Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ashton Eaton

I want to see where I measure up against everyone in the world and everyone who has ever competed in the sport, and there's that innate sense of wanting to challenge myself. I'm competitive in all aspects.

Arthur Ashe

My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.

Jamie Foxx

I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.

Carroll Shelby

In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

Charles Barkley

There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

Jason Collins

I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation. I wish I wasn't the kid in the classroom raising his hand and saying, 'I'm different.' If I had my way, someone else would have already done this. Nobody has, which is why I'm raising my hand.

Conor McGregor

I always think street but train sport.

Boris Becker

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

Bobby Knight

Do what needs to be done, when it needs to be done the best way it can be done, and do it that way every time.

Tom Wilson

If you spend all of your time racing ahead to the future, you're liable to discover you've left a great present behind.

Frank Shorter

Again, racing for me was about energy management.

Charlie Kimball

I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

Colin Chapman

Simplify and add lightness

Ayn Rand

In this world, either you're virtuous or you enjoy yourself. Not both, lady, not both.

Bryant H. McGill

The conflicts we have with the outside world are often conflicts we have within ourselves.

Janine Benyus

Cooperation in the most natural thing in the world

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Bob Dylan

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Eckhart Tolle

The whole world changes when there's presence - sunlight everywhere - because you're not separate from the world.

Elif Safak

What is the point of roaming the world when it's the same misery everywhere?

Bruce Barton

As a profession advertising is young; as a force it is as old as the world.