Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Rose

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

Pete Rose

Never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

Pete Rose

Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal.

Pete Rose

I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball.

Pete Rose

Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.

Pete Rose

I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

Pete Rose

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Pete Rose

Hitting. That's what I enjoy most. Realistically, it's probably the hardest thing to do in all of sport. Think about it. You've got a round ball, a round bat, and the object is to hit it square.

Pete Rose

You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

Phyllis Diller

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

Rachel Griffiths

I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports.

Rachel Cohn

That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.

Rabindranath Tagore

It dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances, it dances. It sports a mosaic of passions like a peacock’s tail, It soars to the sky with delight, it quests, Oh wildly, it dances today, my heart, like a peacock it dances.

Kohei Uchimura

I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

Kobe Bryant

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Kim Smith

The best part of being a pro is being able to travel around the world. I have met so many incredible people and experienced different cultures all through sport.

Kim Smith

I think in most sports sometimes you need a little luck for the ball or calls to roll your way.

Kevin Harvick

That's exactly the reason I'm leaving RCR because you've got those punk-ass kids coming up. They've got no respect for what they do in this sport and they've had everything fed to them with a spoon.

Kevin Harvick

I think racing in Mexico will prove to be a great move for our sport in the future. The reaction we received from the fans last year was outstanding. The fans were unbelievable, and I expect the same reaction this year.

Kevin James

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston baby and I'm a New York guy.

Kevin Keegan

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

Kevin Keegan

The Germans only have one player under 22, and he's 23!

Kevin Hart

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger.

Kevin Hart

The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

Kenny Wallace

It’s been a long four years for Junior Nation. I am happy for his fans and NASCAR. Now, let’s celebrate this win and help our sport grow. I have thought that ever since we took all our eyes and undivided attention off of Dale Jr. and gave him some breathing room, he was able to be more himself and relax a bit. Some of that pressure left him. Today we just saw the ‘Old Dale Jr.,’ the one we’ve been looking for, for a long time. He is back.

Ralph Kiner

The Mets just had their first .500-or-better April since July of 1992.

Rachel Stevens

I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

Rahul Dravid

A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.

Rahul Dravid

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Sport is the bloom and glow of a perfect health. The great will not condescend to take anything seriously; all must be as gay as the song of a canary, though it were the building of cities, or the eradication of old and foolish churches and nations, which have cumbered the earth long thousands of years.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.