Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 63

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Image of P. J. O'Rourke
Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.
- P. J. O'Rourke
Collection: Sports
Image of Moby
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction.
- Moby
Collection: Sports
Image of Lewis Black
Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal!
- Lewis Black
Collection: Sports
Image of Martina Navratilova
The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?
- Martina Navratilova
Collection: Sports
Image of Martina Navratilova
On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
- Martina Navratilova
Collection: Sports
Image of Diana Ross
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
- Diana Ross
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack Nicholson
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.
- Jack Nicholson
Collection: Sports
Image of George A. Sheehan
Sport is an essential element of education.
- George A. Sheehan
Collection: Sports
Image of William Shakespeare
There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sports
Image of Andy Warhol
Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.
- Andy Warhol
Collection: Sports
Image of Thomas Sowell
Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.
- Thomas Sowell
Collection: Sports
Image of Vladimir Putin
It is impossible to solve health problems of millions of people with the help of pills. People need to put it into practice, have passion for it; healthy lifestyle, fitness and sports should become fashionable.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Sports
Image of William Tecumseh Sherman
To secure the safety of the navigation of the Mississippi River I would slay millions. On that point I am not only insane, but mad... I think I see one or two quick blows that will astonish the natives of the South and will convince them that, though to stand behind a big cottonwood and shoot at a passing boat is good sport and safe, it may still reach and kill their friends and families hundreds of miles off. For every bullet shot at a steamboat, I would shoot a thousand 30-pounder Parrots into even helpless towns on Red, Ouachita, Yazoo, or wherever a boat can float or soldier march.
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Collection: Sports
Image of Hope Solo
I have given my life to the game and to the sport.
- Hope Solo
Collection: Sports
Image of Henry David Thoreau
Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?
- Henry David Thoreau
Collection: Sports
Image of Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Collection: Sports
Image of Neil deGrasse Tyson
You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, "That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?"
- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Collection: Sports
Image of 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.
- Elayne Boosler
Collection: Sports
Image of Katie Price
I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG.
- Katie Price
Collection: Sports
Image of Rafael Nadal
Two weeks ago, I was in a fantastic situation, winning at Roland Garros. Now, losing in the first round, it's tough. The tour continues. Life continues. This is a sport of victories, not a sport of losses. Nobody remembers the losses. I don't want to remember the loss.
- Rafael Nadal
Collection: Sports
Image of Daniel Tosh
I think pro-athletes should be forced to use steroids. I think we as fans deserve the greatest athletes science can create! Lets go! Anything that will make you run faster, jump higher! I have High-Definition TV! I want my athletes like my video games! Lets go! I could care less if you die at 40. You hate life after sports anyways. I'm doing you a favor.
- Daniel Tosh
Collection: Sports
Image of Daniel Tosh
I assume the only reason we have them is so that white people feel relevant in sports. Because other than that the only thing the winter Olympics show me is which country has more rich white kids. What's it cost to go skiing - $900 a day? I can't believe that's not more popular in the inner cities.
- Daniel Tosh
Collection: Sports
Image of Matt Smith
I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.
- Matt Smith
Collection: Sports
Image of William Shakespeare
Misery makes sport to mock itself.
- William Shakespeare
Collection: Sports
Image of John Wooden
It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.
- John Wooden
Collection: Sports
Image of Cass Sunstein
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law.
- Cass Sunstein
Collection: Sports
Image of Samantha Power
I was interning in the CBS sports affiliate in Atlanta with Robin Roberts.... I was taking notes on a Braves-Padres game, and on the live feed came footage of these kids protesting and getting crushed during the Tiananmen Square uprising in China in 1989. In that moment I became like a lot of young people in this country today, horrified and inspired but confused as to what I might do.
- Samantha Power
Collection: Sports
Image of Ovid
In our play we reveal what kind of people we are.
- Ovid
Collection: Sports
Image of George Bernard Shaw
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.
- George Bernard Shaw
Collection: Sports
Image of Vladimir Putin
Russia always has been, and I hope always will be, one of the leading international sports countries. Our athletes still produce great results in international competition, set new records and win gold medals. Yes, like any country, we might have experienced certain ups and downs with regard to results, but in no way does this cast any doubt on Russia's status as one of the leading countries in sport.
- Vladimir Putin
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack Nicholson
I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.
- Jack Nicholson
Collection: Sports
Image of Iris Murdoch
It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.
- Iris Murdoch
Collection: Sports
Image of Catherine Zeta-Jones
I've always wanted to hunt another human being for sport, even though I know his fear will taint the taste of the meat.
- Catherine Zeta-Jones
Collection: Sports
Image of Dan Millman
Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes."
- Dan Millman
Collection: Sports
Image of David Beckham
I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.
- David Beckham
Collection: Sports
Image of Jerry Springer
I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest.
- Jerry Springer
Collection: Sports
Image of Deb Caletti
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success. Forcing him into these brutal encounters will a) make a dame sure he is a success, and b) all you to see evidence of that success with the added bonus of a cheering crowd. This means that sports are supported with an almost desperate enthusiasm. The football team gets catered dinners before a fame. Honor Society is lucky if it gets a cupcake. Academic success-forget it. That requires too much imagination. There's no scoreboard.
- Deb Caletti
Collection: Sports
Image of Apolo Ohno
The older I get, the more and more I notice I'm like my father. It's funny, because when I was younger I tried to just back away from my father as much as I could, and some of the philosophies, some of the life lessons, some of the beliefs that he had within me are always constantly ongoing, and they're always prevalent in my life, whether it's trying to be every single thing that I can be in my sport or life or relationship or business, whatever avenue I'm pursuing.
- Apolo Ohno
Collection: Sports
Image of Anthony Bourdain
If you're training in a combat sport, deliciousness takes a backseat.
- Anthony Bourdain
Collection: Sports
Image of Myles Munroe
We need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with the laws of God so that we can bring those laws into effect.
- Myles Munroe
Collection: Sports
Image of Kerri Walsh
I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.
- Kerri Walsh
Collection: Sports
Image of Kerri Walsh
As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system.
- Kerri Walsh
Collection: Sports
Image of Jerry Saltz
Being critical of art is a way of showing art respect. No sports writer would say, "Well the Yankees had a great season this year." No food critic would get a bad meal and say, "Oh, it was so lovely." It always strikes me as odd when people say, "Why do you write negatively about any art?" I think that everybody has mixed feelings about everything - even Goya. I mean, I look at Rembrandt sometimes and I hear a voice in my head go, "It's pretty brown."
- Jerry Saltz
Collection: Sports
Image of Anthony Trollope
A man can't do what he likes with his coverts.
- Anthony Trollope
Collection: Sports
Image of George Will
There is an aura of changelessness to sport. There is the flux of competition, but it occurs within the ordering confinement of clear rules.
- George Will
Collection: Sports
Image of George Will
Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.
- George Will
Collection: Sports
Image of George Will
Baseball is Heaven's gift to mortals.
- George Will
Collection: Sports
Image of John Updike
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty, but it is their putting nerves that go, not their swings. For a duffer like [me], the room for improvement is so vast that three lifetimes could be spent roaming the fiarways carving away at it, convinced that perfection lies just over the next rise. And that hope, perhaps, is the kindest bliss of all that golf bestows upon its devotees.
- John Updike
Collection: Sports