“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”

“I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.”

“Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.”

“Swimming is one of the hardest sports.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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.'”

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

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

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

“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.”

“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.”

“I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.”

“I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.”

“And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.”

“Sports broadcasting is very open now. In the beginning you did encounter more traditional attitudes and get comments. But I'm talking about 12 years ago.”

“The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.”

“I play sports.”

“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.”