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.”
“For guys playing sports at a high level, for money, I can't put my finger on it, but in a man's world of sport, there is something visceral to beating another man.”
-- Kurt Russell
“We want to encourage the young ones to learn and get some confidence in sports. It's fun and keeps you active and moving.”
-- Christine Taylor
“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.”
-- Carl Lewis
“That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.”
-- Bernhard Langer
“I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can't think of any I don't love. I've even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don't know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.”
-- Sean Astin
“As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.”
-- Robert Jay Lifton