In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.
— Jimmy Hill
I was totally dominated and revered my father. I admired everything he did. He was a great sports person. He loved me. I was his only boy at that time, before my brother Billy came along.
— Jimmy Carter
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
— Jim Sensenbrenner
I like Twitter because I'm a creature of the short-attention span theater. I can get a lot of sports opinions and other things and Twitter tells me what time it is, but not how to make the watch.
— Jim Ross
I used to write letters to Jim McKay in college. 'Wide World of Sports' was this travelogue, really, that introduced us to sports and it introduced us to parts of the world that we had never seen before. And no one was a bigger tour guide than Mr. McKay.
— Jim Nantz
Far and away, the question I'm asked most often is, 'What's your favorite sporting event to call?' I can't say I've ever answered the question well, simply because the three biggest events I broadcast for CBS Sports - the Super Bowl, the NCAA Men's Final Four and the Masters - each are incomparable.
The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
— Jim Finks
The thing is, I'm a sports junkie.Everybody knows that. I could watch any of this stuff - track and field... anything - and really enjoy it.
— Jim Boeheim
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.
— Jill Lepore
Eric has pro athletes on both sides of his family - plus, I used to play sports - so I'm sure our son will develop athletic ability.
— Jessie James Decker
My introduction to sports was through baseball. That's all I knew.
— Jessica Mendoza
I think there's something to baseball, golf, fishing that there's downtime within all of those sports. Even though you're still doing the sport and everything that's involved, there's still this time to be able to think and have conversations.
My parents gave up on their dreams in sports because they were athletes, and they had me at such an early age. I didn't want to do that.
— Jessica McDonald
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
— Jesse Ventura
I didn't really watch 'Dallas' growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.
— Jesse Metcalfe
I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.
— Jesse Eisenberg
The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
— Jimmy Fallon
A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
— Jimmy Cannon
These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.
The black man's journey within the genre of grappling wasn't unlike the challenges their brethren faced in professional sports, entertainment and, most importantly, everyday life. To say it was challenging would be a massive understatement.
Any time you factor in the enthusiasm that comes with college sports, it comes with a whole new level. It is less corporate, it's more of an unharnessed kidlike enthusiasm.
I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports.
— Jim McKay
If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.
— Jim Brown
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
— Jim Bishop
Many Americans don't know anyone in the military, so they aren't aware that, on average, a military child attends six to nine schools by the time he or she graduates from high school. Through each transition, the children have to leave their friends, try out for new sports teams and adjust to a new school community.
— Jill Biden
My father is a first-generation Mexican-American and sports changed his life. It allowed him to basically live his dream, but it was only because he was given the opportunity by one person.
Anytime I'm like, 'Ho-hum,' trying to go about my business like anyone else, I'll have a father or someone come up to me and say, 'You know, my daughter never realized she could be in the booth for sports, and now that's what she wants to do.'
It should be common knowledge that women and men can talk about sports.
At the end of the day, if we don't show female sports on TV, how are sponsors going to want to sponsor women? And if we don't support the women, how do you expect us to get results? It's a bit of a catch-22.
— Jessica Fox
The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.
— Jesse Schell
I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
— Jesse McCartney
I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.
— Jerry Springer
You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
— Jimmy Connors
Trump survives by Corum's Law. This is a famous, well-tested theory and is named after Bill Corum, who once wrote sports for the Hearst papers when they were in New York.
— Jimmy Breslin
Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.
Long before social media and even television, enterprising wrestling promoters wisely scouted and signed new stars that would not only help them sell tickets, but also garner publicity from mainstream sports media.
I'm not an agate type ESPN Sports Center highlight, in-your-face kind of a sports fan.
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
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
— Jim Bouton
When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.
— Jim Bankoff
I didn't go to normal children school. I went to sports school when I was 8. So I studied martial arts.
— Jet Li
My main goal when I talk to groups is to educate families on the physical and mental health benefits that playing sports provide young girls. It's not just about going out there and having fun. That's a part of playing sports, but a big chunk of it is all the other things that sports give you to help you become a much more whole, better person.
Having a father as a football and a baseball coach, I grew up around college baseball players, college football players, like, I just knew sports my whole life.
I think the biggest thing I can say to that is every female is different. Not that every man isn't, but speaking on behalf on my gender, I think women can watch sports exactly like men, and others watch it exactly the opposite way.
I've been involved with sports my whole life, which made clothes and makeup and handbags not that important as a kid. I just didn't care.
— Jessica Biel
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
— Jesse Owens
Before I left for American University, my mother told me to sign up for everything I could: to take advantage of everything from on-campus lectures to sports and social events to the amazing D.C. culture.
— Jesse Itzler
Any other business, you want your competitors to go out of business. In sports, you just don't want them to have as good a record as you do.
