Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Maher

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

Bill Maher

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

Bill Maher

Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?

Bikram Choudhury

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

Bill Belichick

I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.

Beth Brooke

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

Bob Lilly

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way. He is extremely generous as well. How many artists are willing to donate some of their best works to charity? The Texas Sports Hall of Fame has benefited greatly from Medlock's donated paintings, which are the cornerstones of our auction!

Bob McKenzie

If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

Bill Toomey

I think that money has changed my sport.

Bill Toomey

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Bill Toomey

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

Bill Walsh

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Bill Walton

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Bill Walton

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

Bill Walton

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Bill Walton

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Bill Watterson

No sport is less organized than Calvinball.

Bill Watterson

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Bill Watterson

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

George Will

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

William Shakespeare

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

Will Self

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Byron Katie

As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.

Bryant Gumbel

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.

Bryan Adams

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

Chad Harbach

It's very hard right now to be a pro sports fan. The economics of this stuff is abysmal.

Chad Harbach

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.

Chad Harbach

I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.

Chad Harbach

In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

Chad Harbach

My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.

Chad Harbach

But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.