Dave Barry Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Football, Winter

• Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.

  Dave Barry

  Movie, Sports, Art

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

  Dave Barry

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

  Dave Barry (1985). “Dave Barry's Stay Fit and Healthy Until You're Dead”, p.32, Rodale

• Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Team, Commitment

• Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sports, Humor

• One night in Tokyo we watched two Japanese businessmen saying good-night to each other after what had clearly been a long night of drinking, a major participant sport in Japan. These men were totally snockered, having reached the stage of inebriation wherein every air molecule that struck caused them to wobble slightly, but they still managed to behave more formally than Americans do at funerals.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Good Night, Sports

• The Olympic movement simply cannot allow the Russians to become estranged, because Russia is a vital part of the world sports community, in the sense of having nuclear missiles.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sports, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.57, Crown Archetype

• Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Trying, Literature

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.88, Ballantine Books

• But my point is that competitive eating is a real sport, and I considered taking it up. But when I thought about what this would mean sitting around for hours, stuffing my face with unhealthy food I realized it was basically the same thing as journalism.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Real, Mean

• The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63 kg or the weights they lifted weighed 63 kg. Or possibly the temperature in the weightlifting hall was 63 kg. There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a "kg" is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Mean, Class

• I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Cheating, Differences

  Dave Barry (2003). “Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism”, p.46, Crown Archetype

• Palestinian and Israeli leaders finally recover the Road Map to Peace, only to discover that, while they were looking for it, the Lug Nuts of Mutual Interest came off the Front Left Wheel of Accommodation, causing the Sport Utility Vehicle of Progress to crash into the Ditch of Despair.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Nuts, Mutual Interest

  Dave Barry (2007). “Dave Barry's History of the Millennium (So Far)”, p.98, Penguin

• Dogsled-riding is a sport that is relaxing as well as fragrant.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Riding, Wells

• Men have no cause to criticize women about the way they are about weddings. Because men are like that about sports, but it never ends. At least women, after the wedding, say it wasn't that big a deal and they're never going to look at the DVD again. Men never stop being crazy about sports.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Crazy, Men

  "Dave Barry has snakes on the brain". Interview with Kevin Nance, www.chicagotribune.com. January 25, 2013.

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