#sport

In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#back #every #every time #exile #i

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#cold #cold weather #college #football #rye

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#best #golf #played #tennis #watched

One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms. ↗

— Al Kaline

#arms #athletes #baseball #basketball #better

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd. ↗

— Mindy Kaling

#anything #chubby #ever #except #good

Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. ↗

— Phil Knight

#both #cultural #dominant #emotions #forces

I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#acting #admire #anything #figure #having

Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies. ↗

— Bill Toomey

#fraction #i #realized #second #sportsmen

The integrity of the game is everything. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#everything #game #integrity

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. ↗

— Peter Ueberroth

#baseball #certain #commissioners #goes #over