Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck D.

I grew up as a sports fan, and I know that a hall of fame is very different than an award for being the best of the year. It's a nod to the longevity of our accomplishment.

Christy Mathewson

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Christopher Reeve

You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).

Anna Kournikova

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

Angela Ruggiero

I'm in the perfect position. It's a sports position and a political position where I can help better the lives of athletes around the world.

Angela Ruggiero

I look at myself, and how much I've gotten just because I play a sport well.

Angela Ruggiero

I find that I've tried to become a better hockey player every year and not just hold on. At the same time, I've also made it a point to increase or grow in some other area of my life. If I were just playing hockey, I would probably be done with the sport.

Angela Merkel

It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.

Althea Gibson

In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.

Philip Smith

If anyone should have the right or need to carry a gun, it should be the African-American community.

John Piper

O that we would so love the gospel and have so much compassion for lost people that tribulation and distress and persecution and famine and nakedness and danger and sword and gun and terrorist would turn us not into fearful complainers, but bold heralds of good news.

Martin McGuinness

Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

Martin McGuinness

The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door.

Nick Cave

Hamlet got a gun now.

Nick Cave

Guns are part of the American psyche, aren't they? This is collateral damage for having a Wild West mentality. It's intrinsic to the American psyche. It's never going to change.

Nicholas Pileggi

I know there are women, like my best friends, who would have gotten out of there the minute their boyfriend gave them a gun to hide, but I didn't. I gotta admit the truth: It turned me on.

Niger Innis

For black Americans, we know that gun control... sprouts from racist soil - be it after the or during the infamous Dred Scott case where black mans humanity was not recognized.

Niger Innis

One of the crises that we have to deal with is a crisis of law enforcement officials that are not physically capable enough to handle without taking out the gun.

Steve Wozniak

When you're providing a service to somebody, you're the guy they always call when something's wrong.

Steve Simmons

National coach John McKay has told me that it won't be easy but I want to make up for losing the 2003 Four Nations Tournament final here in the Kelvin Hall by beating this guy Santana.

Steve Mariucci

I've been a lucky guy.

Spike Lee

I'm not the go-to guy. Everybody is trying to tell their story and have different ways of telling it.

Silvia Colloca

I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

Sigourney Weaver

When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them.

Sigourney Weaver

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Shaun White

When I came back to skating, everyone was like 'Oh you're the snowboard guy.'

Shaun White

Generally, I'm a pretty mellow guy.