Sports Quotes
“In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.”
“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.”
-- Grantland Rice
“We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.”
-- Calvin Klein
“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
-- Ernest Hemingway
“As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.”
-- James S. Coleman
“There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.”
-- Charles Spalding
“Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.”
-- Steve Kerr
“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.”
-- Demetri Martin
“It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.”
-- Richard Hammond