Sports Quotes

“I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.”

-- Temple Grandin

“Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?”

-- Al Boliska

“Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.”

-- Jim Sensenbrenner

“If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”

-- Jack Lemmon

“I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.”

-- Gregg Easterbrook

“To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.”

-- Jerry West

“Sports life is very short.”

-- Sergei Bubka

“I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.”

-- Billy Corgan

“I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.”

-- George J. Mitchell

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”

-- Mia Hamm