Sports Quotes

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.

I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.

I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.

I find interesting characters or lessons that resonate with people and sometimes I write about them in the sports pages, sometimes I write them in a column, sometimes in a novel, sometimes a play or sometimes in nonfiction. But at the core I always say to myself, 'Is there a story here? Is this something people want to read?'

ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.

All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!

I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously.

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

I work out, I play sports, I go to concerts.

I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

I hate the cliche of 'just have fun,' but what I've seen in today's sports, especially with parents, is they put so much pressure on the kids.