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.

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.

Billie Jean King

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

Billie Jean King

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

Emily Hall

As a group, the funds have shown that you can do about as well in a screened universe as in a non-screened universe. But that doesn't mean all socially screened funds are good.

David Hale

Back when I gave that speech in March, some of my hedge fund friends thought it would be a big issue by the third quarter. But here we are, it's July, and it just hasn't seemed to register.

Lisa Bluder

It was a long wait. It seemed like forever. I wish we could relive it again., though, I wish we could see our name and relive it again, because that was a fun moment.

Marissa Brown

Things are going pretty well this year. It has been a lot of fun to be a part of this team.

Jason Giambi

This is the fun time of the year. This is what you play the whole season for. ... If you don't play (well) in September, there's no October.

James Saxton

This is not fun for anybody. There are jobs on the line here.

Daniel Berthiaume

This is not too much fun right now.

Linda Postenrieder

This is such a fun and good thing for these kids. The kids are so excited.

John Scalzi

The way that I write novels in particular is I don't usually outline; I just write. Part of the fun is discovering what's happening in the story as I'm going along.

Jesse McCartney

I've been reading script after script after script,

Bella Thorne

I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.

Alberto Manguel

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

Alfred Molina

And I think it's because good cons are all based on the victim's need, and the successful con artist is the one, I guess, who can exploit that. I remember reading something about this, that one of the great traits of confidence tricksters is the level that they flatter their victim.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Bible reading is an education in itself.

Donald Cram

I have always felt that I understood a phenomenon only to the extent that I could visualise it. Much of the charm organic chemical research has for me derives from structural formulae. When reading chemical journals, I look for formulae first.

Donald Barthelme

We like books that have a lot of dreck in them, matter which presents itself as not wholly relevant (or indeed, at all relevant) but which, carefully attended to, can supply a kind of "sense" of what is going on. This "sense" is not to be obtained by reading between the lines (for there is nothing there, in those white spaces) but by reading the lines themselves looking at them and so arriving at a feeling not of satisfaction exactly, that is too much to expect, but of having read them, of having "completed" them.

Dylan Thomas

Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.