Sports Quotes

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

I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately.

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

I'm a huge sports fan.

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.

Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Sports life is very short.

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

I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.

Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

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

Sports is the toy department of human life.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

You cannot mix sports with politics.