Sports Spectacle Quotes

IPL is a T20 franchise tournament combining cricket and Bollywood to offer entertainment.

All-Star is something that's exciting for the fans: it's a way for the fans to see their favourite players all play at the same time.

If Dana White said he wanted to fight heavyweight, everybody would watch that fight tomorrow just because they want to watch Dana get beat up or win or whatever it is.

Modern day wrestlers are fans of the performance of wrestling instead of the concept of wrestling.

I can't imagine painting my face in a team colour and roaring with delight as a multi-millionaire kicks a ball at a net.

Look at a football field. It looks like a big movie screen. This is theatre. Football combines the strategy of chess. It's part ballet. It's part battleground, part playground. We clarify, amplify and glorify the game with our footage, the narration and that music, and in the end create an inspirational piece of footage.

Whatever you paid to see Michael Jordan it wasn't enough. You knew that every night out there you were gonna get the greatest concert of your life.

One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

The Super Bowl is Americana at its most kitsch and fun.

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history.

I want the whole world to watch me fight. But you know if people are just tuning in to hear me trash talk are not fight fans.

Before, when Bolt was in the race, it was about who's going to get second. You just come and want to watch Bolt run, it's always exciting because you know he always puts on a show.

I don't want the All-Star Game to be a one-time thing.

What attracted me to wrestling was the entertainment factor. I loved watching how into the show the fans get, and also how physical it is.

I'd 1,000 times rather go see an NBA game than a football match.

Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

There's not a better sporting spectacle than an evenly-matched fight.

The truth is, pro wrestling is such an incredibly vast, incredibly surreal world. There's no telling how many words could be written about the subject - especially when the subject involves WWE.

I'm the living proof that the WWE Universe wants to see wrestling. They want to see in-ring action.

I don't want to spoil this for anybody but wrestling, sports entertainment, is 'pre-determined.'

The excitement you can get in classical concert is as big, in a different sense, as you can get when you go to the ice hockey or baseball game.

Basketball has so much showboating you'd think it was invented by Jerome Kern.

Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao was one of the worst boxing matches I've ever seen, but millions of people watched it because of the personalities involved.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.