694 private quotes tagged sports

“I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.” — Matt Walsh

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“Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.” — Phil Simms

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“I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.” — Steve Fossett

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“Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.” — Avery Brundage

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“The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.” — Avery Brundage

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“I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.” — Mike O'Malley

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“It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.” — William Sloane Coffin, Jr.

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“The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.” — Paul Fussell

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“I really think more fledgling novelists - and many current and even established novelists - should get out into the real world and cover local politics, sports, culture, and crime and write it up on deadline.” — C. J. Box

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“There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.” — Dietrich Mateschitz

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“When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.” — Dietrich Mateschitz

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“I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.” — Bob Hayes

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“I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.” — Bob Beamon

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“I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.” — Jack Brickhouse

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“I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!” — Jay Ryan

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“I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.” — Gabriel Basso

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“When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him.” — Shia LaBeouf

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“Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.” — Mitt Romney

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“We've just got to be careful - with all sports, let alone cricket - I think there's so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.” — Shane Warne

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