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.

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 James

Effort is a measure of a Man.

William Finnegan

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

Will Forte

I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.

Saoirse Ronan

When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things.

Yanni

I don't want problems solved for me. I want the fishing rod, not the fish.

Ty Burrell

I got a little bit of a sense for the subculture, which is the equivalent of any subculture, really. The stakes are high, even if you live in a small town. It's like the annual bass fishing contests, or whatever it is. The stakes are always absurdly high, and this is no different. The competition at this butter carving things, from what I understand, is not that far off from what we're depicting in the movie.

Samuel Johnson

A fishing rod is a stick with a hook at one end and a fool at the other.

Henry Beard

Advice to anglers: don't take advice from people with missing fingers.

Neko Case

I know that I can sing really loud. It's like having that really big Evinrude engine on the back of your fishing boat. But I've been trying to be more dynamic with my voice, and not just singing on 10 all of the time out of terror.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

[On fishing:] Greatest rest in the world for the brain.

Mark Twain

In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere.

Ted Williams

I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen.

Henry Paulson

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

Julia Sawalha

I love finding things. I love digging around in the dirt. It's part of my Virgo. It's like acting, really. You're always searching around for something and finding little hidden treasures.

Justin Vernon

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

Ron Hays

Their food was buried. I saw them digging for food.

Edward de Bono

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper

Mike Huckabee

Quit Digging Your Grave with a Knife and Fork.

James Allan

This is awesome. Everybody gets excited about this. It makes digging in all that mud worthwhile.

George Howard

We've had some great waves today. We're digging it. Big time. I'm hoping to see at least eight to ten, maybe even 12.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Then I’ll do some digging. (Fury) You just can’t help this kamikaze streak you have, can you? (Sasha)

Michelangelo Antonioni

My work is like digging, it's archaeological research among the arid materials of our times. That's how I understand my first films, and that's what I'm still doing...