Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sebastian Vettel

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Sebastian Vettel

I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.

Shirley Chisholm

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Sharni Vinson

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.

Shaquille O'Neal

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

Shaquille O'Neal

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

Shaquille O'Neal

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

Shannon Sharpe

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

Shannon Miller

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

Shannon Miller

If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

Shannon Miller

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

Seve Ballesteros

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

Lewis Mumford

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.

Lewis Thomas

I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.

Lesley Visser

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

Lesley Visser

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

Lesley Visser

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

Lawrence Dallaglio

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

Neil Simon

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Neil Simon

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Neil Peart

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

Neil Peart

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Neil Peart

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Neil Peart

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

Marc Bulger

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

Thomas a Kempis

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

Thomas A. Edison

The biggest failure of man is that he gives up before he realizes how close he was to success.

Thomas A. Edison

Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.

Sidney Crosby

It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.

Sidney Crosby

I think every athlete will tell you no matter what sport you're in, when you train so hard and when you care so much about doing what you do, there's a little bit of nerves that come with that. But nerves that won't prevent you form performing, nerves that, hopefully, allow you to be that much more motivated and inspired to do well.

Sheryl Swoopes

I have accomplished everything I set out to accomplish when I started playing the sport at 7. And probably even more.

Sheryl Swoopes

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women's sports have arrived.

Sheryl Swoopes

Be positive and work hard. I think it's possible to overcome anything, if you're willing to work at it.