Mark Russell Quotes

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

When you're representing a sport, people are more likely to judge and comment as, unlike other fields, sport permits every viewer to participate to a certain level.

Detroit - and I'm not blowing smoke at anybody - is probably the greatest fan sports town in the country. They'll support anything.

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

But as a practical matter, Detroit's the sports city in the country.

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I think it turned the whole sport around. It got everybody's attention. People who were watching TV live were jumping up and down in their living rooms.

The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.

The world is filled with great sporting events.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

If you're giving me tickets to the football game, baseball game or hockey game, I'm taking the tickets to the hockey game. For me, it's by far the most fun sport to go and watch live and be part of. I just don't know why it doesn't translate as well on TV.

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

Political movements and mega sporting events have always gone hand in hand. In 1980, there were Cold War boycotts in Moscow and again in 1984 during Los Angeles Games.

Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.

You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.

There's this whole new grammar Twitter skill set that I do not possess. I'm not a very good person to follow. I never tweet, and when I do, it's about some sort of sporting event that I'm watching.

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.