Sports Quotes
“One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.”
“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