Fishing. . . is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.
With me, boxing's a beautiful sport.
The first acting thing I ever did was my senior year I decided not to play a sport in the Spring and, in that Spring B. J. Novak who went to school with me, asked if I'd be in this show that was a parody of all the teachers in the school, 'sure!' That was the first acting thing I did.
Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.
There never was a champion who to himself was a good loser. There's a vast difference between a good sport and a good loser.
The sport in 2000 wasn't as big as it is now [in 2008].
Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.
I want people to see the passion I have for swimming and become more involved in the sport.
Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.
Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U. S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high.
I think it puts baseball back on the map as a sport. It's America's pastime and just look at everyone coming out to the ballpark. It has been an exciting year.
Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.
As long as I'm working in sport, enjoying it and getting to see some wonderful sporting events, I'm quite happy. I don't want to be really famous. I don't want people to stop me in the street. I want to just enjoy the work, work with lovely people, work on good quality sport and get to experience some more of these amazing moments.
You can travel from one end of the industrialized world to the other and almost the only people you will find engaging in backbreaking toil are people who are doing it for sport. To find people whose day's toil has not been lightened by mechanical invention, you must go to the non-capitalist world.
I've always taken the philosophy that you have to dream a little in this sport. If you stay in your comfort zone, you're not going to do anything special.
I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.
Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.