I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.
— Johnny Galecki
George Steinbrenner forever changed baseball and hopefully someday we will see him honored in baseball's Hall of Fame as one of the great figures in the history of sports.
— John W. Henry
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
— John Updike
Sports occupies a central place in our society, and, as such, it is unavoidably cultural in nature and often engaged in societal issues.
— John Skipper
Things that are unique and rare will cost a lot of money. Houses in East Hampton and Malibu will cost a lot of money because there just aren't that many of them. The value of sports has appreciated because it's the only thing that people have to watch live.
Sports is a mass product, and it's a non-replicable product. You can't knock it off.
I think the reason that I've been able to succeed is that I was a fan of sports entertainment when I was a kid - that's what I wanted to do.
— John Morrison
Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
— John McEnroe
I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'
— John Madden
Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
— John Leonard
I try not to make a habit of spending the whole year losing in the first rounds of events, but tennis is one of those sports where nothing is guaranteed.
— John Isner
Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.
— John Hickenlooper
Writing well about sports is as difficult as writing well about sex.
— John Gregory Dunne
Mom would talk about Eric Sevareid and Murrow and Howard K. Smith the way other parents talk about sports figures.
— John Dickerson
I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
— John Cleese
My dad is not a sports guy but was drawn to the theatrics of wrestling.
— John Cena
I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
— John Wooden
I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money.
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
— John Travolta
Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.
Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.
The only reason professional sports teams - I shouldn't say the only reason, but the most important reason professional sports teams exist - is to win. And if you're not aiming to win, then you really don't belong owning a sports team, in my opinion. So you've got to be moving there.
— John S. Middleton
In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
— John Montgomery Ward
We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.
That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.
I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.
— John Legend
All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
— John Hodgman
The self-image of many contemporary sportswriters seems to depend on maintaining that were it not for sports, athletes would be pumping gas, if they were not sticking up the gas station.
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.
— John DeLuca
I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods,' 'Madden,' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.'
My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.
Sports were a big part of my life. I was the captain of the basketball team in high school, and captain of the basketball team at Princeton.
— John W. Rogers, Jr.
I believe almost any sports fan would purchase a club, if they had the means.
With the polarization of points of view around significant political and social issues, sports is a place where people can sort of talk about something together. And I think that is important to people.
Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
The consumption of highlights on ESPN is greater than everybody else's combined. Fifty-six percent of all news and information consumed in sports is consumed on the ESPN platforms.
I don't do sports, and my idea of hell is being dragged around ruins/museums/famous buildings, so I guess I'm a beach bum.
— John Niven
I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.
— John Michael Higgins
I'll let the racket do the talking.
Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together.
— John Lahr
As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
In sports, the confluence of the 1989 Oakland vs. San Francisco World Series and the Loma Prieta earthquake notwithstanding, the earth rarely moves.
I always liked to write and had fun writing, but I didn't have any pretensions about being a writer. I liked to read and liked to putz around and write little stories or poems, but my thing was sports.
— John Edgar Wideman
If a person says they're an athlete but they don't compete in sports, then you wonder if they're really an athlete. It's the same with acting. There are lots of people who call themselves actors but never act.
— John de Lancie
The ESPYS are about appreciating moments in sports and not looking down on it because it's maybe not your favorite athlete or your favorite team.
