Burleigh Grimes Quotes

All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

To be able to have winning in your blood growing up, whether it was pounding my little brother or trying to beat my dad in something, or just competing on teams with my friends, it was nonstop.

There's ego in all of us rugby players.

A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors.

I've had a good time here in baseball. I love baseball. That's why I'm still around.

Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams.

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

I think that the game is the game. I think that expansion is good for the game because it gives more jobs to the people and more ballplayers can play, but I think the game is still the game. The ballplayers, they come into the game with one thing in mind - it's their job.

I won't have any competitive instincts in any sports, other than golf. I can't see being competitive in sports any more.

I started out as a football player. I liked to inflict pain. In basketball, it was the same thing.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

I'm not necessarily intimidated by really jocky guys. I can talk football with them, you know what I mean?

I think that players play, and they compete, and it's not about incentives.

I was a ballplayer, but only for a limited time. I grew up playing in Wisconsin. It's a very sports-centric part of the country that I grew up in and I played a lot of sports, but baseball first and foremost. I played through high school. I was a middle-infielder.

Football was always a deal we made with ourselves. We adopted it for its brutality, which was embedded in a context that happened to be perfectly suited to television and to gambling, but which we could convince ourselves was only incidental to our enjoyment because it was only incidental to the game itself.

I've always been around dudes and sports.

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.'

Coos Bay is a sports-minded town. You had to be an athlete to be somebody.

High school baseball is a passion of mine.

Just being in the whole environment around the IPL, around the people that you ge to play with and against means it's going to be really, really good.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

I grew up with sports, but I was definitely not good enough to become a professional athlete - I just loved the storytelling aspect of it.

Listen folks, if you want your son to grow up to be a man, don't have him run around on a field kicking a ball; get him wrestling.