Famous Quotes & Sayings

Drew Bledsoe

I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.

Drew Carey

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

Drew Carey

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

Drew Barrymore

I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.

Douglas MacArthur

Competitive sports keep alive in us a spirit and vitality. Sports teach the strong to know when they are weak and the brave to face themselves when they are afraid; to be proud and unbowed in defeat, and yet humble and gentle in victory; to master ourselves before we attempt to master others; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; and to give the predominance of courage over timidity.

Douglas Rushkoff

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

Doug Johnson

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

Doug Ferguson

Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

Don Kardong

Without ice cream there would be darkness and chaos.

Bobby Fischer

FIDE has decided against my participation in the 1975 World Chess Champion title.

Jack Dempsey

Champions get up when they can't.

Bobby Douglas

I think Oklahoma State has a great team, and they've had a great run. (The Big 12 championships) have always been a tough tournament, and a lot of the national champions come out of this tournament. I don't think this year will be any different.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Of all wit's uses, the main one is to live well with who has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The divine gift is ever the instant life, which receives and uses and creates, and can well bury the old in the omnipotency with which Nature decomposes all her harvest for recomposition.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The days come and go but they say nothing, and if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them as silently away.

L. Ron Hubbard

Any information is valuable to the degree that you can use it. In other words, any information is valuable to the degree that you can make it yours. Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place. It is not only the science of life, but it is an account of what you were doing before you forgot what you were doing.

Marc Ostrofsky

Everyone knows what search engines are. But relatively few know how to use them effectively.

Natalie Portman

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Natalie Portman

Use Starbucks mints for every occasion—they're the strongest

Tara Lipinski

I am very competitive, so when I fail I use what I learned from that mishap to fuel success.