Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah Dessen

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

Sandra Day O'Connor

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Ronnie O'Sullivan

My dad's method in his madness was to try every sport and then observe what I liked. I played football, tennis, golf, cricket but I loved my snooker.

Ronnie Lott

The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.

Every person working in sports journalism today owes a tremendous debt to Howard Cosell. His greatest contribution was elevating sports reporting out of daily play-by-play and placing it in the larger context of society.

Rooney Mara

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Roland Barthes

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

Roger Moore

Rowing is a simple sport stuffed up by experts

Roger Bannister

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.

Roger Bannister

I enjoy singing, and the instruments which truly move me are the horn, the trumpet and the cello.

Roger Bannister

When I was about to break a world record and become well known, my mother used to say that for her the important thing was for me to become a doctor - a career which had not been possible in her generation and in her society. Sport was something to be set aside.

Roger Bannister

My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.

Roger Bannister

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.

Roger Bannister

It's a question of spreading the available energy, aerobic and anaerobic, evenly over four minutes. If you run one part too fast, you pay a price. If you run another part more slowly your overall time is slower.

Roger Bannister

If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always be keen to do it. I loved the countryside.

Roger Bannister

I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running.

Roger Bannister

The reason sport is attractive to many of the general public is that it's filled with reversals. What you think may happen doesn't happen. A champion is beaten, an unknown becomes a champion.

Roger Bannister

Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

Roger Bannister

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances.

Roger Ebert

I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

Rod Laver

The time your game is most vulnerable is when you're ahead, never let up.

Robin Roberts

“You don't have to be in shape to bowl. It's the only sport where there's a way to signal for a cocktail waitress.”

William Faulkner

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Willem Dafoe

I was doing community theater, and I was always interested in acting, but I was also interested in sports. I was interested in a lot of things. I was a pretty normal guy. I wasn't like a guy who grew up in a dark theater watching movies.

Wil Wheaton

When I was a boy I was called a nerd all the time — because I didn’t like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool — and it hurt a lot. Because it’s never ok when a person makes fun of you for something you didn’t choose. You know, we don’t choose to be nerds. We can’t help it that we like these things — and we shouldn’t apologize for liking these things.

Warren Moon

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

Warren Moon

Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.

Warren Moon

I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.

Warren Spahn

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

Warren Spahn

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Ronald Reagan

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Yannick Noah

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.