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.

Joe Glenn

He was just a toothache, ... He's got one speed, pedal to the medal. He's 90 mph all the time.

Pat Fuelner

If there wouldn't have been a 40 mph wind at your back, that doesn't go in.

Darrell Waltrip

There's no bigger surprise than to be tooling along at 200 MPH and suddenly get hit from the rear

Ross Rasmussen

We were going 5 mph up a mountain.

Arlen Kantarian

With the speed and power of Monday's game, and with 150 mph serves and 100 mph backhands, we need an officiating aid.

Alex Fowler

This is a big deal. It can get 55 to 60 mph easily.

Antonio Sabato, Jr.

I've been driving race cars professionally for a while: 200 mph types of things.

Felix Kramer

Many hybrid owners realize how sharply fuel efficiency goes down over 55 mph because they get instant mileage feedback.

Evel Knievel

When I hit that pavement at 70 or 80 mph those suits just ripped.

Ayrton Senna

Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than others.

Colin Chapman

Money is how we keep the score in motor racing nowadays.

Carlos Ghosn

As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing.

Enzo Ferrari

What's behind you doesn't matter.

Murray Walker

Motor racing can never be totally safe and it never should be in my opinion.

Hunter S. Thompson

Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.

Mario Andretti

Motor racing is like one big family, ultimately, and when you come back to it, that's really what it feels like.

Emerson Fittipaldi

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

Juan Manuel Fangio

I told my nephew that if he wanted to get on in motor racing, the first thing he should do was master English. Thank goodness he now speaks it.