Famous Quotes & Sayings

Venus Williams

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

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

Venus Williams

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Venus Williams

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

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.

Valentino Rossi

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

Our sport is dangerous. We risk the life out there, so we need to stay calm and focused and leave all the rest out.

Rodrigo Santoro

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.

Rodney Mullen

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.

Roger Angell

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

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

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

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.

Robin Green

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...

Robert Wilson Lynd

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Robert Powell

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

Sasha Cohen

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

Satchel Paige

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Satchel Paige

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

Satchel Paige

When a batter swings and I see his knees move, I can tell just what his weaknesses are then I just put the ball where I know he can't hit it.

Sasha Azevedo

To believe in yourself and to follow your dreams... This is success!

Sanjeev Bhaskar

I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.

Sandy Koufax

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

Samuel Johnson

He that applauds him who does not deserve praise, is endeavoring to deceive the public; he that hisses in malice or sport, is an oppressor and a robber.

Wayne Dyer

You have a very powerful mind that can make anything happen as long as you keep yourself centered.

Wayne Pacelle

If we could shut down all sport hunting in a moment, we would.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Is duty a mere sport, or an employ! Life an entrusted talent or a toy!

William Cowper

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

Wayne Gretzky

I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Tony Parker

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

Tyson Gay

I've dated athletes before but it's too tough because we have the same job, we deal with the same problems and both do a very selfish sport,

Robert Hughes

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.