High school sports: where lessons of life are still being learned, and where athletes still compete for the love of the game and their teammates. — Michael Powers
Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship. — George Will
Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up. — Tinker Hatfield
Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership. — Daley Thompson
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
The glory of sport is witnessing a well-coached team perform as a single unit, striving for a common goal and ultimately bringing distinction to the jersey the players represent. — Dick Vitale
Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. — Joe Namath
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix
Sports for me is when a guy walks off the court, and you really can't tell whether he won or lost, when he carries himself with pride either way. — Jim Courier
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight
Short Sports Movie Quotes
Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field. — Juliana Hatfield
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game — Tessa Bonhomme
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. — John Wooden
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. — Joe Garagiola
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. — William Landay
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches. — Mark Rippetoe
Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions! — Herb Brooks
Sports Movie Image Quotes
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. — Kevin Costner
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
Favorite Sports Movie Quotes
The Princess Bride is one of my favorite movies, of all time. — Ivana Milicevic
My favorite sports movies, I like 'Remember the Titans' and 'Hoosiers' Jimmy Chitwood, from the corner. — Shaun Alexander
One of my favorite movies of all time is Fargo. — Cameron Monaghan
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite. — Mark Cuban
I have lots of favorites movies. I say this only because it's a favorite movie because it's a sport I love. I'm a huge baseball fan. There are movies I like as much as this, but I sort of single this movie out because I'm a baseball nut, and that's 'Field of Dreams.' — Rick Santorum
Sports Entertainment Quotes
People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well. — Jensen Huang
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money. — John W. Henry
The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. — Herb Brooks
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Babe Ruth
In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else. — Ric Flair
This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! — Herb Brooks
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. — Kevin Costner
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig
And I say, 'Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know.' And he says, 'Oh, uh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice. — Bill Murray
Before every shot, I go to the movies — Jack Nicklaus
If you go to school and practice for five days a week, it still gives you two days you can go and see your friends, you can go to the movies, you do whatever you like to do. — Ivan Lendl
Growing up in Oklahoma, there wasn't much to do. Play sports, do a lot of drugs, or read and watch movies, which is what I did. — Bill Hader
I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities. — Kevin Costner
I'm not interested in popular culture. I hate Quentin Tarantino. I rarely go to movies. I hate rock 'n' roll. I work. I think. I listen to classical music. I brood. I like sports cars. — James Ellroy
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. — Rip Torn
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. — Brooklyn Decker
I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports. — Rachel Griffiths
I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly. — Bipasha Basu
I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor. — Chuck Lorre
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. — Sutton Foster
When you do a movie the clock is ticking. It's like a sport. — Benicio Del Toro
There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards. — Don King
The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract. — Carl "Spider" Lockhart
How to be the best that you can be — Meg Cabot
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies. — Sean William Scott
That's why I'm such a big sports fan, with sports you can never guess what's gonna happen. Most movies you get halfway through and you can kind of guess the ending. — Michael Douglas
I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally. — Callie Khouri
Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball. — Tom Hanks
Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free! — Dan Millman
Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more. — Christopher Judge
The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc. — Lindsey Shaw
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways. — Roland Emmerich
I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. — Kevin Costner
I watch movies and sports. I can count on the fingers of my hand the number of times I have watched an hour show. I never watch a half-hour show, and I never watch myself. — William Shatner
Sports became a way for me to find my personality and identity in life. I had a lot of problems as a young kid like we all do with my own confidence, trying to grow up, and become a man and whatnot. Sports helped me get there. It helped me get my role in Rocky IV. It has helped me ever since in my movies and dealing with a lot of hard times between pictures and my life. I would say it's the one thing that's kept me going over the years. — Dolph Lundgren
In the beginning there was not even talking. In movies, there was no need for that. Because it was more evident if there was no talking. Only in sports does there remain this fervor, which can even become violent. There's this desire to see something big. — Jean-Luc Godard
When I need to relax, I love to go to the movies or watch a good TV series. I also practice a lot of sport, mostly tennis and swimming. — Delphine Arnault
Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff? — Curtis Hanson
A lot of times people would offer me movies and, because I'm a car freak, I'd look in a magazine and say, 'How much is this car? If you give me this car I'll show up and do the movie' I call 'em 'sports car flicks'. — Ice T
You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond). — Christopher Reeve
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