Best sports & fans Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.”

Feels Years Two Play Lasts Sports Support Fans Huge Proud Golf British Two Years Championship Appreciated Affinity Sports Fan

Author:Rory McIlroy

“I'm a huge, huge sports fan, and Marquette basketball is my No. 1 thing.”

Sports Fans Huge Basketball Sports Fan

Author:Danny Pudi

“The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.”

Sports Memories Fans Dollars Entertainment Loyalty Nfl Enterprise Good Will Good Memories Sports Fan Family Memories

Author:Wendell Pierce

“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.”

Ifs Has Beens Actors Sports Fans Calling Hollywood Athlete Convinced Could Have Been Sports Fan Pro Athlete

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I'm a huge fan of Chicago sports and Chicago food, and I love going home and my family is still there. I guess it's pretty easy to have a normal life in Chicago.”

Stills Home Easy Sports Fans Huge Normal My Family Chicago Normal Life Going Home

Author:Matt Walsh

“It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.”

Feels Doe Matter Sports Behinds Nice Fans Concern Behind You

Author:Dan Marino

“I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves.”

Thinking World Want Play Eye Guy Sports Perfect Fans Hardest Places In The World Philadelphia Superstar Super Star

Author:Allen Iverson

“I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.”

Sports Known Fans Taught Garden Cooking Gardening Sports Fan

Author:Thalassa Cruso

“Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.”

Knows Games Sports Fans Offensive Sports Fan Lineman Offensive Lineman

Author:Dante Hall

“I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.”

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Author:Bud Selig

“In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.”

Want Trying Kind Country Asks Sports Too Much Fans Approach Spain

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books”

Book Real Sports Fire Fans Football Tragedy Destroyed Dorms Auburn Gators

Author:Steve Spurrier

“One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.”

Sports Seeing One Thing Fans Keys Bottom Tickets Cubs

Author:Joe Garagiola

“I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans.”

World Years Heart Home Dream Bigs Together America Sports Race Cities Fans Figures Shoulders Broads Chicago Nationality Legendary Venues Big Heart Sports Fan Race And Religion

Author:Barack Obama

“The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.”

Source: Bully for Brontosaurus: Reflections in Natural History

“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.”

Thinking Long Light Eye Sports Emotion Happened Fans Horror Worship Blind Cups Fixed Scare Long Ago

Author:Boris Becker

“Without humor, a sports fan is a religious fanatic. Without humor, a newscast is a terrible, depressing, unpalatable thing.”

Sports Religious Fans Terrible Depressing Fanatics Sports Fan Religious Fanatics

Author:Keith Olbermann

“Of all the things in sports, getting a sack is one of the hardest things to do. It's like a last-second, game-winning shot in the NBA. A guy hits the last-second shot, and the fans scream. For us (defensive ends), the sack is everything. It's hard to get there. But once you do, there's nothing like it.”

Ends Hard Lasts Guy Games Winning Sports Fans Shots Hardest Things To Do Nba Scream Hardest Thing Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Dwight Freeney

“I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.”

Thinking Way Kind Reason Play Sports One Thing Fans Style Tables Reason Why Appreciated Aggressiveness

Author:Latrell Sprewell

“Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.”

Hard Kids Sports Fans Lessons Hopefully Grandkids Hard Lessons

Author:Lawrence Taylor

“I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.”

Play Games Sports Fans Huge Basketball Picks Active Nba Brooklyn

Author:Brendan Dooling

“A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.”

Sports Team Fans Roots Baseball Hog Truffles

Author:Carol Tavris

“Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.”

Form Sports Fans Entertainment Analysis Resumes

Author:Mark Cuban

“I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.”

Bigs Sports Fans Basketball Sports Fan

Author:Lamorne Morris

“Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.”

Needs Different Sports Player Fans Currents Following Satisfied All Time Eras Compare Accomplishment Tennis Crops Junkie Admiring Sports Fan Different Eras

Author:Dave McPherson

“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.”

World Real Matter Sports Fans Pressure Complexes Graves Obligation Relief Real World Irrational Seriousness Unworthy Unending Sports Fan

Author:Richard Gilman

“I've always like watching competition and athleticism. Just seeing the average person going up against Gladiators, is always something I enjoy. I'm not really a big sports fan, but I do enjoy the show.”

Persons Shows Bigs Sports Enjoy Seeing Fans Competition Average Average Person Sports Fan Athleticism

Author:Laila Ali

“I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports.”

People Ifs Needs Important War Sports Watches Fans Media Crime Tvs Sick Tired So Sick

Author:Charles Barkley

“I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.”

Play Together Individual Sports Team Fans Football Working Together Awards Teammate Sports Team

Author:Troy Polamalu

“Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.”

Long Has Beens Sports Poor Fans Long Time Inferiors Mistreated Sports Fan Poor Service

Author:Dave Checketts

“The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.”

Knows Sports Perfect Fans Ties Christmas Gift

Book:You could look it up: more on language

Source: You could look it up: more on language

“I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor.”

“Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.”

Heart Shows Sports Fans Huge Honor Conversation Core Thrill Competitors Sports Fan

Author:Summer Sanders

“Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to disappoint fans a few years later, if this is part of the process we have to go through to get the sport to the better place, obviously I'm here, I'm doing it.”

People Ifs Years Has Beens Sports Process Fans Legacy Better Place Disappoint

Author:Chris Froome

“Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.”

Shows Actors Sports Fans Tvs Tv Shows What You Love

Author:Kristoffer Polaha

“Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.”

People Bigs Fun Stuff Sports Nice Fans Events Huge Exciting My Time Thrill Nice People Time Away Sports Fan Sporting Events Watching Sports

Author:Will Forte

“I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.”

Ifs Thinking World Sports Fans Mets Cups Soccer World Cup Soccer Fans

Author:Landon Donovan

“We consider ourselves the luckiest fans on the face of the Earth.”

Earth Faces Sports Fans

Author:Cal Ripken, Jr.

“My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.”

Hard Dies Sports Player Fans Football My Favorite Favorite Sports Steelers

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

Character Jobs Guy Actors Sports Fans Grew Grew Up Baseball Strikes Relief Golfers Pitcher Participants Analogies Character Actors Avid

Author:Clint Howard

“I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Games Speak Sports Watches Fans Drug My Friends Drunk Gamble Commentators Pissed Off Sports Fan

Author:Pablo Francisco

“I was always interested in sport. My family are big sports' fans. We always had all the locals round watching big sporting events. I wasn't particularly sporty myself. I played a lot of hockey and rode, still do ride, but I just had a general interest in it. When I was given the opportunity to do sport stories I used to grab them.”

Stills Stories Bigs Used Opportunity Given Sports Interest Fans Events My Family Rounds Locals Hockey Sports Fan Sporting Events

Author:Jill Douglas

“I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.”

Ends Sometimes Sports Results Effort Fans Men And Women Commitment Incredibles I've Learned Viewers Phenomenal End Results Sportsman Sports Fan

Author:Jill Douglas

“The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.”

Sports Ability Fans Theory Fuel Sports Fan

Author:Jack Nicholson

“I would give the same advice to anyone, celebrity or not. Produce your own music, keep in original, and be real. You need to earn the respect of your fans for your original work in music, and not rely on your celebrity in other mediums. The same would apply for actors who sing, dance, or even play sports.”

Needs Giving Real Play Actors Sports Fans Advice Produce Originals Mediums Rely Being Real Real You

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.”

Knows Giving Has Beens Sports Fans Judgment Good Judgment

Author:Bobby Rahal

“Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the status is, and the fan interest.”

Important Bigs Games Sports Interest Money Fans Hitting

Book:Science of Hitting

Source: Science of Hitting

“People's instinct when they hear someone is madly obsessed with Star Wars or Harry Potter or something like that, they think that it's odd and not as cool as being a massive sports fan or film nerd. But I think it's amazing and something that should be celebrated and definitely not looked down on or misunderstood.”

People Thinking Should War Film Stars Sports Fans Instinct Odd Obsessed Massive Harry Potter Nerd Misunderstood Potters Sports Fan

Author:Tom Felton

“Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.”

Believe Helping Games I Believe Easy Sports Fans Football Baseball I Believe In Tension Pauses Football Fan

Author:Carlos Cuaron

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