Sports Quotes
“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
“A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.”
-- Kim Alexis
“We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.”
-- Jurgen Klinsmann
“I think the Cowboys are one of only two teams in all of sports that engender love and hate to that extreme. The other is the Yankees. You love the Yankees or you hate the Yankees.”
-- Al Michaels
“Cheerleading gave me a love of sports, which I brought to the Senate. I can talk to the good ol' boys about college sports because I follow it like they do.”
-- Kay Bailey Hutchison
“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.”
-- Samuel Richardson
“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
-- John Leonard