.
— Paul Allen
I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.
— George Will
Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.
— Chris Rock
Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.
— Phil Simms
Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
— Bruce Dern
As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.
— Sheryl Swoopes
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.
— J. C. Watts
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
— Gabriel Iglesias
Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball. It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
— Jennie Finch
When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?
— Mike Nichols
I still feel that in India we look upon sports as a recreational activity - which it is - but people have to understand that there is a career in sports. It's not just necessary to be a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer, as most of us Indians appear to think that our children should grow up to be.
— Abhishek Bachchan
When I was little, I guess I was just an ordinary kid. But then things changed when I was in junior high. You know, kids that become geeks become one because of something. Like, they aren't good at sports, or girls don't like them. I, too, for some reason, got into things like science fiction and, well, especially science fiction as an escape.
— Takashi Murakami
Leadership is one of sports' intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, 'Follow me.'
— Paul Coffey
I grew up in a very 'Friday Night Lights,' sports-focused town. I did not play the sports. I was never bullied physically, but I was called names. I was also an overweight kid. I knew what it's like to feel like the other, to feel written off for things that were not in my control - my appearance, my interests.
— Robin Lord Taylor
The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.
— David Grann
To be honest, I'm shocked the University of Washington's sports teams are called the Huskies. Why haven't the Leftists that run this entire state demanded they be renamed the 'Athletes of Size' so as to not fat shame anyone?
— Milo Yiannopoulos
The diet for climbing all the time isn't really different from the diet for living. It's not like cardio sports where you're burning a bajillion calories every day.
— Alex Honnold
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
— Blaise Pascal
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
— Jesse Owens
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
— Roger Kahn
I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.
— Jeff Greenfield
It's hard to create new friendships outside sports.
— Tim Tebow
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
— Lin Dan
After one Olympics, if we invest in sports and say we will get a gold medal in the next Olympic, it doesn't work like that in sports. How it works is that you provide the infrastructure, provide education about nutrition and health.
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
There's food and supplements that you can take legally that will better your body and help you stay healthy. Shortcuts are something that's always been around all sports, but as a union, we're trying to do the best we can to weed those guys out of the game.
— Jake Arrieta
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
— Arnold Palmer
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
— Ben Hogan
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
— Charles Barkley
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
— Dean Martin
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
— Ernie Banks
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 had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
— Gerald R. Ford
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
— Grantland Rice
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
— Hank Aaron
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
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
— John Updike
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
— Nick Faldo
Fans don't boo nobodies.
— Reggie Jackson
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
— Steve Garvey
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
— George Brett
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
— Christy Mathewson
All sports for all people.
— Pierre de Coubertin
I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
— Sasha Cohen
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
— Avery Brundage
I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships.
— Brian McBride
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.
— Jack Kevorkian
The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.
— Howard Cosell
My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.
— Alan Thicke
I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.
— Willie Mays
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
— Thorstein Veblen
Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.
— Ice Cube
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 did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.
— Roger Federer
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
That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
— John Madden
Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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
I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.
— Joe Namath
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
I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
— H. G. Bissinger
When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
— Carla Gugino
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
The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.
— David Icke
Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
— Dave Checketts
You know, I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.
— Sarah Shahi
American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.
— Noel Gallagher
My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
— Akshay Kumar
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?
— Norm MacDonald
Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.
— Daniel Kahneman
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
— Karisma Kapoor
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'
— Carroll Shelby
I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.
— Suresh Raina
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
— Bill Simmons
When I was a little kid growing up in Iceland, I always dreamed about creating something that could have an impact on the whole world, and even as a young boy I was passionate about fitness and sports.
— Magnus Scheving
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
— Norm MacDonald
I've always liked speed. I own a car that I shouldn't be talking about because I'm an environmentalist, but the 1955 Porsche Spyder 550 RS is the finest sports car ever made.
— Robert Redford
I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics.
— Vladimir Putin
Everyone thinks I'm this jock of a woman, but I didn't play any sports. I didn't even let my kids play baseball because I was afraid they were going to get hit by balls.
— Patti Hansen
Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.
— Richard Attias
'Potato-chip news' is news that's repetitive, requires little effort to absorb, and is consumable in massive quantities: true crime, natural disasters, political punditry, celebrity gossip, sports gossip, or endless photographs of beautiful houses, food, or clothes.
— Gretchen Rubin
I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.
— Michael Jordan
J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.
— Hannah Storm
Drama is played at the pace of chess... or billiards... or poker. Engrossing? Sure. But comedy is played at the jubilant, high-octane speed of sports like basketball or hockey.
— Mark Waters
Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.
— Brian O'Driscoll
I grew up a Michael Jordan fan; that was my first idol. But my true sports idol was Deion Sanders: he was the person I always wanted to be. I wanted to play two sports professionally, which would never happen, but to me, that was every kid's dream.
— Tim Howard
Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
— Carlos Slim
It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the presence of the other, the presence of art and beauty, which crude masculinity seems to discount, is essential. Real civilization and real manhood seem to me to include those.
— James Salter
I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.
— John Edgar Wideman
When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
— Kendall Jenner
For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.
— Kaley Cuoco
My becoming a film actor was more a twist of tale than a chosen course because I dared not to think I could ever become an actor. I couldn't even walk up on a stage and say 'Thank you' when we were to receive trophies at our sports meets at college.
— Dilip Kumar
I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment that's all it is. 
— Bud Grant
We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did in school is important. If we didn't handle that business then there were no privileges.
— Stephen Curry
Whatever free time I get, I love to catch news and sports shows.
— Amitabh Bachchan
I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I love sports.' What I also get are letters from a whole bunch of moms saying, 'My daughter is awesome,' and, 'My daughter is a great daughter.'
— J. J. Watt
Cleveland's a great city. I love the city. The people here are awesome. They're loyal and hard-working, and they're loyal to our sports scene, and things are changing here.
— Stipe Miocic
Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.
— Sarita Choudhury
The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing, and playing sports that rural people take pride in, but at the same time, I grew up really not wanting to hate anybody.
— Jason Isbell
I wanted to really ingrain myself in the culture and the people. And I apologize about having an allergy to dairy products that gives me some irritable bowels, but other than that, I mean, I've embraced just about everything else Wisconsin - especially when it comes to sports, but also the people and the interactions with our fans.
— Aaron Rodgers
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
— Dave Barry
Sports is human life in microcosm.
— Howard Cosell
In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
— Althea Gibson
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
It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
— Kenny Chesney
Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.
— Chris Klein
It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
— Richard Hammond
I wasn't into sports when I was younger. I was one of those kids who always tried to get a note from the doctor to say I had a cold so I didn't have to go play hockey in bad weather and be miserable.
— Eliza Doolittle
I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.
— Jason Statham
I'm a great sports fan, you know. I love to watch tennis and basketball and baseball and so on.
— Itzhak Perlman
When I played sports, if you lose the game, and then you complain, that makes you a sore loser. That doesn't make you protester - that just makes you a whiner.
— D. B. Sweeney
When I was a kid, I did many sports. Judo, like my dad, but also volleyball, handball, and gymnastics. We never played much football.
— Robert Lewandowski
As far as oligarchs who acquire sports team abroad, and invest money abroad, I wouldn't treat this phenomenon as something bad.
— Vladimir Putin
As an athlete and as a woman, I get my confidence from playing sports because it shifts your focus from what your body looks like to what your body can do for you. That's what we all should be doing. It shouldn't be about looking perfect.
— Venus Williams
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
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy writer, and she's at film school. I discouraged both of them early on from getting involved in Starbucks. I didn't think it would be fair; plus, they didn't have any interest anyway.
— Howard Schultz
If you're a dope like me, you get every sports channel you can get. I'm watching, you know, Netherlands soccer.
— Michael Keaton
What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and conditions, whereas entrepreneurs generally have little idea what they will encounter along the way.
— Naveen Jain
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
— Ice Cube
I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.
— George Vecsey
I have been president of the Indian Kabbadi Association, and likewise, I have been associated with various other sports as well.
— Sharad Pawar
I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.
— Bernie Mac
You never know what's going to happen with this crazy world of sports entertainment, so I would never rule out the fact that Rock wants to come home.
— Roman Reigns
One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.
— John Madden
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
My becoming an actor wasn't planned. My interest always lied in sports such as football, martial arts, gymnastics and dance.
— Tiger Shroff
When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.
— Andrew Luck
I drink a lot of Body Armor - it's a sports drink. It offers great hydration, and it's the best before/after drink for workouts. Orange mango is my favorite. Strawberry banana is a close second.
— Andrew Luck
If I ever have downtime, I'm usually sitting in my place playing video games. Or eating sandwiches somewhere, or watching sports some place.
— Hannibal Buress
There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency, and scoreless sports ties are boring.
— P. J. O'Rourke
When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
— P. J. O'Rourke
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
— Marilyn Monroe
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
— George Bernard Shaw
I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.
— Douglas Coupland
To have a healthy culture, you have to have stable health care financing and stable arts financing and stable sports financing, and if you don't have that, your culture becomes a parking lot.
— Douglas Coupland
Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.
— Elon Musk
I can't say this enough - the food that you put into your bodies can actually help you get better grades. And it can also affect your performance in sports and other activities too. You see, when you give your body the best possible fuel, you have more energy, you're stronger, you think more quickly.
— Michelle Obama
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
— Joel Osteen
When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.
— Joel Osteen
We don't see a lot of models for male social interaction. There's sports and barn raisings.
— Chuck Palahniuk
It was easy being healthy when I was young. I was full of energy, so sports and physical challenges were fun. But as I got older and the spring left my step, exercise became harder, and eating, drinking and watching TV became easier. By the time I was 50, I'd put on 50 pounds.
— Robert Kiyosaki
Well, I'm not a big sports fan.
— Jeff Bridges
Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.
— Kevin Hart
February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
— Penn Jillette
My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
— Penn Jillette
I wouldn't dream of watching motor racing, cycling, or golf - which aren't truly sports anyway.
— Howard Jacobson
I spend a little time every day to play sports.
— Vladimir Putin