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Sports Quotes


"I think about the next season right away."


"I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring."


"You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent."


"One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator."


"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."


"A great catch is like watching girls go by the last one you see is always the prettiest."


"As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists."


"Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way."


"A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult."


"A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind."


"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players."


"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."


"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."


"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."


"Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days."


"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."


"EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world."


"What a ball from Frank. Frank and I go back years. He used to do that when I was at Ajax."


"I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns."


"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."


"I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years."


"The one thing you can't do when you're highly ranked is relax."


"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing."


"Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are."


"The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed."


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