Sports Quotes

“There's steps that I've taken already, and each week, talking with the sports psychologist on a routine basis and working with the different programs that we're going through. This is all stuff that you can say you're going to make a difference, but I'm putting it into action.”

-- Kurt Busch

“Swimming is one of the hardest sports.”

-- Stephanie Rice

“All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.”

-- Meyer Lansky

“I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.”

-- Rory McIlroy

“But I was very much into sports when I was a child.”

-- Eva Herzigova

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

-- A. Bartlett Giamatti

“I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'”

-- Zac Efron

“If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.”

-- Dean Martin

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”

-- George Bernard Shaw

“Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.”

-- Ron Blomberg