#ports

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players. ↗

— Mike Piazza

#days #enjoy #game #i #long

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#concluded #diplomacy #exception #few #nothing

In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are. ↗

— Althea Gibson

#field #less #more #more or less #rather

Flowers are the free throw of love. You're looking for the clutch three-pointer from downtown. ↗

— Daniel Holloway & Dorothy Robinson

#humor #love #sports #dating

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ↗

— Roger Kahn

#baseball #becoming #early #i #lying

But which is the stone that supports the bridge? ↗

— Kublai Khan

#stone #supports #which

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally. ↗

— Callie Khouri

#baseball #because #couple #get #happen

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door. ↗

— Jim Lampley

#certainly #door #good #honest #know

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#fast #feel #god #his #i

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports. ↗

— Rebecca Lobo

#anything #athlete #because #being #best