Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Gable

Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

Dan Gable

More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

Dan Gable

Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

Dan Gable

Once you've wrestled, everything in life is easy.

Dan Gable

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

Cynthia Rowley

Regarding wetsuits, I always liked the Marilyn Minter quote, 'Everything's better when wet,' injecting some style into sports utility,

Daniella Monet

I grew up doing a lot of extreme sports.

Dan Marino

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

Dan Marino

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

Dan Marino

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

Dan Marino

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

Dan Millman

Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes."

Dan Millman

Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

Dan Millman

Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!

Colson Whitehead

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

Dwight Morrow

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Dwight Gooden

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

Dwyane Wade

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

Dwyane Wade

When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.

I like playing many other sports, such as basketball.

Louis C. K.

I watch a lot of sports. But when I'm not working, I'm with my daughters every chance I get.

Louis C. K.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

Pierre de Coubertin

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Pierre de Coubertin

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Pierre de Coubertin

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Pierre de Coubertin

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Pierre de Coubertin

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Karch Kiraly

I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me. We started playing tournaments together when I was 11, in the lower ranking of beach volleyball in California. We weren't playing against kids; we played against grown men, so immediately, I had to raise my game to compete.

Karch Kiraly

The indoor game is much more of a team game, having to work effectively with a group of 15 to 20 people, striving to improve every day, every drill, even every contact. The beach game is much more of an individual game within a team sport, much less about organized practices with coaches and much more about just playing the game.