Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 76

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Image of Bear Bryant
Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.
- Bear Bryant
Collection: Sports
Image of Lennox Lewis
Boxing always was corrupt and always will be corrupt. The three world champion's belts really are absurd. One single association would make this business more reputable. Just as powerful as the promoters, is the media. The cable networks control the cash flow. You can’t ignore the influence the media and the promoters have on the sport. They have a financial objective - high ratings, selling pay-per-views and selling out arenas. Because of the system, the public may not be seeing the best the sport has to offer, but what sells.
- Lennox Lewis
Collection: Sports
Image of Lennox Lewis
Vitali [Klitschko] does want to fight me, but his promoter wants to be bigger than him. This is another situation of politics in the sport.
- Lennox Lewis
Collection: Sports
Image of LaVell Edwards
Professionally - I had the opportunity to play sports throughout my youth, in high school and college. Early on, I decided I wanted to be a coach so I tried to learn everything I could about all positions on the team.
- LaVell Edwards
Collection: Sports
Image of Jonathan Horton
There's very few of us who are able to be successful, which is why so many guys out of college can't continue the sport. It's unfortunate because there's just no financial backing. I've been very blessed with sponsors.
- Jonathan Horton
Collection: Sports
Image of Jonathan Horton
When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.
- Jonathan Horton
Collection: Sports
Image of Robert Anthony
If you don't start, it is certain you won't arrive.
- Robert Anthony
Collection: Sports
Image of David Halberstam
Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
- David Halberstam
Collection: Sports
Image of Blake Griffin
I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.
- Blake Griffin
Collection: Sports
Image of Emily Ratajkowski
I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'
- Emily Ratajkowski
Collection: Sports
Image of Magnus Carlsen
I don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.
- Magnus Carlsen
Collection: Sports
Image of Yvon Chouinard
During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.
- Yvon Chouinard
Collection: Sports
Image of Julia Child
In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.
- Julia Child
Collection: Sports
Image of Herodotus
Bowmen bend their bows when they wish to shoot: unbrace them when the shooting is over. Were they kept always strung they would break and fail the archer in time of need. So it is with men. If they give themselves constantly to serious work, and never indulge awhile in pastime or sport, they lose their senses and become mad.
- Herodotus
Collection: Sports
Image of Nouman Ali Khan
When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a debate is like a sports competition, and no one likes to lose. So even if you make a good point, the other person isn't going to congratulate you. They are thinking about revenge.
- Nouman Ali Khan
Collection: Sports
Image of George Carlin
Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?
- George Carlin
Collection: Sports
Image of Kris Allen
I like watching sports. I like going to sports games and that's kind of my life during football season for sure.
- Kris Allen
Collection: Sports
Image of Kris Allen
I am a huge sports fan. I grew up playing sports and I'm a huge [Arkansas] Razorbacks fan, but any sports personally.
- Kris Allen
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I have found that the players who have played in that game really do have respect for their adversaries.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Barry Zito
I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.
- Barry Zito
Collection: Sports
Image of George Carlin
In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!
- George Carlin
Collection: Sports
Image of Woody Allen
I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know.
- Woody Allen
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
When I was a freshman at Oklahoma in 1946, the game was sold out - and it's been sold out ever since.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
All the white meat is gone. There's nothin' but necks on the platter.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
For me, it is just the total experience - from the time I first started as an assistant coach until I wound up at the University of Texas for 20 years.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I didn't want to stay until I had used up all the enjoyment because that's too long to stay anywhere.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I was in a profession that received a lot of media.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Darrell Royal
I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.
- Darrell Royal
Collection: Sports
Image of Lord Byron
The mellow autumn came, and with it came The promised party, to enjoy its sweets. The corn is cut, the manor full of game; The pointer ranges, and the sportsman beats In russet jacket;--lynx-like is his aim; Full grows his bag, and wonderful his feats. An, nutbrown partridges! An, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Sports
Image of Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.
- Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
Collection: Sports
Image of Noam Chomsky
Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.
- Noam Chomsky
Collection: Sports
Image of Lord Byron
The art of angling, the cruelest, the coldest and the stupidest of pretended sports.
- Lord Byron
Collection: Sports
Image of Margaret Halsey
Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.
- Margaret Halsey
Collection: Sports
Image of Nick Saban
There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.
- Nick Saban
Collection: Sports
Image of Nick Saban
In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.
- Nick Saban
Collection: Sports
Image of Pope Pius XII
Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.
- Pope Pius XII
Collection: Sports
Image of Chris Hedges
War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.
- Chris Hedges
Collection: Sports
Image of Chris Hedges
I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.
- Chris Hedges
Collection: Sports
Image of LaVell Edwards
Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Gary Sheide: The image of Joe Namath. He even had Joe's number. Had just a great feel and touch for the game. A great athlete who could play all the sports. He was more of a streak guy than any of them. He could miss two or three passes and then get hot and hit ten straight. He was the one who got it all started.
- LaVell Edwards
Collection: Sports
Image of Tenzin Palmo
To become effortless takes a lot of effort. It's good to compare it to learning an instrument or learning a sport.
- Tenzin Palmo
Collection: Sports
Image of William Sloane Coffin
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
Collection: Sports