Top sports Quotes Collection - Page 87

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Image of Lisa Leslie
I am honored to join the CBS Sports family to inspire, entertain and deliver insight on a platform with amazing women doing what we do best - talk sports. I am excited to have the opportunity to be a part of such a ground-breaking show. Yet we cannot do it alone. We hope to have the support of men and women'
- Lisa Leslie
Collection: Sports
Image of Dalai Lama
I do not see any reason why animals should be slaughtered to serve as human diet when there are so many substitutes. After all, man can live without meat. It is only some carnivorous animals that have to subsist on flesh. Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventures, and for hides and furs is a phenomenon which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging in such acts of brutality . . . Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to a man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not to die, so do other creatures.
- Dalai Lama
Collection: Sports
Image of Sugar Ray Leonard
I found boxing when I was 14 years old. I went down to the gym because my brother, who used to beat me up all the time, introduced me to boxing. I found boxing to be a sport that I felt safe in because I controlled what was in those four squares.
- Sugar Ray Leonard
Collection: Sports
Image of Sugar Ray Leonard
Ali's belief in himself was something I picked up on, and it's become my own philosophy
- Sugar Ray Leonard
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Monica Lewinsky
Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.
- Monica Lewinsky
Collection: Sports
Image of Chuck Klosterman
If I had to make a choice between only writing about sports or only writing about music, I would probably write about music. I'm not sure why that is. There seems to be more to write about with music, just because it's more of a splintered thing. There's more subgenres. With sports, it's more objective in a way.
- Chuck Klosterman
Collection: Sports
Image of Bobby Knight
To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.
- Bobby Knight
Collection: Sports
Image of Bobby Knight
I think the ability to motivate might be interpreted as the ability to lead, or to show people their goals or, perhaps more important, what their potential is - as a person as well as a player. You've got to show players that being part of a team will carry over to the experience of becoming part of society.
- Bobby Knight
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Jeffrey Kluger
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
Collection: Sports
Image of Jeffrey Kluger
The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.
- Jeffrey Kluger
Collection: Sports
Image of Vince Lombardi
If you give me anything less than your best, you're not only cheating yourself. your coaches, your teamates, everybody in Green Bay, and everything pro football stands for. Your also cheating the Maker who gave you the talent.
- Vince Lombardi
Collection: Sports
Image of Sugar Ray Leonard
I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself
- Sugar Ray Leonard
Collection: Sports
Image of Lawrence Lessig
Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
- Lawrence Lessig
Collection: Sports
Image of Terry Bozzio
When I was in eighth grade said sit in at a graduation party and I played 'Boys' by The Beatles and fifty people were standing around with their mouths open. And you kind of get the hint, well maybe I should do this because I'm not very good at sports, I'm not that popular, I'm not very smart, and I'm not very good looking, but when I played the drums, everybody liked it.
- Terry Bozzio
Collection: Sports
Image of Jonathan Lethem
I've discovered that like every writer, I'm helpless MYSELF - and that means I find myself unconsciously or semi-consciously repeating motifs and themes and even using certain words or images recurrently in my work, no matter how much I think I'm starting fresh. But I've always admired artists who made a specific sport of trying to visit different kinds of genres or mediums or modes - not just 'western' or 'detective', but comedy/tragedy, epic and miniature, traditional/experimental.
- Jonathan Lethem
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Billie Jean King
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.
- Billie Jean King
Collection: Sports
Image of Drew Magary
My job happens to be sports-related, so it's like my duty to watch football. It's my job. But that's not a change for me. When you're 18, it's life and death, because you don't have a kid, and it's a much bigger deal when you're 18. Having a kid - when the Vikings lost the 2009 NFC title game, it sucked, and I'm not happy about it, but my kid is still alive. You have to have that horrible forced perspective that you don't want.
- Drew Magary
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack Kirby
I want to be better than five guys. I was that way when I used to box, I was that way in any sport. I want to compete with five other guys. If I beat five other guys, I'd like to see if I can beat six.
- Jack Kirby
Collection: Sports
Image of Heath Ledger
The Oscars are a really strange concept to me, that films and acting can be competing against each other. We're not running the same race. It's like we're all doing different sports in fact.
- Heath Ledger
Collection: Sports
Image of Chuck Klosterman
I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.
- Chuck Klosterman
Collection: Sports
Image of Ashton Kutcher
I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.
- Ashton Kutcher
Collection: Sports
Image of Chuck Klosterman
If you move furniture all day, if you're a construction worker, if you have a job that's real physical, this idea that there is a sport that involves the kind of conventional, traditional view of toughness, you see that still as a positive thing.
- Chuck Klosterman
Collection: Sports
Image of Fran Lebowitz
Smoking is, if not my life, then at least my hobby. I love to smoke. Smoking is fun. Smoking is cool. Smoking is, as far as I am concerned, the entire point of being an adult. It makes growing up genuinely worthwhile. I am quite well aware of the hazards of smoking. Smoking is not a healthful pastime, it is true. Smoking is indeed no bracing dip in the ocean, no strenuous series of calisthenics, no two laps around the reservoir. On the other hand, smoking has to its advantage the fact that is a quiet pursuit. Smoking is, in effect a dignified sport.
- Fran Lebowitz
Collection: Sports
Image of Steve Ballmer
The company I invested in is probably a leader in that area. They're a company called Second Spectrum, which happens to be based in LA but was started by two USC computer-science professors. It's filled with guys who love sports, who played sports, but really look like programmers.
- Steve Ballmer
Collection: Sports
Image of Steve Ballmer
In general, I'm pretty busy with the other things I charted ... I bought a piece of a sports-tech company. We do a lot of work with at the Clippers. I think that'll be great. We're really looking at the possibility of extending and building a real over-the-top distribution channel with value-added services for the Clippers, that could lead to other partnerships and investments. But most of the stuff I'm looking at isn't because I say, "Hey, I want to invest." It sort of comes around from the work we're doing with the Clippers.
- Steve Ballmer
Collection: Sports
Image of David Letterman
Last month Mitt Romney raised $76 million. He found it in an old sport-coat pocket.
- David Letterman
Collection: Sports
Image of C. S. Lewis
A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.
- C. S. Lewis
Collection: Sports
Image of Steig Larsson
To Sally, who showed me the benefits of the sport of golf.
- Steig Larsson
Collection: Sports
Image of Chuck Klosterman
Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.
- Chuck Klosterman
Collection: Sports
Image of Jay Leno
Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!
- Jay Leno
Collection: Sports
Image of Ray Lewis
I don't train for sports. I've never trained for sports. I train for life, and sport is just a part of that. So when I start training, that's lifestyle training and that's why I go through so many things, whether it's yoga, kickboxing, wrestling or swimming.
- Ray Lewis
Collection: Sports
Image of Antonio Banderas
I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.
- Antonio Banderas
Collection: Sports
Image of Stephen Leacock
A barber is by nature and inclination a sport. He can tell you at what exact hour the ball game is to begin, can foretell its issue without losing a stroke of the razor, and can explain the points of inferiority of all the players, as compared with the better men that he has personally seen elsewhere, with the nicety of a professional.
- Stephen Leacock
Collection: Sports
Image of Steve Ballmer
Every NBA arena has six cameras in the ceiling. The question is what does the software do with video feeds? How to surface that in a set of analytics? There are some "playbooks," but in most sports these days what you really want to share out with coaches and players is a set of video that lets you visualize what's going on and what's the best way to do things.
- Steve Ballmer
Collection: Sports
Image of Lewis H. Lapham
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
- Lewis H. Lapham
Collection: Sports
Image of Rush Limbaugh
Football leads to a crime rate among people that play in the NFL that is less than the gen pop, the general population. The numbers have been run. It's just that people who play football are stars and, as such, what they do occurs with greater media scrutiny. So when one of them happens to engage in some sort of questionable behavior, it happens to (in a lot of it people's minds) speak for the whole sport and everybody that plays it.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Sports
Image of Rush Limbaugh
That's the thing about golf. In a team sport, when a team's on a roll, you have a little bit more data and comfort in predicting whether the roll's gonna continue, whether the team is playing well and who the opponent is. But the golf course is the opponent. It changes every round in terms of wind and weather and so forth. And your game is never the same two days in a row. It's almost impossible to handicap and predict.
- Rush Limbaugh
Collection: Sports
Image of Karl Lagerfeld
Of course there are some evening dresses that you cannot wear in daylight because it would be ridiculous, but there is a kind of dressy touch for daywear, too, ... And everything, it's easy. There's no barrier between dressy, day and sports. It's feminine 24 hours a day.
- Karl Lagerfeld
Collection: Sports
Image of Jack LaLanne
If it tastes good, spit it out. All those cakes and pies and candy and ice cream -- all that terrible fast food stuff! I just bought a new corvette sports car ... would I put oil in the gas tank? Would I?
- Jack LaLanne
Collection: Sports
Image of John Leguizamo
Definitely if you're an athlete, you're gonna be having all the baseball fame you can have. That's the great thing about baseball and sports. You can measure ability.
- John Leguizamo
Collection: Sports
Image of Jay Leno
The White House is defending President Obama's sports activities over the past week, saying that everyone needs leisure time. Thanks to these economic policies, 9.5 percent of Americans have all the leisure time they need.
- Jay Leno
Collection: Sports
Image of Paul Krugman
For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.
- Paul Krugman
Collection: Sports
Image of Timothy Leary
Living, dying, and thinking... they're all team sports.
- Timothy Leary
Collection: Sports