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.

Buddy Gouldsmith

Part of the reason that we scheduled them ... was to excite people in our community about college baseball. I think people are excited about it, and I think we've got a chance to have a great crowd and gain a lot of community support.

Bruce Bochy

Our objective is to get to the playoffs and play good baseball. We'll figure that out once that happens.

Brian Coleman

Our media strategy was twofold: target both the college & minor league baseball fan through strategic baseball partnerships with Rawlings, Easton etc; as well, we invested significantly behind online media to target the baseball gamer and baseball fan.

Frederich Cepeda

Our message is already out there from our international competitions. I think we showed people that baseball is spoken here, baseball and nothing else.

Jamey Wright

People need to recognize that this is one of the greatest players, if not the greatest baseball player ever. We should cherish the last year or two years or 20 days we have him. I enjoy watching him play.

Larry Hartzell

Stadiums started to paint seats red, white and blue. And instead of advertisements on the outfield walls, there were now recruitment signs for the service. You couldn't help but notice all of the patriotism around the country at baseball games.

Brian Sabean

Spring training was a long time ago. He could be starting from ground zero as far as the baseball activities.

Josh Beckett

Spring Training is just a fun time. I really don't know how to explain it. Everyone's got new jokes and everyone is having fun with each other. You get to have your cake and eat it, too. You get to have a life. During the regular season, you don't because it's all day long -- baseball is at the end of the day. But here it's at the beginning of the day and then, with me, I'm going to go out and play golf every day for the next six weeks.

Conor Jackson

Spring Training doesn't go on the back of your baseball card, but this is one of my plans for the year ... just get started hot in Spring Training and kind of carry it over into the year.

Bette Davis

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Carter Burwell

In mainstream romantic comedies, I'm usually tearing my hair out. It's just a devastatingly difficult genre for me.

Elizabeth Bowen

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Diane Lane

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

In Romanticism, the main determinant is the mood, the atmosphere. And in that regard, you could also describe Schubert as a Romantic.

Algernon Charles Swinburne

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...

Daphne Zuniga

I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love.

Daphne Zuniga

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. I've been in therapy since '87. What I learned was, that connection that I was looking for that I thought was really romantic love, my therapist literally said, "Well, when you feel that next, you probably shouldn't go towards that for a partner."

Paul Simon

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.