Quotes About Sporting Events

#1. South Africa is the only place in the Southern hemisphere where Halloween is really catching on. They have a lot of sporting events that have made it more popular there. They have motocross and rave celebrations, and they're embracing it as a youth culture thing.

Lisa Morton

#2. The world is filled with great sporting events.

Alex Berenson

#3. People say the seats at sporting events are too small. My response is, 'That's why we're trying to work on the size of your rear end!'

Mick Cornett

#4. Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events ... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

LeRoy Neiman

#5. Many of us enjoy going to ball games and watching them on television. I am no exception. I love to watch a good athletic contest. If we spend excessive time with sporting events, however, we may neglect things that are much more important.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#6. Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

Daniel Levitin

#7. If I were the commissioner of all sports media I would issue an immediate ban on three-person announcing teams on telecasts of live sporting events. In almost all cases three is one voice too many.

Al Bernstein

#8. I would say go for it because it is a fantastic job. It's a wonderful opportunity to go and get involved with sport at whatever level. What I would say is, if you can, go and work with your local radio station covering local sporting events.

Jill Douglas

#9. There are very few lows but lots and lots of highs. You're in an incredibly privileged position because you're able to go along to major sporting events and be ringside. You can see and hear everything.

Jill Douglas

#10. Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.

Eduardo Paes

#11. That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Bernhard Langer

#12. Tennis players are very fortunate that unlike some disciplines of sport, in mega-sporting events like the Grand Slams, they have a huge platform to showcase their talents on the world stage once every few months.

Sania Mirza

#13. You might be a redneck if your momma gives you tips on how to sneak booze into sporting events.

Jeff Foxworthy

#14. I'm not married, and I don't have any kids, so sometimes I envy that end of things when I see a family vacation or people at the beach with their kids or at sporting events with their kids; you wonder, 'Is that a part of your life that you want to go into?'

Kevin Connolly

#15. I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

John Tesh

#16. I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.

Chuck Klosterman

#17. Our great common challenge ... is to free people from religion, get it out of our laws, our schools, our health systems, our government and, I would add, also our sporting events. I would really like to see some separation of church and stadium, if we could work on that.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#18. Rock 'n' roll ... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

Angie Everhart

#19. Not every woman goes to sporting events to find men, but 2-3 percent of women do.

Katie Nolan

#20. 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.

Will Forte

#21. Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

Drew Carey

#22. This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

Maria Sharapova

#23. I love sporting events and popcorn and pizza and being outside, like at a baseball or football game. I love amusement parks, going to ride roller coasters.

Carrie Underwood

#24. Spectacular sporting events are bread & circuses. The Superbowl, for instance, is anything but "super". It is a Petri dish under the lens of mediaocrity, where surveillance of the spectators is just as mind numbing as the incomprehensible homo-erotic beefcake ballet being enacted on the pitch

Dean Cavanagh

#25. Like nightclubs and sporting events, entry into an amusement park is a permission to become someone else. We come for the experience and to relish it.

Greg Rucka

#26. If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

Freeman Dyson

#27. Shoulda gone to China. They give away babies like free iPods. They put them in guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

Diablo Cody

#28. I'm not a big filmophile. I don't watch movies a lot for a hobby. I spend all my time watching sporting events. Because, opposed to movies, you can never tell how they're going to end.

Michael Douglas

#29. Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

Richard Attias

#30. A lot of times I watch sporting events, and there are things I want to say and things I see that don't get said or talked about.

Landon Donovan

#31. Sporting events like the Olympics have developed and maintained a clear message of promoting gender equality as an essential criterion in the success of any international event.

Richard Attias

#32. I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.

Woody Allen

#33. By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

Albert Brooks

#34. Conversely, the biophilia hypothesis, as Wilson calls it, also explains why we find natural settings so peaceful. It's in our genes. That's why, each year, more people visit zoos than attend all sporting events combined.

Eric Weiner

#35. Big sporting events and spectacles might give the national morale a shot in the arm, but they are too transient and taste-specific to stand as robust symbols of nationhood.

Julian Baggini

#36. And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

Ed Bradley

#37. Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

Richard Attias

#38. Even though people involved in racing think that it has a big sporting stage, it is a minority sport compared to some of the other high-profile events: football, Formula One or golf.

Tony McCoy

#39. No other sporting event can compare with a good Series. The Super Bowl is a three-hour interruption in a week of drink and Rotarian parties.

Roger Kahn

#40. I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event.

Wright Thompson