Quotes about sports

That’s why men need instant replays in sports. They’ve already forgotten what happened.

John Wayne

Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can’t redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

Will Rogers

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day – from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.

Terry Crews

The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can’t move freely. I don’t know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Marilyn Monroe

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they’re afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Serena Williams

Both sexes like the exercise and challenge of sports, but for men it’s also a basic display behavior for impressing and winning a mate.

Helen Fisher

To me, torture would be watching sports on television.

Quentin Tarantino

A Negro just can’t be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

Malcolm X