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Sports Quotes

I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we’d just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.

– Sam Bradford

And I watch ‘Saturday Night Live’ religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

– Ty Burrell

I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn’t the greatest sports person.

– Tim Burton

My favorite was always whichever sport was in season. I think these days it’s almost saddening to see kids who are 10 or 11 and are forced to choose one sport and specialize in that sport and play that sport year-round. By playing different sports… you become a better all-around athlete.

– Sam Bradford

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

– Teddy Sears

What’s been missing from regions outside of Silicon Valley is a ‘playbook.’ In American football, a playbook contains a sports team’s strategies and plays. It struck me that every region needs its own industry playbook on how to compete globally.

– Steve Blank

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

– Steven Chu

My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn’t feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.

– Viswanathan Anand

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

– Sandy Koufax

I don’t gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

– Stanley Ho

At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.

– Willie Mays

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

– William James

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

– Sebastian Vettel

I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.

– Taylor Lautner

I have been president of the Indian Kabbadi Association, and likewise, I have been associated with various other sports as well.

– Sharad Pawar

I feel that schools and corporates should help the government in popularising sports in the country. Blaming the government for every sporting debacle will not be fair.

– Viswanathan Anand

How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.

– Vladimir Putin

I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It’s a quick study.

– William Clay Ford, Sr.

My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I’ve tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.

– Vern Buchanan

As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can’t express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.

– Yael Naim

Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports – we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.

– Samina Baig

Sports isn’t just a part of life. It’s not life itself.

– Stedman Graham

I’ve been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

– Tim Ryan

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women’s sports have arrived.

– Sheryl Swoopes

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

– Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.

– Ty Cobb

I think money in general hurts all sports.

– Will McDonough

I’m a runner from sports. I’ve been a runner, but I wasn’t a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

– Scott Bakula

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

– Steve Garvey

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

– Warren Spahn

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