Sports Quotes
“That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.”
“One of the things in the back of my mind is that, after my sports experience, I never want to be, totally consumed by any one endeavor, other than my family life.”
-- Julius Erving
“Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”
-- Phil Knight
“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.”
-- Billie Jean King
“No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.”
-- Curtis Joseph
“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.”
-- Will Rogers
“I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.”
-- Claudio Reyna