Sports Discussion Quotes

It's not a bad idea to have gossip and talking points in athletics.

A lot of my friends, when I was 14 or 15, they were all up and down, wanting to go out on a Friday night, and my dad had me working really late on Fridays and Saturday mornings and even on Sunday mornings. And when I'd finished all that, we used to spend the rest of the time talking about boxing.

I love talking about football, and obviously I love playing football, but you may not be able to play football forever, but you can talk about it for a long time.

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

Charles Barkley, Clyde Drexler and I used to argue for hours about who the best athletes are. I thought football players were better overall.

Women are the same. We watch football; we play football. Why wouldn't we be out there giving our opinions on the sport, too?

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 don't like discussing cricket off the field.

I go home after games to watch the highlights with my friends, and I listen to the commentary and to the experts. I always get home by 10 o'clock at night so I can watch it live.

I mean, obviously when you've a lot of time on your hands, you get together and you're always always debating that team vs. that team, that player vs. that player, all these hypothetical matchups.

When I was small, I would sit next to my dad and watch the round-up highlights programme with him, and we would talk about the games. I loved it.

I don't want to find out what celebrity X, who is a Browns fan, thinks of the zone blitz scheme. I don't think that's the sort of thing that I would even ask many people when they come on the show; it's very obtuse, even if they are an expert on football.

A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.

When you put yourself out there as an expert and the people you are trying to attract are people who want to do the very show you are doing, guys standing around, sitting around arguing with each other over sports, if you make a mistake that lights up like a flare in the middle of the night. You've just got to correct that or else they're going to say, 'Well, why do these dopes have that show? I can go out there and be just as good as them.'

One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.

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.

I like good food and talking about football.

On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio.

I have some guests who get angry when they don't get to talk about sports and have to talk about the project they are promoting.

My brother, Ajay, who plays lower-division games, and I discuss cricket often.

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.

All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.

I will be talking with gymnasts from some of the other countries. I will be getting a feel for what they're thinking and what they're doing. It should be a really great meet.

No, we discuss it as fans. When we see the game, we talk about what we thought was a call or a foul or no foul. We just have to deal with that in the game. There's gonna be plenty more of those. Referees are humans, so it's not a problem.

It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.