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I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.
Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
We trifle with, make sport of, and despise those who are attached to us, and follow those that fly from us.
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.
I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.
Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.
I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.
There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.
I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.
There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.
Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.
Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.
The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.
Sports provides that tool kit to be successful in life. Because it's not always going to be smooth sailing.
Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
I don't know, but I stepped on a scale that gives fortunes and the card read Come back in 15 minutes alone.
I know more about sports than I know about any other subject, unfortunately. I'm embarrassed to admit that.
The farther I go East in the U.S. the more I get recognized because of more sports crazy the East Coast is.
You're only as good as your last fight. It's just the way things are. It's the way that the sport is built.
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well.
Most people get excited about games, but I've got to be excited about practice, because that's my classroom.
Brooklyn was the most wonderful city a man could play in, and the fans there were the most loyal there were.
Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.
The rigid volunteer rules of right and wrong in sports are second only to religious faith in moral training.
Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.
Over there, Kevin McHale, I feel like I'm talking to someone I know. It's just a total different atmosphere.
This must be how the guys in Space Jam felt when MJ gave them their powers back through that old basketball.
The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.
I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.
Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.
The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports.
My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.
One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.
My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.
I am still very much rooted in what I really fell in love with, with sports entertainment and pro wrestling.
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.
Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?
I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.
I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
I am not interested in medals or titles. I dont need them. I need the love of the public and I fight for it.