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.”
“My dad told us up front, 'Guys, if you want to play sports, go ahead, but it's your decision.'”
-- Peyton Manning
“Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.”
-- Ian Botham
“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.”
-- Thorstein Veblen
“I always loved the way music made me feel. I did sports at school and all, but when I got home, it was just music. Everybody in my neighborhood loved music. I could jump the back fence and be in the park where there were ghetto blasters everywhere.”
-- Dr. Dre
“I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.”
-- Michael Michele