Sports Quotes
“When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull.”
“My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.”
-- Michael Sheen
“When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.”
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.”
-- Martina McBride
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
-- Wayne Gretzky
“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.”
-- Michael Keaton
“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.”
-- Bob Hope