“I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.”
Sports compress the entire human drama — triumph, failure, teamwork, rivalry — into a format with clear rules and a definite ending. These quotes come from athletes, coaches, and fans who understand that games reveal character.
“I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.”
“I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.”
“But I was very much into sports when I was a child.”
“I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.”
“I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.”
“I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.”
“There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.”
“Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.”
“I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.”
“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
“I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.”
“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.”
“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.”
“Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.”
“The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.”
“There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.”