Sports Addiction Quotes

I've been accused of being a bit too keen on my football, not least by my three ex-wives.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses

Saturday afternoon is the hardest thing. I can go out and watch games, but I'm constantly on my phone looking at results: what score is this, what score is that. You have no real involvement, but you're obsessed with it.

I'm a basketball junkie. I watch basketball all the time.

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

I'm an obsessive sports fan, which my wife is incredibly patient about.

I've taken up golf... or golf has taken me up.

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

I seldom watch TV, but I often get caught up in cricket no matter what time they are on.

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Living for football has saturated me.

My father has this insane, all-consuming passion for sports.

Australians are hungry for sport. They love it. They're addicted to it.

I can watch SportsCenter on a loop, like, five times in a row until my girlfriend is like, 'Seriously? It's the same highlights!' It just brings me peace, I think. Any kind of game - college basketball, college football, obviously anything pro.

I'm not obsessed by football.

I watch ESPN all day. If you come into my trailer, ESPN is on. That's the first thing I do when I leave the set.

I am just a guy that watches sports all day.

I have to confess I'm addicted to Sky Sports News. Just the music can pull me in. And then whether it's badminton in the Czech Republic, snail pushing or mole hopping, I'm hooked.

Once you catch that fever of wrestling, you really can't get it out.

I think it actually is easier for players to abstain from watching than it is for people who haven't experienced it. I know a wide variety of former players that don't really follow football any more. They've kind of had that cathartic experience. They know what it is.

You get a taste of playing in the playoffs and what that's like, and it's a completely different world. You get a taste in those meaningful games. You get that taste, and you can't get it out. You want more.