5,260 Quotes About Sports

Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.

I definitely felt like I made the most of my opportunity. I feel like I really don't have anything else to prove in the minor leagues.

I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.

I thought when I got in the lineup down the stretch I played all right. We just made mistakes at bad times. It's got to be very frustrating for everyone.

I think that, generally, you need to live with your sport 24 hours a day.

You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.

Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.

I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.

I think it is high time that Europe starts to understand that we do not rule the world anymore, and that some former European imperial powers can no longer impress their will on to others in far away places, and we must accept that football has moved away from being a European and South American sport: it has become the World Sport that billions of fans are excitedly following every week, everywhere in the world.