Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Foreman

The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.

George Foreman

The referee is going to be the most important person in the ring tonight besides the fighters.

George Foreman

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

George Foreman

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.

Jon Gruden

You never stay the same. You either get better or you get worse.

Jon Bernthal

I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.

Jon Bernthal

I played sports in high school and in college.

Jon Bon Jovi

I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.

Johnny Oates

We set the table, but no one ate.

Johnny Unitas

I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

Johnny Miller

The mental aspect of golf is what makes golf such a great sport.

Johnny Miller

Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

Johnny Weir

I got into figure skating for the art of it, as well as the sport, and how much I love it. And, you know, I do everything that I want. I march to my own drummer. Sometimes people have an issue with that, and I can't control it.

Johnny Bench

I was thinking about making a comeback, until I pulled a muscle vacuuming.

Johnny Damon

A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

Johnny Damon

I hope others take as much pride in the sport as I do.

Lynn Samuels

Sports is all about money.

Lynn Redgrave

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific.

Jim Valvano

Enjoy your life, the precious moments you have.

Jim Valvano

Are you saying that the assistant had the answers all along, he just wasn't telling anyone?

Jim Valvano

Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first step to succeeding.

John Cleese

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.

I was playing sports all the time, growing up. And then, somewhere around 10th or 11th grade, I kind of lost interest in that and just started reading a lot. I didn't know what to read. I didn't have much direction outside of school.

M. Russell Ballard

Fourth, come home from work and take an active role with your family. Don't put work, friends, or sports ahead of listening to, playing with, and teaching your children.

John Cena

People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.

John Cena

My dad is the reason I actually started watching wrestling. My dad was never big into sports; we were all big into sports as kids, and he'd go to our Little League games or whatever and not really know what was going on, because he didn't know about sports, but he knew about wrestling.

John Cena

It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.

John Arbuthnot

It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

John Arlott

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

Orson Scott Card

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Robert Kiyosaki

A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.

Robert Kiyosaki

Business and investing are team sports.