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.

C. S. Lewis

The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story.

C. S. Lewis

History is a story written by the finger of God.

Cecelia Ahern

They say a story loses something with each telling.

Cecelia Ahern

Every single ordinary person has an extraordinary story.

Bill Bryson

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Trinny Woodall

I don't have a problem with the stories saying I'm skinny at all.

Jocelyn Moorhouse

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Paul Slavin

There are stories that you don't have to be first on.

Candace Bushnell

I was a freelancer all through my twenties. I did about one story a month and I wanted to write fiction, so the stories that I would do were precursors to 'Sex and the City.'