Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Guidry

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

Ron Fairly

If I had to name the number one asset you could have for any sport I'd say speed. In baseball, all a guy with speed has to do is make contact.

Ron Dennis

I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.

Ron Howard

Sports always works for us more allegorically or metaphorically and that's what's fantastic about why we love them. You demonstrate the limits to which a human being can go and they keep pushing the boundaries of that.

Stephanie Rice

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Stephanie Mills

Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

Stefan Edberg

The serve really is the key to my game.

Stefan Edberg

I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.

Stefan Edberg

I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.

Stefan Edberg

I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.

Stedman Graham

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Stedman Graham

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

Stefan Molyneux

If you can't share what's important to you with the people around you, then you have no relationships. It's all just proximity, and turkey, and sports, and weather, and bullshit.

Stan Kroenke

Economics is about creating win-win situations. But in sports, someone loses.

Stan Lee

Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

A career in entertainment has a lifespan, like one in sport.

Taylor Lautner

I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.

Stanley Ho

I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.

Stephen Wallem

I was never into sports, and my passion was the arts as long as I could remember.

Stephenie Meyer

In summary, she did jump off a cliff, but she wasn't trying to kill herself. Bella's all about the extreme sports these days." I flushed and turned my eyes straight ahead, looking after the dark shadow that I could no longer see. I could imagine what he was hearing in Alice's thoughts now. Near-drowings, stalking vampires, werewolf friends . . . "Hm," Edward said curtly, and the casual tone of his voice was gone.

Stephen Colbert

So, if I'm no cheerleader of sports, why write a chapter about it? Sports do have some positive impact on society. They solve problems, such as how to get inner-city kids to spend $175 on shoes. They serve as a backdrop for some of our most memorable commercials. And they remain the one and only relevant application of math. Not only that, but we have sports to thank for most of the last century's advances in manliness. The system starts in school, where gym class separates the men from the boys. Then those men are taught to be winners, or at least, losers that hate themselves.

Steffi Graf

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

Sophie Tucker

Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself.

Sparky Anderson

I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.

Sparky Anderson

I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

Sparky Anderson

Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

Sparky Anderson

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

Sparky Anderson

I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Sparky Anderson

I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

Sparky Anderson

We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

Sparky Anderson

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

Sparky Anderson

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Sparky Anderson

If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.