Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Billy Corgan

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Bill Taylor

Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Tilden

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Bill Simmons

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Bill Simmons

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Shankly

I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Cowher

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

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.

Alan Dershowitz

Our First Amendment expresses a far different calculus for regulating speech than for regulating nonexpressive conduct and that is as it should be. The right to swing your fist should end at the tip of my nose, but your right to express your ideas should not necessarily end at the lobes of my ears.

Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair

Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.

Augusten Burroughs

His laugh is made if porch swings and lemonade

Elbert Hubbard

The newspapers print what the people want, and thus does the savage still swing his club and flourish his spear.

Albert Einstein

Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Asking the proper questions is the central action of transformation. Questions are the key that causes the secret doors of the psyche to swing open.

Davey Havok

I'm Davey. I sing, make faces and swing from trees.

David Ortiz

I just swing hard in case I hit it -- that's it.

David Ortiz

I swing hard all the time. That's what I've done my whole life-hit.

Bobby Pierce

Our offense has really come around. We're swinging the bats well and getting good at-bats. When we get runs on, we're driving them in.

Johnny Damon

Some guys haven't gotten into the mode of swinging the bats real well.

Jeff Thorne

Our pitchers struggled to find the strike zone, but our bats came alive. This was easily our best hitting game of the year.

Craig Biggio

Overall everyone swung the bats and did everything right,

Tommy Wynn

Our bats will come around, it's just a matter of time before they get it going. We've got a great offense, we're not too worried about it.

Lindsey Cameron

Our bats weren't alive, and our hitters need to be more aggressive. Every loss is always a letdown, but it shows what you need to improve on. It's tough because it is SEC play, but we just move forward and need to get better.

Lori Snell

Our bats stayed on fire. I was proud of the way we played in this game.

Dino Ebel

Our bats just wouldn't let our gloves beat us tonight.

Jordan Pacheco

Our bats have been struggling, so it would be huge for our team to play well. It would boost our confidence.