Top 1200 Professional Sports Quotes & Sayings

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

That's why esports is so awesome: it's just like professional sports.

As the longest-running women's professional sports league in the country, the WNBA is a great product comprising 132 of the best female athletes in the world. And when you look beyond the players to owners, coaches, trainers, accountants, and chief operating officers - it's a wonderful example of what women can achieve in sports and in business.

I love how professional sports unite a city and a group of people.

When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

I operated a professional football team in L.A. By no means was it the NFL, but I understand what it takes on some level to build and operate a professional sports enterprise in Los Angeles.

Many top professional sportsmen from different sports see a psychologist.

I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

I don't think it is difficult to balance professional sports with practising your faith. It is very easy if you follow the right path.

We love professional sports in this country. We love college sports in this country.

Professional sports is a business.

The NBA has been extraordinary in its use and embrace of social media; they are by far the leader in professional sports.

I most certainly believe that when you're an athlete, that really translates to all sports. You just understand it, your body understands it, and your mind understands it. And you just - it just clicks. I've found that happening when I play other sports. I've seen it, like when I've hit the ball with other professional athletes, and you can see they're just learning so quickly. It's just something that's in their blood. So I think it was in my parents' blood and they understood.

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.

Professional sports have built themselves on the celebration of Americana, the ideas and values that best exemplify America.

If I learned one thing by playing professional hockey for thirty-two years, it's that you have to love what you do. And that's not just true for sports.

In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

At 15-years-old, I always wanted to do professional wrestling, and at 15, I started training as a professional wrestler. It was always the plan to become an entertainer, a sports entertainer.

There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family...

That's the one regret I have in all the years that I've played professional sports, that I didn't win a championship in the N.F.L. And that's why you play on any level of team sports: you want to win a championship as part of a team.

Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

I've never had to make weight for any sport before. Because, get this, I was not allowed to do any sports in school because I was a professional athlete. I was doing wrestling at the age of 15, so the school districts and the board of directors said that because I was a professional athlete that I couldn't do anything.

David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.

That you get booed belongs to professional sports.

In any professional sports, in general, the community and the team go hand and hand.

In professional sports, you live in the moment, and that's what I love about it.

The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

Sports federations must try to be professional in trying to market their sport.

Who is a professional? A professional is someone who has a combination of competence, confidence and belief. A water diviner is a professional. A traditional midwife is a professional. A traditional bone setter is a professional. These are professionals all over the world. You find them in any inaccessible village around the world.

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.

I would encourage people to participate in sports. You don't have to dream of being an Olympic or a professional athlete.

I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete - I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

I was a judo athlete, while taking modeling as my side job, before I eventually quit my professional sports career over a knee injury.

I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

I could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages.

Now as I got older, it wasn't just that I want to be a pro in two sports, I want to be successful at the professional level in two sports. Obviously, I'm still working to attain that. Especially in basketball.

I think the American sports culture has the idea that professional athletes need so much, like flying private planes, which obviously we don't, but that's the American sports culture when they think of the NFL and the NBA.

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

As a passionate sports fan, as well as an athlete, I am excited to be a part of CBS Sports Network's historic sports-focused program hosted entirely by women, especially at a time when the influence of women in sports has evolved to where it is today.

Sports is so hard for me to wrap my head around. I never played any sports, I don't watch any sports, I hardly know the rules to any sporting event. Really, I'm borderline mentally damaged when it comes to sports.

Because of the standing in society, because women's basketball does not draw the interest that major professional sports leagues or men's college basketball draw, Geno Auriemma is never going to be recited by the sports fan at-large as the greatest coach in history.

What you want to do, particularly when you're dealing with a professional sports league and franchises and people's passionate commitment to the game and for the team they root for is, it has to be sustainable.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

In professional wrestling, I'm sure in combat sports, there's always gonna be testosterone.

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

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.

To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

When you look at the team that Jimmy Rutherford has put together and the players that he has, this is just a great story of excellent in professional sports.