Quotes about Sports

Sports don't build character; they reveal it.

Sports provide us with dangerous metaphors. A sporting contest is a contest: a game of winners and losers.

Football is all very well a good game for rough girls, but not for delicate boys.

Next to religion, baseball has furnished a greater impact on American life than any other institution

Sport is a preserver of health.

I have a much greater ambition to be the best racket player than the best prose writer.

So many times in today's society, we can put football No. 1. And I've done it in my life at certain times. You put football number one, this game is more important than anything else. Well, really, it's not. It's just a game.

My mom's whole side of the family, they're all Packers fans. My mom's a Bears fan. My stepdad is a Vikings guy. So that gets ugly. My mom sits upstairs watching the Bears game; he sits in the basement. They can't watch it together. Football's a violent anger in our family dynamic.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.