Sports Quotes

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.

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

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

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'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

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.

Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.

I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

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.

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

Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.

You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

Sports without music, it's nothing but a game. Music adds the emotion.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner.