“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.”

“My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.”

“I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.”

“I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.”

“What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.”

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.”

“They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.”

“I'm an English boy. I played a lot of sports growing up, but I never had any kind of workout regimen.”

“The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.”

“Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.”

“I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.”

“We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.”

“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.”

“I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.”

“I was an All-American in wrestling in high school, was National Champion in Chinese kickboxing in 1999 and have spent a lot of time around professional athletes, which includes my eight-plus years as CEO of a sports nutrition company.”

“If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.”

“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”

“I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.”

“At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.”

“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”

“Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.”