Sports Distraction Quotes

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

Some emotions cannot be endured with a golf club in your hands.

The business always gets in the way of basketball.

I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.

I wish no teams had cheerleaders. I find it more distracting than anything else.

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.

I have to say that when I was young, when any politician was talking I wasn't even interested. Maybe they were saying some nice stuff, but then if you put Michael Jordan on TV, I was interested!

I used to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.

Kim Kardashian is single again. Hey, great. Maybe that will give the NBA players something to do during the lockout.

Tennis players shouldn't get married. It hurts your game.

All the fascination with numbers conspires to make you forget the beauty of the game sometimes.

If it's attention you want, don't get involved with a man during play-off season.

Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

I'm especially grateful that they're here at a time when the rest of Ireland is focused on the final round of the Six Nations rugby tournament and the last match of the legendary Brian O'Driscoll.

Till the 10th standard, I was quite good - I got 66% that year. After my 10th, I got really involved with cricket, so I didn't have any time to study. And my parents didn't push me, either, which was very good for me.

Youngsters getting hooked to IPL is a dangerous sign for Indian cricket.

I don't watch penalties in my hotel room. I watch naughty videos

I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black.

By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Football, fraternities and fun have no place in the university. They were introduced only to entertain those who shouldn't be in the university.

Girls are a distraction and can easily cost points.

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

I haven't watched a lot of football at all. Easiest thing for me was to take my mind away from the game all together and focus on the things that I need to get right. And football wasn't one of those things.