Famous Quotes & Sayings

Yanni

Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.

Don Yaeger

Seeing the intensity and power she brings to the game, it's hard to imagine her being anything but single-minded in pursuing tennis. But Serena Williams has other passions, too. In fact, there doesn't seem to be enough time in the day, week or month for one of the world's most gifted athletes to chase her many interests.

Cathy Rigby

An athlete learns how to hold her breath, but that doesn't work in singing. You have to learn to relax.

Cathy Rigby

It's that athlete's obsessiveness - the need to prove yourself and work harder than anybody else. I think it's what helped me do well in the theater.

Bill Vaughan

You can be an ordinary athlete by getting away with less than your best. But if you want to be a great, you have to give it all you've got-your everything.

Bill Bowerman

The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn't make the athlete.

Bill Bradley

When the playing is over, one can sense that one's youth has been spent playing a game, and now both the game and youth are gone.

Bill Bradley

Behind all the years of practice and all the hours of glory waits that inexorable terror of living without the game.

John Yarmuth

The American people don't believe politicians. They don't believe business leaders or Hollywood celebrities or athletes or other supposed role models. And they certainly don't believe the news media.

Geoff Davis

Our all-volunteer force continues to prove itself with a great level of professionalism, personal commitment and a technical competence that is quite remarkable.

Sean Howard

The pastor made a commitment to them. He plans on keeping it.

Christopher Dodd

It's time to renew our commitment to the world around us.

Des Browne

It will require a sustained military and financial commitment by the international community, working with the government of Afghanistan, to create the environment in which enduring democratic institutions can be established.

Arnon Goldfinger

I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey.

Bill Vaughan

I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right; when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.

Abe Naparstek

We need to know if the Penguins are participating or not. The Penguins need to put money into this plan. It's a plan for the Penguins. They need to take the first step and make a commitment to the city.

E. Hicks

We have a life-long commitment to the handicapped.

Josh Krulewitz

We have a large commitment to these conferences. It's not that we don't want to show these games. It's that we already do.

Joe Martin

The pioneers are giving way to some of the big guys who can weather all the change.

C. S. Lewis

It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls.

Cecelia Ahern

Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

Carrie Snodgress

I decided I was going to be in love. I was going to give it everything I had. It was like heaven on that ranch. I don't know why we broke up. We never fought.

Carl Sagan

We can always take but never give.

Bethany Hamilton

God has a lot more to give and to offer than the world has to give.

Bethany Hamilton

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

Bethany Hamilton

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Bernadette Peters

Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get to be a no-kill city, and give the animals homes and more attention and love.