Sports analogy Quotes

If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms.

The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

Normally sports day is once a year for kids, where you have fun, and everybody is jostling. For us, making movies is like having sports day everyday: competing with each other, doing your best. It's like that except we don't get awards every day in our sports day.

John Cena is the man here. He's the Hulk Hogan of our era.

Football is like that - sometimes you have good times, sometimes you have bad times.

The interesting thing is that it seems like George W. Bush would have been happy being the president of anything. He could have been president of Major League Baseball. Less people killed. It wouldn't have affected the world on a planetary level. Sure, there would have been little things. There would have been scandals and kind of numbskull things here and there .

I think an actor is very like a sportsman. You have periods where you're in terrific form. Everything you touch seems to work, and come right. And other times, when you're working really hard, it's okay, but it isn't scintillating.

If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Talent is extremely important. It's like a sports team, the team that has the best individual player will often win, but then there’s a multiplier from how those players work together and the strategy they employ.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'

Defenders see things way different than blockers.

And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.

Even in high school, I was balanced. It's just that my run plays were dynamic.

Manchester is the same as Milan. The weather is the same, and you have two big clubs fighting against each other.

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

I'm the Bjorn Boerg of table tennis.

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

My 10th grade year I was 6-foot-4 and I grew to like 6-foot-7, but I still had my guard skills. I was playing point guard, I was a big guard. People started calling me 'Penny Hardaway' - comparing me to him because I was a big guard.

Mr. Feld was right; life was like baseball, filled with loss and error, with bad hops and wild pitches, a game in which even champions lost almost as often as they won, and even the best hitters were put out seventy percent of the time.

The economy has produced 6.1 million jobs since I became president, and if Michael Jordan comes back to the Bulls, it will be 6,100,001 jobs.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

A lot of people say Klay Thompson. I get that comparison a lot. I like that.

When you are a writer, the assist-to-turnover ratio... there are a lot more turnovers than assists.