Quotes about sports
sports
In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. Geoff Stults
sports superstar television
He was the first superstar of sports television. Dick Enberg
sports men people
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 Law
sports looks rust
First you have to spread on the rust performer, then you add a coat of protective enamel, and then you spray on the satin finish so you look good. Vinny Testaverde
sports different kind
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 Wilberforce
sports retirement golf
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. William Wordsworth
sports men effort
Effort is a measure of a Man. William James
sports white surfing
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. William Finnegan
sports character men
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them. William Gilmore Simms
sports fun nice
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. Will Forte
sports athletic physical-things
When I was younger, I was very athletic and I always loved sports and physical things. Saoirse Ronan
sports rights people
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights. Samuel P. Huntington
sports new-york school
I never did any sports at school. It wasn't until I moved to America, to New York, when I was about 20 that I actually thought that if I wanted to be an actress I might have to start working out. Rebecca Mader
sports player psychology
He has the players too happy. Red Auerbach
sports boss inspirational-basketball
The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind. Red Auerbach
sports jobs people
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange. Richard Prince
sports football college
I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite. Verne Troyer
sports blessed athlete
To be a well-rounded person and know what's going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I'm blessed that our parents gave us that. Venus Williams
sports attitude athlete
Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to. Venus Williams
sports home competitors
If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home. Venus Williams
sports thinking years
Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves. Venus Williams
sports tennis preparation
In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. Venus Williams
sports passion thinking
The tragic incident of Luis Salom reminds us that our sport, our passion, is dangerous. We know it but, in a way, we don't think about it. Valentino Rossi
sports risk stay-calm
Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out. Valentino Rossi
sports night moon
I love both the sun and the moon, day and night. But I enjoy the day the most because I live in Rio and I can play sports. Rodrigo Santoro
sports team opposites
I fell in love with skateboarding because it was individual; there were no teams, there were no captains, there was nothing to perfect. No style that had to be measured. It was completely opposite of what I saw in so many sports. It was creative. And to this day, that's what I love, that's always kept me back to it because it's endless creation. Rodney Mullen
sports eye goal
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes. Roger Angell
sports baseball athlete
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports, its chilly claws and foul breath palpable around the neck hairs of the infielder bending for his crosshand scoop or the reliever slipping his first two fingers off-center on the ball seams before delivering his two-and-two cut fastball. Roger Angell
sports believe practice
Infield practice is more mystic ritual than preparation, encouraging the big-leaguer, no less than the duffer in the stands, to believe in spite of all evidence to the contrary, that playing ball is a snap. Roger Angell
sports baseball lines
Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps. Roger Angell
sports men judging
For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is... Robin Green
sports golf world
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. Robert Wilson Lynd
sports boys scouting
The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it. Robert Powell