Sports Quotes

Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

Ron Blomberg

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

Russell Baker

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Rodney Dangerfield

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

Raymond E. Feist

If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.

Richard Ford

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost

I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.

Roger Federer

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Ron Fairly

Sport is not my thing.

Rupert Friend

I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.

Retief Goosen

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

Retief Goosen

Traveling around, it's difficult to follow much TV. Mainly I'm somebody who watches sports.

Retief Goosen

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.

Ronald Graham

When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.

Rube Goldberg

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

Robert Griffin III

We don't have sports tickets, we don't have corporate jets. We don't have stadiums named after us.

Richard Kinder

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

Roger Kahn

Femininity and sport can go together.

Rebecca Lobo

As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton