Sports Quotes
“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.”
“My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.”
-- Michael Sheen
“When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.”
-- Jackie Joyner-Kersee
“In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.”
-- Martina McBride
“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
-- Wayne Gretzky
“I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.”
-- Michael Keaton
“If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.”
-- Bob Hope