Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Summitt

The willingness to experiment with change may be the most essential ingredient to success at anything.

P. J. O'Rourke

Fishing is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.

Ozzy Osbourne

I was never good at sports. I was never good at exams, because they didn't understand dyslexia.

Paul Oakenfold

I would give the same advice to anyone, celebrity or not. Produce your own music, keep in original, and be real. You need to earn the respect of your fans for your original work in music, and not rely on your celebrity in other mediums. The same would apply for actors who sing, dance, or even play sports.

Paul Pierce

I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.

Paul Brown

Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.

Paul Brown

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

Paul Brown

A winner never whines.

Matthew Gray Gubler

I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.

Marion Jones

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Marion Jones

As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.

Marion Jones

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

Marion Jones

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Marisa Miller

I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

Paul Rodriguez

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

Paul Scheer

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago.

Paul Ryan

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

Paul Allen

Once you become an owner of a team, you get so much more into the sport and you can't help it. So I really love NFL football now to the degree of following it much more than I did previously.

Paul Allen

Traditionally, Seattle has been a great sports town and great football town. What the Huskies have achieved over the years has been pretty amazing. That's how I got my first taste of football - when I went with my father to Husky Stadium.

Paul Allen

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

Patrick Kane

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

Patrick Henry

We have not yet begun to fight.

Pat Cash

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Pat Conroy

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Pat Conroy

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Jurgen Klinsmann

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Judah Friedlander

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Knute Rockne

If we're a hit, let 'em say anything they want.

Knute Rockne

At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

Knute Rockne

If I flop, let 'em pan me.

Knute Rockne

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

Knute Rockne

I don't like to lose, and that isn't so much because it is just a football game, but because defeat means the failure to reach your objective. I don't want a football player who doesn't take defeat to heart, who laughs it off with the thought, "Oh, well, there's another Saturday." The trouble in American life today, in business as well as in sports, is that too many people are afraid of competition. The result is that in some circles people have come to sneer at success if it costs hard work and training and sacrifice.

Knute Rockne

Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.