5,260 Quotes About Sports

In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip.

I find it surreal, then perfectly normal. I'm struck by how fast the surreal becomes the norm. I marvel at how unexciting it is to be famous, how mundane famous people are. They're confused, uncertain, insecure, and often hate what they do. It's something we always hear - like that old adage that money can't buy happiness-but we never believe it until we see it ourselves. Seeing it in 1992 brings me a new measure of confidence.

Rule #12: The correct number of bikes to own is N+1, where N is the number of bikes currently owned.

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

I don't get it. Basketball is so supremely boring. I can't understand the point of watching ten giants running from one end of the field--court--to the other throwing an orange ball through a hoop in the air. I guess it's better than golf, but so is watching paint dry.

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

The sports pages are men's pages, although they are not presented as such. /.../ On foreign fields, the men win their trophies, or lose their honour, doing battle on the nation's behalf. The readers, mainly men, are invited to see these male exploits in terms of the whole homeland, and, thus, men's concerns are presented as if defining the whole national honour.The parallel between sport and warfare seems obvious...