Sports Quotes

“I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.”

-- Michael Keaton

“I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.”

-- Jerry Ferrara

“All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.”

-- Pierre de Coubertin

“By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.”

-- Michael Bergin

“All sports for all people.”

-- Pierre de Coubertin

“I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.”

-- Shaun White

“I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.”

-- Jessica Biel

“It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.”

-- Neil Peart

“I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.”

-- Harlan Coben

“Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.”

-- James E. Rogers