Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Stargell

We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto.

Willie Stargell

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

Willie Stargell

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

Willie Stargell

I always said that when it was time to retire, I would know it, and I would just tip my hat to the crowds.

Willie Stargell

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Willie Stargell

I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.

Willie Stargell

I love September, especially when we're in it.

Willie Stargell

Unfortunately, inner feelings and potential are often stunted by our parents, relatives or peers.

Willie Stargell

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

Willie Stargell

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

Willie Stargell

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Willie Stargell

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Willie Stargell

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Willie Stargell

Life is one big transition.

Willie Stargell

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Willie Stargell

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Willie Stargell

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

William Petersen

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

Yeardley Smith

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

In Nashville, they like their sports and they like their basketball, so if you're good, you're going to be pretty well known.

Marion Jones

I'm for a drug-free sport and always will be.

Michael Keaton

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

Neal Schon

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

Neal Stephenson

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

Morgan Wootten

You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.

Morihei Ueshiba

In extreme situations, the entire universe becomes our foe; at such critical times, unity of mind and technique is essential - do not let your heart waver!