Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Rushkoff

Fantasy sports went a long way toward developing the sabermetrics formulas used not only by oddsmakers but general managers in hiring players. So the amateur fantasists ended up creating some of the algorithms that Oakland GM Billy Bean's statisticians used to win games with less salary money available for star players.

Doug Johnson

The smaller the detail the greater the value.

Don Baylor

It's what you've been a part of for so long. I don't think I can watch a game without an interest in who wins.

Don Baylor

I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.

Don Drysdale

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Don King

There's nothing wrong with options. Options are everywhere. In movies, in sports. Options is not a dirty word. I need to pay my overheads, you know. I invest a lot of money developing a fighter and then I deserve to reap the rewards.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have just realized that it is due to you, and to Mr. James Thomas and his staff of the Army Navy Country Club that the putting green here on the White House lawn is already in such excellent condition. I assure you that I get a great deal of pleasure and relaxation out of using the green in an occasional late afternoon hour . . .

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.

Jenny Slate

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

Ernest Hemingway

I wish I had died before I ever loved anyone but her.

George Washington

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

We do not understand that life is paradise, for it suffices only to wish to understand it, and at once paradise will appear in front of us in its beauty.

Cassandra Clare

Alec keeps sending me annoying photos. Lots of captions like Wish you were here, except not really.

Franz Wright

I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!

Jeanette Winterson

Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one