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Sports Quotes


"I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games."


"As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing."


"But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen."


"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."


"I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out."


"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear."


"There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East."


"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."


"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game."


"To hang out in a gay bar or put on a sequined halter top makes me feel like a total person."


"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry."


"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me."


"Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity."


"We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto."



"I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level."


"I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before."


"Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart."


"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."


"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area."



"After taking temporary charge last season he took us from looking down at the fringes of another relegation scrap, to within a kick of getting into Europe."


"I'll never play at Wembley again, unless I play at Wembley again."


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