#sports

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#bay #been #days #detroit #football

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50. ↗

— Guy Forget

#great #guys #professional #sportsman #top

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ↗

— Dan Gable

#alloy #called #determination #gold #gold medals

We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to. ↗

— Jerry Lawler

#best #enjoy #entertainment #finally #forms

Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports? ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#about #always #around #because #cares

When I grew up we had gym at school, two or three dance classes after school, ice skating lessons, and all sorts of sports at our finger tips. We weren't glued to computers because they didn't exist, so being active was all we knew. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#after #because #being #classes #computers

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ↗

— Robert Wilson Lynd

#almost #golf #how #impossible #place

For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America. ↗

— Elle Macpherson

#cover #every #i #illustrated #issue

That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. ↗

— John Madden

#biggest #bowl #difference #gap #loser

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#ball player #found #going #grow #growing