Famous Quotes & Sayings

Terry Gross

And the rules were so clear, you could not deviate from that all. And I think it especially damaged my sisters because there was nothing they could do to get my father's attention, to win his approval. They could not play sports. They could not do these other things. They could not be tough. They could not be macho. And so I think they suffered just from sheer neglect if nothing else.

Terry Bradshaw

What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.

Terrell Davis

There is no such thing as sportsmanship.

Teddy Sears

My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

Teddy Sheringham

Even championship-winning teams don't play well all the time.

Teddy Atlas

Throughout the history of the sport, the heavyweight champion has been... a reason to talk about boxing at the water cooler.

Ted Williams

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

Ted Williams

If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.

Ted Williams

There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.

Ted Williams

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.

Ted Williams

You've got to be ready for the fastball.

Ted Williams

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Ted Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Temple Grandin

I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.

Ted McGinley

I would consider it the greatest experience of my life, it's the experience that made me a man, that taught me so many life lessons that you get from sport, ones that I've been able to pass down. (It was) invaluable, beyond words, got me through school, high school, and college, it was the greatest gift I gave myself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Randeep Hooda

There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

Randeep Hooda

Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

Shania Twain

Ain't nothing better, we beat the odds together.

Shania Twain

I enjoy sports in person.

Sebastian Vettel

The bottom line is what we do might not be the safest so there is always some risk but we are ready to take that into account because we love racing and we love motor sports and it is dangerous.

Sebastian Vettel

I have one quote I very often read to myself, from a very good friend: 'Forget the people around you now; remember the little boy who was racing in go-karts, what you were dreaming of and what he wanted to achieve one day and what was his goal. Race for him.'. I fell in love with the sport, I love racing. The amount of satisfaction I get just going around in a Formula 1 car makes me smile. So if it is a bad day then you tend to come out and say it's horrible and you don't enjoy. But if you had to pick between that and doing nothing, you would always pick that.

Shirley Chisholm

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality. There are more television addicts, more baseball and football addicts, more movie addicts, and certainly more alcohol addicts in this country than there are narcotics addicts.

Sharni Vinson

Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.

Shaquille O'Neal

I average 25 with three guys on me and they are just looking at stats I guess.

Shaquille O'Neal

I made a 1,600 minus 800 minus 200 on the SAT, so I'm very intelligent when I speak.

Shaquille O'Neal

I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.

Shannon Sharpe

Ray Lewis is the type of guy, if he were in a fight with a bear I wouldn't help him, I'd pour honey on him because he likes to fight. That's the type of guy Ray Lewis is.

Shannon Miller

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

Shannon Miller

If you can't handle all the injuries and scars, choose a less demanding sport.

Shannon Miller

Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then you have the bars after it and you have to be more sedate for that.

Seve Ballesteros

A detailed analysis of his four-putt at the 1986 Masters: I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I miss the putt. I make.

Lewis Mumford

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.