Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Swann

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Haruki Murakami

Team sports aren't my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don't need a partner to go running, you don't need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.

Joe Warren

You guys have to understand that I started in as deep of waters as there is. I've been the underdog since the first time I put gloves on. I love my fans but I don't give a crap about who thinks who is gonna win or not. This isn't a team sport. I'm the one that has to deal with the person fighting in front of me.

Joe Torre

Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.

Joe Louis

Once that bell rings you're on your own. It's just you and the other guy.

Joe Manganiello

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.

Joachim Low

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

James Taylor

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

James McAvoy

I like playing sport, and I like doing physical stuff. I like hiking and I like climbing and I like playing sport. I do a lot. But I don't like the term 'exercising.' I feel like with sport, you're playing games. But with exercise, you're literally just trying to stop yourself from dying too young. It's weird.

Emerson Fittipaldi

When I came to America Al Unser, Jr. was very difficult. And Bobby Unser.

Ellen Page

I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

Elayne Boosler

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Perseverance is a great element of success.

Hedy Lamarr

I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.

Herschel Walker

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.

Harlan Coben

I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.

Grantland Rice

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Graydon Carter

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

John Madden

The greatest gap in sports is between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl. The winner has confetti, parades, rings, the whole thing. The loser puts his head down and goes to his house.

Jimmy Connors

Tennis would be much more exciting if they had pitching machines firing Tennis was given to me to keep me off the street corners of east St. Louis.

Jim Leach

No activity I know is more of a confidence builder and at the same time more 'humility training' than wrestling.

Jim Sensenbrenner

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes.

Joan Sutherland

Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If youre a sportsman or youre a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what youre doing at any given time.

Joanna Baillie

Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

George Matthew Adams

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

It's one of the sports that is better to watch that way.

They are sports in their own right. They just aren't traditional sports.

I tried other sports and it wasn't as fun. It must be in the blood, I guess.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Dhani Jones

when I was younger I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. In the book, that's how all the sports helped me in my strategies for football and life.

Dave Chappelle

I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

David Millar

Survival is the main objective. There are going to be some awful days, I know that from my background in the sport.

David Lauren

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.