Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Foster Wallace

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty.

David Foster Wallace

One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.

David Bailey

I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting.

Dave Checketts

Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.

Dave Bautista

I never excelled at one sport or had a very strong passion for anything other than wrestling and bodybuilding.

Dawn Fraser

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Dawn Fraser

If you're good at it, you can win.

Dawn Fraser

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Dawn Fraser

I've worked hard all my life.

Meryl Streep

The formula of happiness and success is just, being actually yourself, in the most vivid possible way you can.

Dennis Potter

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.

Debby Ryan

Music is such an intensely personal thing for me, and I knew if I was going to do it, it would be in my own way.

Jose Bergamin

Even if you're not going anywhere, don't get in the way.

Julian Casablancas

A band is a good way to break up a friendship.

Ellen Page

I'm really passionate about music - I get really emotionally connected, probably in a weird way.

Holly Black

You're yourself," Tana said, grinning. "More purely yourself than anyone I know. And if you can't see who that is anymore, then see yourself the way I see you.

Gore Verbinski

I always wanted to do an animated movie. I find it to be incredibly liberating as a way of telling a story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has since been meekly ratified by the mere facts.