Sports Quotes
“I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.”
“One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.”
-- Hugh Jackman
“When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy.”
-- Anna Chlumsky
“The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.”
-- J. Philippe Rushton
“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”
-- George Brett