Sports Quotes

I was so afraid to make mistakes and get reprimanded by my coaches that the joy of the sport started slipping away.

Dominique Moceanu

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

Dirk Nowitzki

I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.

Danny Pudi

Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.

Deepika Padukone

Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for may...

Dan Rather

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

Dennis Rodman

There is so much hypocrisy in sports.

Dennis Rodman

BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

Donny Robinson

I'm aware that the World Cup is probably the greatest spectacle in the world of sport, and that's despite the referees that have been found to have fixed games specifically.

David Stern

All I can say is you don't know what's going to be on the front page of tomorrow's newspaper. So I take no joy in what happens to another sport, whether it's about a perfect game or an issue of conduct.

David Stern

I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier.

Dick Schaap

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

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.

Dick Schaap

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad.

Dinah Shore

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

Derek Theler

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Dave Winfield

I was quite fat as a kid. And swimming is a sport you can enjoy whatever size you are. If you're fat, running is a pain. I'm not really built for running.

David Walliams

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Don Yaeger

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

Don Yaeger

I don't cheer for anyone because my job is obviously more important, but the reason why I got into sports is because of my father. He's a giant sports fan and we are from New England, so he cheered for the Celtics and the Red Sox.

Erin Andrews

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Ed Bradley