Sports Quotes
“I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.”
“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