I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.
— Bob Hayes
I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
— Bob Beamon
Partnering with EA Sports and being on the cover of 'NCAA 10 is' very exciting. And to be on the list of guys who have been on the cover before me is exciting.
— Blake Griffin
I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.
— Bipasha Basu
I was always into sports and a lot of physical activities. My dad was a kickboxer and a body builder. My mom was an aerobics teacher.
— Billy Magnussen
I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.
— Billy Corgan
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
— Billie Jean King
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
— Bill Veeck
You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.
— Bill Simmons
I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.
— Bill Paxton
I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
— Bill James
Eventually you won't think of 'the Internet business.' You'll think of it more like news, weather, sports, but even that taxonomy isn't clear.
— Bill Gates
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.
— Bikram Choudhury
I'm a sports lover. Not just cricket - I play badminton and football, too. When I get some time off, I prefer to play sports rather than working out.
— Bhuvneshwar Kumar
My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.
— Beth Riesgraf
Some of us have been told what we want our whole lives. We've been told we should want to go out for sports or not. We should want a college education or a graduate degree or a particular career. We should want to date this person and not the other.
— Bob Goff
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
— Bo Jackson
I think the worst thing that's happened to sports is 'sources say.'
I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.
— Bing Gordon
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
— Billy Graham
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
— Bill Toomey
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
— Bill Russell
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
— Bill Lee
In Tulsa, it was sports or nothing.
— Bill Hader
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
— Bill Bradley
Going back about 10 years ago, the only thing a black kid could do to get out of the ghetto was being a sports star. Now we can add music to that, which is a good achievement in itself.
— Big Narstie
Philosophically, I don't believe in public funding for private sports.
— Betsy Hodges
There's no doubt about it that my participation in sports allowed me to compete in the business world in a very gender-neutral way.
— Beth Brooke
Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.
— Bob Feller
That's the good thing about sports - it's very clear-cut. You either win, or you don't.
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
— Blaise Pascal
I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.
— Billy Squier
What passes for sports coverage is terribly sycophantic.
— Billy Crystal
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
I wanted to use sports for social change.
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30' had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.
I was the kid who would join a sports team and be the biggest liability at first and a star player by the time the game got going. I just move very slowly.
— Bill Pullman
I would never encourage my children to be athletes - first because my children are not athletes and second because there are so many people pushing to get to the top in sports that 100 people are crushed for each one who breaks through. This is unfortunate.
I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
— Bill Goldberg
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
What the canons of beauty transmit is an idea of taking care of yourself. Eating well, living healthily, doing sports. It's a way to highlight the natural beauty in each of us. The natural body that all of us are born with.
— Bianca Balti
Growing up in Minnesota, I had a lot of freedom to run around, and we had go-carts and four-wheelers and all that stuff. I like that adrenalin-rush stuff. I did a little bit of dance, but mostly sports.
