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.”
“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.”
-- Michael Jordan
“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”
-- Red Auerbach
“And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.”
-- Beau Bridges
“Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.”
-- Kirsty Gallacher
“The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.”
-- Michael Mandelbaum