Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jai Courtney

I've always played sport. I played rugby, I was involved in athletics, I played cricket... I'm an outdoors kind of guy.

Jackie Chan

You cannot mix sports with politics.

Jennette McCurdy

Oh yeah, I'm definitely a tomboy! I love sports, hate dresses, don't own a single pair of high-heels, am not a fan of makeup, and I'm not afraid to get messy!

Jennifer Beals

I think that the two of them have been doing this for a really long time and it is more like sport. Yes, they would love to find a lasting relationship, but it's not likely to happen the way they are going about it.

Jennifer Beals

Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.

Jennie Finch

The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.

Jennie Finch

My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.

Jennie Finch

Seeing women on television was very important to me. It opened my eyes to the possibilities of women's sports. It showed me what I could do and who I could be.

Jennie Finch

I didn't really get into boys until my junior year of high school, when I had my first boyfriend. But for the most part I was always playing sports, so I was too busy for them!

Jennie Finch

When you train six to seven hours a day to be the best in your sport, you don't want that to be overlooked. I don't train for my looks.

Jennie Finch

I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

Jennifer Aniston

I don't like injustice. We're living in a time where, whether it's the Internet or tabloids, being sh-tty has become a sport. We're just grown-up bullies.

Jeanne Moreau

In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.

Jean Patou

When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - bedraggled.

Giacomo Casanova

They are the follies inherent to youth; I make sport of them, and, if you are kind, you will not yourself refuse them a good-natured smile.

Gerald R. Ford

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

Gerald R. Ford

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Gerald R. Ford

I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.

Jess Walter

For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.

Jesse Eisenberg

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s.

Jeremy Roenick

I'm obviously into the sports. The NFL games and the NHL games.

Jeremy Roenick

We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.

Jeremy Roenick

You can't just go outside and play hockey. It's more of an expensive sport.

Jenna Bush

I was sports editor for my high school newspaper, but I think I shied away from journalism.

Glenn Beck

...the people who talk most about the need to regulate guns are also usually the same people who know the least about them. Ask these gun prohibitionists about the Second Amendment and they'll usually mention hunting or sport shooting.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

Harry Vardon

Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.

Harsha Bhogle

Sometimes, quite out of the blue, sport will throw up a tender moment, when hostility ceases and an opponent is acknowledged.

Harsha Bhogle

In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting, material possessions.

Harsha Bhogle

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

Harry Stack Sullivan

It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.

Harry Sinden

Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.