Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

William Law

If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.

Vinny Testaverde

First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good.

Woody Allen

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.

William Wilberforce

Watering places - the sports of the field - cards! never-failing cards! - the assembly - the theater - all contribute their aid - amusements are multiplied, and combined, and varied, 'to fill up the void of a listless and languid life;' and by the judicious use of these different resources, there is often a kind of sober settled plan of domestic dissipation, in which with all imaginable decency year after year wears away in unprofitable vacancy.

William Wordsworth

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

William J. Clinton

When it comes to anything that's social, whether it's your family, your school, your community, your business or your country, winning is a team sport.

William James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

Richard D. James

My filing system's really crap because I can never decide whether to sort things by studio, or year, or where I lived.

Richard D. James

I've always got to change something. All the tracks I've done in the last five years were made in like six different studios. It gets a bit complicated.

Robbie Coltraine

Once you've been doing anything for twenty-five years people start to notice you.

Rob Sheffield

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

Rob Chapman

The way I have progressed as a writer over the years is to try and stay true to the principles I absorbed.

Rob Halford

They were and still are a groundbreaking band. Even though they haven't released any new music in ages, you can put on the first Black Sabbath album and it still sounds as fresh today as it did 30-odd years ago. And that's because great music has a timeless ability: To me, Sabbath are in the same league as the Beatles or Mozart. They're on the leading edge of something extraordinary.

Richard P. Feynman

If the professors of English will complain to me that the students who come to the universities, after all those years of study, still cannot spell 'friend,' I say to them that something's the matter with the way you spell friend.

Richard Dawkins

All qualified physicists, biologists, cosmologists and geologists agree, on the basis of massive, mutually corroborating evidence, that the earth's age is at least four billion years.

Russell Baker

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Joey Miller

I was looking at these guys on TV last year. Now I'm one of them. It's really awesome.

Tim Hanson

Jake is a very talented freshman. Our varsity lineup has some guys that will be running varsity for the first time, so it will be interesting to see.

Robyn Kass

Just like in real life, we don't want to settle. We really want this guy to be perfect.

Bill Dougherty

John Brennan is a very smart guy - no nonsense, abrasive, sharp, provocative.

Mike Bobo

Joe T. is a smart guy and he's going to prepare and he's going to be ready to play, ... We've just got to get him to relax and not feel like he's got to make things happen for us to win. It's a big game. When you walk up in the stadium, you can tell it's a special environment.

Jeff Tedford

Joe is going to be our guy and we're going to go with it.

Joe Girardi

J.J. seems to be the guy that when he pitches, we win. He's always down in the zone.

Josh Humlie

I actually wrestled the No. 1 seeded guy first. I didn't realize he was the No. 1 seeded guy until I after I wrestled him. The brackets were messed up, so I didn't know.

Jeff Gordon

He was a hard guy to hate even when we were trying to get a contract.