Sports Quotes

“One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.”

-- Al Kaline

“I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.”

-- Jerry Ferrara

“All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.”

-- Pierre de Coubertin

“By the time I was 8 years old, sports had pretty much taken over my life.”

-- Michael Bergin

“All sports for all people.”

-- Pierre de Coubertin

“I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.”

-- Shaun White

“I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.”

-- Jessica Biel

“It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.”

-- Neil Peart

“I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.”

-- Harlan Coben

“Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.”

-- James E. Rogers