Top 1200 Short Sports Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I have always been into all kinds of sports, and have blended acting with sports.

You all know Newt Gingrich. Newt is short for Newton. People say if that's the case, what is Mitt short for? It's short for 'Mittens.'

By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd; The sports of children satisfy the child.

Sports are my passion. They have been since I was a kid. So I think I'll be involved in sports in some capacity no matter what I do.

Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

Maybe God brought me here to inspire the youth to engage in sports and teach them the value of sports.

I'm the biggest sports fan there is, I love sports, but I'm still convinced that it's teachers who deserve the big salaries, not athletes.

Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports.

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

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

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.

Of course sports and politics intersect, and those conversations belong, more than anywhere else, on a network devoted to sports.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.

My father very early on had both short and long-term strategies in his approach to raising his children, so my father was disturbed by the extent to which I was interested in both hip-hop and sports.

There is lots of enthusiasm among youth of Haryana about sports. They have potential in sports.

Deion Sanders played two sports, and Bo Jackson played two sports. I'm not athletic enough to do two sports, but I think I'm good enough to do two professions and do them pretty well at a high level.

Governments getting involved in sports activities would ultimately damage sports.

The great Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il, putting forward the development of sports as a matter that has an important bearing on the prosperity of the country and nation, indicated the road ahead of the Juche-based sports and wrote a new chapter in the history of building a sports power by dint of outstanding ideas and leadership.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.

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

I've been playing team sports since I could walk... so anything sports-related story is always fun for me.

We want to find a way to be an environmental leader in motor sports, as well as in sports in general.

You know, episodic TV directing is a very long and arduous job. You have very short schedules, short short shooting days, and you have to get lot of pages done.

First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.

I'm not an agate type ESPN Sports Center highlight, in-your-face kind of a sports fan.

Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down... go down swinging, singing, and loving.

Listen: I love sports and my family loves sports.

Talking about and analyzing sports isn't the same as playing sports.

I think of sports writers as mediating between two worlds. Athletes probably think of sports writers as not macho enough. And people in high culture probably think of sports writers as jocks or something. They are in an interestingly complex position in which they have to mediate the world of body and the world of words.

Iran has been strong in individual sports like wrestling, judo and weightlifting, but we have never excelled at team sports.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

I'm a big sports history buff. I love sports.

Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair.

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.

At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports.

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me.

I was a creative kid; I wasn't really into sports, and sports in the South are a pretty big deal. It's like a religion down there.

If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.

If something touches on the world of sports, ESPN has never told me that I cannot discuss a sports-related matter.

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.

I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.