Sports Boredom Quotes

I realize this is blasphemy, but a few weeks ago I tried to watch a NASCAR race being run at Talladega. I lasted about five minutes before terminal boredom overtook me. It appeared to be nothing more than a high-speed freeway commute--a mob of luridly painted, identical lumps of metal loping at 180 mph around the banking, fender to fender, nose to tail. Knowing the scenario would surely devolve into a multicar demolition derby that would thrill the goobers in the grandstands, I turned off the set to later learn that this time it was Jimmie Johnson who triggered the eight-car melee.

Like a lot of kids, you kind of think baseball's boring - that's the perception.

Sometimes now, when I watch continental games on television, I'm a bit bored. I ask, 'where is the intensity?'

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

To be honest, I'm not a big golf nerd. Golf is kind of boring, not much action.

I play enough tennis during the year; I'm sick of it by the time I get home. So the last thing I want to do is go out there and hit more balls.

It kind of sucks being the guy taking the knees at the end, because everyone wants to see some action - no one wants to see you taking knees in the Pro Bowl.

I'm sick of seeing John Cena against Randy Orton for the 500th time.

I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.