Sports Quotes

"At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage."

"At the end of the day, everything is God's plan, and he cares about what we do. He cares about our hearts, how we play the game, and how we treat people. He's definitely involved with how we handle sports and not just the outcome of it. I'm proud when athletes mention God in any way."

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins."

"Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it's also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate."

"Boxing has become America's tragic theater."

"Boxing is a celebration of the lost religion of masculinity all the more trenchant for its being lost."

"Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing."

"But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out."

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"Continuity is important in sports."

"Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain."

"Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes."

"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."

"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."

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

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers."

"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."

"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."

"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."

"Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness."

"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."

"Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do."

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

"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."

"I always wanted to be a sports broadcaster."

"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."

"I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever."

"I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world."

"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."

"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

"I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense."

"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."

"I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights."

"I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end, you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world."

"I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on."

"I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports."

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles."

"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."

"I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy."

"I think, in general, not only in Formula One but just in a lot of sports, when younger people come in and they do well, there's always a bit of talk going on. I think that's pretty normal."

"I wanted to use sports for social change."

"I wasn't picked for any of the sports teams at school because I was half the size of everyone else, but now everyone assumes I must have been some sort of rugby player."

"I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports."

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out."

"I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more."

"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."

"I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day."