Famous Quotes
- If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.
- Michael Mandelbaum on Sports
- If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.
- Richard Ford on Sports
- If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
- James Collins on Sports
- 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 Petersen on Sports
- If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.
- Tom Welling on Sports
- If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
- Bruce Jenner on Sports
- If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
- Charles Barkley on Sports
- If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
- Larry King on Sports
- If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi on Sports
- If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
- Tommy Bolt on Sports
- If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
- Dean Martin on Sports
- If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
- Shaquille O'Neal on Sports
- If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
- Edward G. Rendell on Sports
- If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
- John Major on Sports
- If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
- Phil Jackson on Sports
- If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
- Jack Lemmon on Sports
- If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice.
- Jimmy Fallon on Sports
- If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
- Marilyn Monroe on Sports
- In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
- Maurice Greene on Sports
- In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
- Martina McBride on Sports
- In fact, there's a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
- Chad Harbach on Sports
- In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.
- In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.
- Greg Louganis on Sports
- In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
- Fran Tarkenton on Sports
- In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke winning it twice proves you are the best.
- Althea Gibson on Sports
- In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
- Joe Montana on Sports
- In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
- Althea Gibson on Sports
- In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
- Lisa Guerrero on Sports
- In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
- Billie Jean King on Sports
- In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
- Venus Williams on Sports
- In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.
- Andy Roddick on Sports
- In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
- Linda Ronstadt on Sports
- It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
- Angela Merkel on Sports
- It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
- Robert Wilson Lynd on Sports
- It is incredible how far women have come and women in sports have come.
- Jennie Finch on Sports
- It sounds like a cliche, but it... you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.
- Kenny Chesney on Sports
- It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.
- Neil Peart on Sports
- It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
- Patricia Heaton on Sports
- It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
- It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.
- Cindy Crawford on Sports
- It's funny I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.
- Corey Stoll on Sports
- It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
- Mark Twain on Sports
- It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
- Muhammad Ali on Sports
- It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.
- Dick Schaap on Sports
- It's not just the kid who's spent every penny from his job to upgrade his car to tell the world he cares about sports cars, it's also the person driving around in a fuel-conscious hybrid electric car, because it's more a message to the world than an effective means of saving fuel, to be quite honest.
- Richard Hammond on Sports
- It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
- Roger Goodell on Sports
- It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
- William Sloane Coffin, Jr. on Sports
- Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.
- Brandi Chastain on Sports
- Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
- Gabrielle Union on Sports
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