Sports Film Quotes

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

'Harjeeta' is a film based on the inspiring story of a sportsman, grappling with life's struggles, and surviving against all odds and managing to end the nation's 15-year-old drought in the Junior Championship by lifting the coveted trophy.

I would love to do a period film, a sports film, or an out and out action movie.

'Mighty Ducks' was a great experience, and I don't shy away from that.

The first 'Creed' is one of the best movies I've ever seen.

After watching 'Dangal,' I called my writer and told him that I wanted to do a sports film for Punjab because no sports movies have been ever made in Punjab.

I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.

My all-time favorite movie is 'He Got Game.'

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

I would love to do a biopic on a bowler like Zaheer Khan or Harbhajan Singh. I would love to see their struggles on screen.

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

Basketball movies don't really accentuate the flow of the game.

'Jim Thorpe - All American' influenced me as a young kid.

I really want to do a sports biopic.

The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.

I would love to do a sports biopic. I love sports and I think it would be amazing to be a part of a true story and play an athlete.

I got to direct a human interest sports drama - to this day, one of my proudest achievements in my career and a source of undying pride.

You can't have Alan Partridge as Eddie the Eagle!

It was no accident that I made 'Hoop Dreams' because it concerned a sport that I loved and hoped would be my dream, however far-fetched that turned out to be. Because of the success of that film, Hollywood pigeonholed me as a sports biopic guy, which led to 'Prefontaine' and two cable sports films.

I imagined that being someday in pro ball I would have been Kevin Costner in Bull Durham. If I had never discovered acting, I literally would have been that guy.

If I ever get the chance to do a football movie, that would be a dream come true.

Women's boxing has received a major boost from the success of 'Million Dollar Baby.'

I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

I really liked the biopic of Milkha Singh and Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

I would like to do a sports movie.