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Sports Quotes
"The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior."
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"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."
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"We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat."
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"The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team."
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"You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement."
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"These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes."
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"I share their frustration at times and I get down just like them when we suffer a bad result."
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"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."
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"The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously."
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"As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game."
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"I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports."
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"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."
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"There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
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"I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program."
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"If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line."
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"I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12."
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"To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first."
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"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt."
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"Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil."
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"I have seen games on Xbox 360 and HD TV and I'm amazed at how realistic the players look."
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"My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club."
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"When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking."
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"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield."
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"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry."
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"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me."
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"I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa."
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"The two championship years were that significant for me."
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"We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto."
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"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."
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"When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs."
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"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking."
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"So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing."
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"My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me."
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