Famous Quotes
- A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.
- Olivia Munn on Sports
- A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky on Sports
- A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
- Jesse Owens on Sports
- A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
- Andy Murray on Sports
- A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.
- Ronald Graham on Sports
- A lot of these angles are really about trying to mimic broadcast sports angles in order to anchor the scene, to sort of normalize it before it becomes abstracted.
- Matthew Barney on Sports
- A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
- Jimmy Cannon on Sports
- A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.
- Eliot Spitzer on Sports
- A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back.
- Kim Alexis on Sports
- Absolutely the worst thing about this job is the travel and being away from family. I have a wife and three wonderful children, the kids are all active in sports and it's very difficult to up and leave and miss them growing up.
- Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
- Ambrose Bierce on Sports
- Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
- James E. Rogers on Sports
- Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.
- Chris Klein on Sports
- Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
- William Arthur Ward on Sports
- All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
- Gordie Howe on Sports
- All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.
- John Hodgman on Sports
- All I want to know is that I can keep this house for the rest of my days and I want to make good music... and have the odd sports car in the garage, obviously!
- All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.
- Dax Shepard on Sports
- All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
- Gerry Cooney on Sports
- All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games.
- Meyer Lansky on Sports
- All sports for all people.
- Pierre De Coubertin on Sports
- All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
- Pierre De Coubertin on Sports
- Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
- Carl Lewis on Sports
- Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.
- Arlen Specter on Sports
- And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
- Ed Bradley on Sports
- And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
- Ty Burrell on Sports
- And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
- Beau Bridges on Sports
- Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
- Doug Collins on Sports
- Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
- Elizabeth Price on Sports
- Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
- Phil Jackson on Sports
- As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
- Marion Jones on Sports
- As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.
- Robert Jay Lifton on Sports
- As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
- Tim Conway on Sports
- As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.
- Zach Braff on Sports
- 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 on Sports
- As a sophomore, I wanted to play varsity in three sports. And I accomplished that. It was a great feat that year, and something I held special. I wanted to bring a championship team to Oceanside High School, and it happened. It was a great year that I will never forget.
- Junior Seau on Sports
- As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.
- As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.
- James S. Coleman on Sports
- As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day.
- Michael Jordan on Sports
- As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
- Jeffrey Kluger on Sports
- As the proud father of two teens and past Chairman to the Presidents Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, I am committed to educating parents and especially young people on ways to live a long, healthy and active life.
- As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.
- John Hodgman on Sports
- At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
- Willie Mays on Sports
- Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
- Steven Van Zandt on Sports
- Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard on Sports
- Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
- George Bernard Shaw on Sports
- Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
- James Patrick Murray on Sports
- Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
- Peter Ueberroth on Sports
- Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
- Bill Veeck on Sports
- Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
- Joe Garagiola on Sports
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