Sports Conversation Quotes

Sports have always been a huge part of my life and my conversations. It is a thrill and an honor to be a part of this ground-breaking show. I am a competitor at heart, but a true sports fan to my core.

I had an extremely boring time doing 20 to 30 trades a day while everyone was talking about baseball or basketball. So I stood there fantasizing about a device that could do the same thing I was doing.

It should be common knowledge that women and men can talk about sports.

I'll just let my tennis talk.

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

I - you know, I know almost nothing about sports. So whenever I hear anything involving sports, my go-to move is to kind of nod and agree.

I'm a sports idiot - watching it, playing it, making conversation about it - I got nothing.

When I talk to my colleagues from the national team, they always talk to me about Real Madrid.

You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.

Playing football and rugby is the Samoan sport. It's part of the conversation at church. It's part of the conversation in their barbershops, in the grocery stores. It's what everyone is aware of and familiar with. They take a lot of pride in the beating you can take in the course of that sport.

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

I love football. I mean, I've gotten a chance to spend a couple of moments with Peyton Manning and have just deeply intense great football nuance conversation with him.

That's all my brother and I do, talk basketball, and I'd like to think I bring some of that casual quality with me on the air.

There's only so much you can talk about football. Anytime you can get into a conversation that's not political, it's a welcome change.

Acting has never been a thing that me and my dad have talked about. It's like footballers: when they get together, I bet the last thing they talk about is football.

I have spoken to refs after games, just to ask about something that had occurred during a game. It's always been off the record and I've never had a ref not answer.

My English might not be good enough to talk politics but there is no difficulty if we are talking about football.

I just got hooked on the radio, the voice of it all. It was my connection to metropolitan America, if you will. Sports, in particularly baseball then 'cause of its rich sediment of numbers, was one of the first things a young person could peg up with adults on - that is, you could know as much about Jimmy Fox as your father did.