Sports Quotes

Fighting in the air is not a sport. It is scientific murder.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

Eddie Rickenbacker

A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leag...

Eliot Spitzer

Always looked up to Brian and his skating, I loved his skating and what he had done for the sport. And the triple axel, that was the thing, and I wanted a triple axel.

Elvis Stojko

You look at boxing being an international, world-famous sport, right up there next with soccer, and there's only two fighters the people want to see fight. Two little fellows, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather.

Emanuel Steward

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

Emma Stone

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

Ed Skrein

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Earl Warren

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Emma Watson

I really appreciate the sport background because the structure and the discipline that that gives a person is incredible, and it just carries with you wherever you go.

Estella Warren

Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world.

Esther Williams

The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages.

Esther Williams

I played baseball, and that's pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so that's why I prob...

Eric Williams

For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

Fernando Alonso

I am very proud of what we have built in Spain, because it is not a traditional Formula 1 country. I think we have found passionate fans, and built up a strong culture for the sport - and things are improving every day, with more and more people gett...

Fernando Alonso

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world.

Frank Bruno

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Frank Bruno

If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

Fran Drescher

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

Duke Ellington

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

Frank Gifford

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

Florence Griffith Joyner