Sport quotes

“I played professional level sports. When you're playing for money, it's a whole other level.”
Kurt Russell

“- Grandma: I used to go to ballet.
- Billy: See?
- Dad: All right for your nana, for girls. No, not for lads, Billy. Lads do football or boxing or wrestling. Not friggin' ballet.”
Jean Heywood - Grandma
Jamie Bell - Billy
Gary Lewis - Dad

“Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.”
Cheech Marin

“- Terry: All you ever talk about is becoming a pro hockey player, but there's a problem: you're not any good.
- Happy Gilmore: I am good. You know what, you're a lousy kindergarten teacher. I've seen those finger-paintings you bring home and they suck.”
Nancy Hillis - Terry
Adam Sandler - Happy Gilmore

“Rugby is a very rough game, almost as rough as politics.”

Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

“How is it that the ultimate prize in the most macho sport ever invented is a piece of jewelry?”
Jennifer Garner - Ali

“That look like hockey to you? To me it looks like two monkeys trying to hump a football.”
Kurt Russell - Herb Brooks

“- Courtney: Why does everyone have to go on a diet?
- Sparky Polastri: Because in cheerleading we throw people into the air. And fat people don't go as high.”
Clare Kramer - Courtney
Ian Roberts - Sparky Polastri

“If projectile vomiting ever becomes an Olympic event, you would do your country proud.”

Sir John Gielgud - Hobson

“- Roy McAvoy: There's only one other acceptable theory about how to hit the ball.
- Dr. Molly Griswold: Oh, boy, well, I'm afraid to ask. What is it?
- Roy McAvoy: Grip it and rip it.”
Kevin Costner - Roy McAvoy
Rene Russo - Dr. Molly Griswold

“I hear in Canada you only have sex doggy style; that way you can both see the hockey game.”
Rodney Dangerfield - Wally Sparks

“One day, not today, not tomorrow, not this season, probably not next season either but one day, you and I are gonna wake up and suddenly we're gonna be like every other team in every other sport where winning is everything and nothing else matters.”
Matthew McConaughey - Jack Lengyel

“I want you to take part in it. I want to compare faith to running in a race. It's hard. It requires concentration of will, energy of soul. You experience elation when the winner breaks the tape - especially if you've got a bet on it. But how long does that last? You go home. Maybe your dinner's burnt. Maybe you haven't got a job. So who am I to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ian Charleson - Eric Liddell

“- Regent Chairman: This is not a football vocational school. It's an institute for higher learning.
- Sam Winters: Yeah, but when was the last time 80,000 people showed up to watch a kid do a damn chemistry experiment?”
Dan Hannafin - Regent Chairman
James Caan - Sam Winters

“- Thunderlips: Good match.
- Rocky Balboa: Hey why'd you get so crazy on me out there?
- Thunderlips: That's the name of the game.”

Hulk Hogan - Thunderlips
Sylvester Stallone - Rocky Balboa

“Everybody listen up. The Gridiron is a football field. On the Gridiron, we do it my way, not your way. Your way got you here. Whatever gang you claim, whatever hood you're from, this is your hood now.”
The Rock - Sean Porter

“- Jim Carr: Denis, I know that some in our audience don't know the finer points of hockey. Could you tell them, for example, what is icing?
- Denis: Well, um, icing happen when the puck come down, bang you know, before the other guys you know. Nobody there, you know. My arm go comme ça then the game stop then start up.”
Andrew Duncan - Jim Carr
Yvon Barrette - Denis

“Let's open up a can of kick ass and kill them all, let the paramedics sort them out.”
Duane Davis - Alvin Mack

“Double or nothing.”
Omar Epps - Quincy McCall

“It’s the battle, the going to war with the other guys, hanging together, having our own dorm, staying in hotels the night before the games, setting ourselves apart, being different than everybody else, having a chance to be somebody, to do something that people look up to you for, your strength, your courage, not everybody can play football,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Andrew Bryniarski - Steve Lattimer

“You're gonna die, clown!”

Adam Sandler - Happy Gilmore

“- Happy Gilmore: I got into this tournament for one reason: money. And now I have a new reason: kicking your ass!
- Shooter McGavin: Well, I'd like to see you try.
- Happy Gilmore: [Picks up beer bottle and smashes it in half] Let's do it, then!
- Shooter McGavin: I meant on a golf course!”
Adam Sandler - Happy Gilmore
Christopher McDonald - Shooter McGavin

You know, there's a rule in sports, "don't do anything great if you can't handle the congratulations".
Himself - John Madden

“In Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.”
Eli Roth

“- Timo Cruz: Teachers ain't supposed to touch students.
- Coach Ken Carter: I'm not a teacher. I'm the new basketball coach.”
Rick Gonzalez - Timo Cruz
Samuel L. Jackson - Coach Ken Carter