Sports Quotes - Page 142

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Talk radio has almost ruined the sports fan.

My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

Basketball is a sport that involves the subtle interweaving of players at full speed to the point where they are thinking and moving as one.

If your team is going to win, you need to play better than the other quarterback.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

I was born on the day Lincoln was shot and the Titanic sank.

Work hard to make things easier.

I used to tell Jackie (Robinson) sometimes when they were throwing at him, 'Jackie, they aren't throwing at you because you are black. They are throwing at you because they don't like you.

With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

Then I would have an occasional cigarette and then I started back dipping. I started dipping last year. My family has asked me again to stop, and I'm trying my best to do that.

That's why I'm very proud of being American. I'm proud to pay taxes. I pay a lot of taxes, but it sure beats the alternative.

For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.

Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle.

We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.

No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.

Nicole will come up in conversations where it's in a part of the conversation. Or we may be somewhere and I would tell some story about their mother and I. You know, we always honor her birthday.

I'm enjoying the money, the big house, the cars; what ghetto kid wouldn't?

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slopestyle skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.