Sports Mania Quotes

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

I probably don't have any room in my mind for anything but football. My dad tells me I'm a total vegetable outside of just knowing football.

Saturday afternoon is the hardest thing. I can go out and watch games, but I'm constantly on my phone looking at results: what score is this, what score is that. You have no real involvement, but you're obsessed with it.

The game's my life and I'm so passionate about it. When you see your life so intertwined with football it can make things very difficult. You might go and watch a film and start imagining footballers running across the screen, you know?

But I was so wrapped up in sports growing up as a kid, that I think I was going to grow to be a pro ball player. But I found out real quick that was not going to happen.

I'm not one of those people who goes home and has to put football on the TV straight away or has to watch Sky Sports News.

It's all ball, all the time. You have no excuse to not watch anything you've ever wanted to study in your life, especially in the offseason.

I'm nothing more than a sports slave.

I just consider Boston and New England incredible sports fans. If they give me trouble, think I'm rooting for other side, it's mainly because they're living and dying with every pitch and every play and think I'm rooting for the other side. I'd much rather that than apathy.

I do enjoy cricket, but the game is over hyped.

Packer fans are nuts, man.

Interest in a sport peaks during its championship season. That's when even casual observers turn on their television sets, and lifelong fans are born.

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

I can't put my mind to anything else. I'm not interested in hanging out or partying. For me, it's all about the pitch: training, playing. But even when I go home, afterwards, it's football the whole time. I think I'm obsessed!

Something amazing happens when you tell people you write about sports for a living. You begin to feel like you're in a scene from 'Dawn of the Dead.' The way people change when talking about 'their team' can be nothing short of zombiefication.

In Europe, it's different - you eat soccer, you breathe soccer, you drink soccer. Everything is about soccer.

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.

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

I have to say I know much more about football than I would like to, because my husband is a rabid football fan, and it's been so horrible.

Football is crazy sometimes.

I'm from Boston: if you don't like sports, they kick you out.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

More people care about LeBron James than some religious leader.

I like sports. I'm a big football fan. When I was a kid, I was a... I don't even know how to describe it... I was an obsessed Brooklyn Dodgers fan. And I think when they left Brooklyn, which was simultaneous with me starting college, everything changed, and I haven't had the same passion for sports.

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.