Sports Metaphor Quotes

Baseball was a metaphor for America, both here and in terms of how it was understood by the rest of the world.

Even in high school, I was balanced. It's just that my run plays were dynamic.

Sports is a terrific metaphor that's hardly been touched on TV.

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.

I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.

Life is a soccer field, don't you think?

I think all good sports movies aren't really about sports.

Be a player; don't play yourself. And don't play basketball. That's not your sport, Jeb Bush.

The art of cursing people seems to have lost its tang since the old days when a good malediction took four deep breaths to deliverand sent the outfielders scurrying toward the fence to field.

The fact that Judge [Samuel] Alito is such a baseball fan gives me even more confidence that he knows the proper role of a judge.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.

Football's like a big market place and people go to the market every day to buy their vegetables.

If Shakespeare can compare all of life to a stage, maybe it's not odd to believe that part of the play can take place on a basketball court.

I did not know that Ramos would prefer to send his ball up to the heavens.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.

Any athletic coach or manager who tells players that their game is like being in a war, has never been in a war. War is a dirty business and should never be compared to sports. It is an insult to those who have fought in a war. .

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

Am I the Cristiano Ronaldo of Sassuolo? Maybe yes, but I'm 500 goals away.

Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I've never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.

It flew towards the roof of the net like a Wurlitzer

Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying.