sports quotes

February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned.

Contrary to popular belief, I don’t spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I’ve learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that’s what kids are playing. That’s what people are talking about.

I’m committed to the fight game.

If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would hurt the gate.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won’t have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Volleyball, I could be pretty good. After a few practices I could be that striker, or whatever they call it.

In my heart, I am always a Raider.

Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.

I was so used to going out and winning state championships and playing in the postseason.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

I am a professional sportswriter, among other things, and I take the games seriously. It is only one of my many powerful addictions, and I don’t mind admitting any of them.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory… And why not? Victory is good for you, and don’t let anybody tell you different.

Eventually you won’t think of ‚the Internet business.‘ You’ll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn’t clear.

No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson’s. There’s no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

Joe Frazier got hit more than me – and he doesn’t have Parkinson’s.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

There’s many ups and downs in the fight game.

I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband.

A coach, especially at a college level – much more at a college or high school level, than at a pro level – you’re more of a teacher than an actual coach.

Cage Warriors is a brilliant organisation. They’re doing great things for European MMA, and they’re giving the platform for guys like me who came through. They’re vital. I’m forever grateful for the opportunities I got.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

Baseball is a universe as large as life itself, and therefore all things in life, whether good or bad, whether tragic or comic, fall within its domain.

I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it – and I may come back.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

If I hit a man, his head is gonna go into the bleachers.

Maybe the ones burning my jersey were never LeBron fans anyway.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

Duke is an ugly word in Kentucky. Nothing in the world compares to the joy of beating those hateful swine from Duke.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

An agent won’t help you get drafted higher, won’t make you win more games, and won’t make you faster or stronger.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

Louis van Gaal is one of the most successful managers in the world.

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.

The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

If it wasn’t for baseball, I’d be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Football coaches don’t have real problems.

I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

Winning the title in England is the biggest challenge of them all.

What the ISL has done is create the hype and buzz around football that it very badly needs.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

Ordinarily, players fine-tune their match-fitness during the pre-season.

If you made me the national commissioner of football, I’d tell you one thing that I would mandate. The second Saturday in September, we’re going to have conference day. Everybody from the SEC plays a Big 12 team. Everybody from the Big Ten is going to play the ACC. Everybody from the Big East is going to play the Pac-10.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

I get a little bit emotional during a game!

The more players I have, the more difficult choices there are for me, but the better it is for LFC.

I’m really a normal football manager.

If I’d just tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around .600.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

There is something special which rides on a game between Liverpool and United.

You cannot mix sports with politics.