Sports Quotes
“I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.”
“The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.”
-- Lawrence Schiller
“Growing up in the time of Title IX - it was passed when I was 10 - I got a front-row seat to so many great moments in women's sports. Of course I didn't know it at the time.”
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.”
-- Joe Garagiola
“I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.”
-- Christopher Atkins
“But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.”
-- Drew Carey