Sports Gear Quotes

I have six racquets and usually two pairs of tennis shoes with me. Most of the time, the shoes can last two or three weeks if I'm playing all the week. I'm not the kind of player who slides a lot, so I just need one extra pair in my bag.

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals.

Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind.

Nobody ever had too many of them (pitchers).

I was the kid in basketball camps wanting to see the new gear that comes out or the gear that the camps give.

We didn't have football boots, and we used a broken tennis ball instead of a football. I didn't use a proper ball until I was 11.

I used to get two racquets a year. As you can imagine, they didn't last me too long.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

The coach put me in goal, and back then, we were playing on bone-hard ground: red ash; we even trained on black ash, which was worse. That's not easy for a goalkeeper. My mother was always taking out her sewing kit for the countless holes in my training pants. For a long time, I had to buy my own gear.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He'd skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

I’m an Adidas guy who walks around in sports gear all the time because there’s always a ball right next to me somewhere. I do a lot of sports but I do enjoy wearing a lot of suits. I have quite a few suits that I really enjoy wearing but, unlike Hannibal, I like wearing them only at special occasions.

When I'm on the field, I don't want to be worrying about my cleats. I want them to enhance my playing style.

I wear Jordans when I'm in the ring, alright? This isn't ballet, you know?

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.

Equipment's the biggest change. And the guys have been getting bigger, stronger, more athletic - so the game has become more of a track meet instead of a tennis match, in a sense.

What is this? It is a prolate spheroid, an elongated sphere-in which the outer leather casing is drawn tightly over a somewhat smaller rubber tubing. Better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.

I actually tried quite a few racquets in college before I turned pro.

Sports and fashion move so fast that I can't possibly keep my ear to the ground. For one thing, my ear trumpet gets in the way.

I've always been a Nike person.

I would order a dozen bats and there were times they'd come back with handles at each end.