Sports Quotes

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

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.

Part of my growing up was always trying to make my parents proud and always trying to keep them happy. I think part of what held them together was my involvement in sports.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pi

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

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.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.

That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.

I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.

I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!

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.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.

I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care.

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

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play 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.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.