Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joey Galloway

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

Joey Cheek

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

Joe Royle

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

Joe Scarborough

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.

Joe Montana

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Joe Montana

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

Joe Namath

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

Joe Namath

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Joe Namath

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Joe Namath

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Joe Dante

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Joe DiMaggio

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Joe DiMaggio

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Joe DiMaggio

When baseball is no longer fun, it's no longer a game.

Joe DiMaggio

I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down.

Joe DiMaggio

The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

Jodi Picoult

She was all the things I wasn't. And i was all the things she wasn't. she could paint circles around anyone; I couldn't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. Her hand, it fit mine.

John Greenleaf Whittier

One brave deed makes no hero.

John Green

Chuck Parson did not participate in organized sports, because to do so would distract from his larger goal of his life: to one day be convicted of murder

Caroline Wozniacki

Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

Carmelo Anthony

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

Carmelo Anthony

There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.

Evo Morales

Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

Evander Holyfield

That's the biggest problem with boxing in the United States. They do not promote it like they used to, when it used to be Howard Cosell and they showed it on 'Wide World of Sports.' Everybody knew all the fighters. Everybody was looking forward to the year when the Olympics came on.

Evander Holyfield

It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

Eva Herzigova

But I was very much into sports when I was a child.

Cassandra Clare

There's nothing wild about me. I'm a solid middle-aged man." "Except that once a month you turn into a wolf and go tearing around slaughtering things," Clary said. "It could be worse," Luke said. "Men my age have been known to purchase expensive sports cars and sleep with supermodels.

Moby

There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.

Mindy Kaling

I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.

Mike Royko

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.