Sports Quotes

You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I ...

Isla Fisher

L.A. is so focused on TV and film that theater is kind of an arcane sport. People look at you like you're doing something cute.

Israel Horovitz

If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.

Ivan Lendl

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

Ivan Lendl

If you have the athletic ability, why waste it in one sport?

Isaiah Mustafa

When I came to America in 1978, I was a huge sports fan - the problem was, my sport was cricket. Shockingly enough, no one wanted to talk cricket with me!

Indra Nooyi

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Irwin Shaw

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

Irwin Winkler

I don't pay much attention to sports.

Jack Abramoff

I've always wanted to skate. If and when I decide to retire... I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

Jeremy Abbott

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.

Joe Adcock

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

Jack Benny

I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

Jack Brickhouse

I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.

Jason Bateman

L.A. will never be a hockey town. I'm a huge hockey fan, and people out here do not appreciate hockey as much as they should. I've always been into it. I'm Canadian; that's my sport for sure.

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

Jeff Bridges

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

Jenna Bush

Don't try to tell Namath's people on First Avenue about Babe Ruth, because they don't even know the name. In fact, with the young, you can forget all of baseball. The sport is gone. But if you ever have seen Ruth, and then you see Namath, you know th...

Jimmy Breslin

There will soon be streams of data coming from all manner of products - appliances, clothing, sporting goods, you name it. Wouldn't you rather live in a world where you can export the data from your son's football helmet to a new app that monitors fo...

John Battelle

I played sports in high school and in college.

Jon Bernthal

Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Julian Baggini