Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis Thomas

I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.

Lesley Visser

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

Lesley Visser

The three most important things for a sportscaster are knowledge of the game, a passion for sports and the profession, and the stamina to struggle.

Lesley Visser

My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.

Lawrence Dallaglio

The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.

Neil Simon

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

Neil Simon

Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

Neil Peart

It's interesting. I've known quite a few good athletes that can't begin to play a beat on the drum set. Most team sport is about the smooth fluidity of hand-eye coordination and physical grace, where drumming is much more about splitting all those things up.

Neil Peart

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later.

Neil Peart

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

Neil Peart

It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.

Marc Bulger

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

Thomas a Kempis

O Lord, self-renunciation is not the work of one day, nor children's sport; yea, rather in this word is included all perfection.

Sadaharu Oh

The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.

Sachin Tendulkar

My point of view is that when I am playing cricket I cannot think that this game is less or more important.

Sachin Tendulkar

Let us celebrate the spirit of sport through the National Games

Sachin Tendulkar

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Sachin Tendulkar

I have never believed in comparisons, whether they are about different eras, players or coaches.

Sachin Tendulkar

It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.

Sachin Tendulkar

Before coming here I had a minor back problem and I thought whenever I play Pakistan I get a back problem.

Sachin Tendulkar

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

Sachin Tendulkar

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.

Sachin Tendulkar

When I was 15, I started playing first class cricket and always dreamt of being a Test cricketer, wanted to do something for the country, married in 1995, have 2 kids it's been great.

Sachin Tendulkar

Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler.

Sachin Tendulkar

Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit if a history regarding Pakistan.

Sachin Tendulkar

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Sachin Tendulkar

Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.

Sachin Tendulkar

I have never tried to compare myself to anyone else.

Sachin Tendulkar

I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.

Sachin Tendulkar

I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.

Ryan Cabrera

Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.

Ruud van Nistelrooy

In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.