All Quotes

Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
‐‐ Avery Brundage

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
‐‐ Pierre de Coubertin

Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
‐‐ Cara Black

Sport's hard: the margin between winning and losing is tiny.
‐‐ Hannah Mills

Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.
‐‐ Philip Kerr

Sport was an integral part of school life. The most influential teachers were not necessarily the PE teachers, but the teachers who helped me in sport because they had an understanding of what you were going through.
‐‐ Sebastian Coe

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.
‐‐ Delta Goodrem

Sporting achievements bestow a sense of unification on the cultures and societies in which they take place and create an outpouring of nationalism and pride.
‐‐ Richard Attias

Sporting competitions seem to be what we obsess over, frankly. So if we can put engineering, science, technology into a format of healthy, fun competition, we can attract all sorts of kids that might not see the kind of activity we do as accessible or rewarding.
‐‐ Dean Kamen

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.
‐‐ Gagan Narang

Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.
‐‐ Richard Attias

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.
‐‐ Bob Uecker

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.
‐‐ Mike May

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
‐‐ Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.
‐‐ Lynn Swann

Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.
‐‐ Harsha Bhogle

Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
‐‐ George Stroumboulopoulos

Sports and politics don't mix.
‐‐ Eric Heiden

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
‐‐ Venus Williams

Sports are a microcosm of society.
‐‐ Billie Jean King

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
‐‐ Larry King

Sports are not for everyone.
‐‐ Dante Hall

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.
‐‐ Jack Kent Cooke

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

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
‐‐ Kobe Bryant

Sports are the ultimate secular religion. Instead of being worried about whether your kids will be okay or how your job is going, you have your team, and you can focus all of your angst and your hopes and dreams on your team. I am in no way saying it always relieves any of this!
‐‐ Alex Gibney

Sports betting is all about money management, so the most money won on one event is not the most important thing.
‐‐ Bruce Dern

Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.
‐‐ Kirsty Gallacher

Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
‐‐ Dana Hussein

Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.
‐‐ Franz von Holzhausen

Sports commentating is the answer for a restless brain like mine. I can never get bored because there is an infinite amount to know.
‐‐ Clare Balding

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
‐‐ Heywood Broun

Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for.
‐‐ Michael Wilbon

Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
‐‐ John Travolta

Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them and demand they fly too close to the sun for our amusement. We send them into the arena for an exhausting three-setter, an 18-hole playoff, a 200th lap. The burnout factor is insurmountable.
‐‐ Kevin Bleyer

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.
‐‐ Dave Checketts

Sports formed me. I was always decently skilled but lacked size, so I had to resort to using my skill versus my power. I strategically play golf because that's all I can do. It's the same on the basketball court. I try to get open and shoot it. Or I use the open space on the soccer field.
‐‐ Zach Johnson

Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.
‐‐ Jerry Jones

Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.
‐‐ John Madden

Sports has kept me on the straight and narrow path.
‐‐ Tommy Lasorda

Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.
‐‐ Izabel Goulart

Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
‐‐ Irene Rosenfeld

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.
‐‐ Mia Hamm

'Sports Illustrated' does extremely minimal retouching. Other publications, however... phew. They do a lot; I've watched myself be Photoshopped before. It. Is. The. Worst.
‐‐ Christine Teigen

Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.
‐‐ Taufik Hidayat

Sports is a bunch of people gathering around, watching something that they're not actually connected to - they're just emotionally connected.
‐‐ George Stroumboulopoulos

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
‐‐ Bill Bradley