Sports Quotes

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. (Earl Warren)
Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
Sports became a favorite subject of reflection and will soon be the only way of thinking. View quote
Vasily Klyuchevsky
All sports are time control demonstrations. View quote
Buckminster Fuller
Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball. View quote
Magic Johnson
There are only three sports bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering all the rest are merely games. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd The sports of children satisfy the child. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To me, torture would be watching sports on television. View quote
Quentin Tarantino
He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty. View quote
William Blake
It is probably true that business corrupts everything it touches. It corrupts politics, sports, literature, art, labor unions and so on. but business also corrupts and undermines monolithic totalitarianism. Capitalism is at its liberating best in a noncapitalist environment. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. (Dave Barry)
All sports for all people. View quote
Pierre de Coubertin
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. View quote
James Surowiecki
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports. View quote
Billie Jean King
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports. View quote
Martina Hingis
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time. View quote
Andrew Shue
That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. View quote
Bernhard Langer
I also watched a lot of football and sports. I haven't had much time to watch too much TV lately. View quote
Casper Van Dien
I like all the adventure sports but I like to do them in a safe way. View quote
Catherine Bell
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero. View quote
Dick Schaap
We all know that girls who compete in sports perform better in school, are physically healthier and have a stronger self-esteem. (Louise Slaughter)
I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. View quote
Lynn Redgrave
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. View quote
Omar Epps
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. View quote
Verne Troyer
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports. View quote
Vince Carter