Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tiger Woods

If money titles meant anything, I'd play more tournaments. The only thing that means a lot to me is winning. If I have more wins than anybody else and win more majors than anybody else in the same year, then it's been a good year.

Tiger Woods

If you're not nervous, it means you don't care.

Tiger Woods

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

Tiger Woods

Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

Tiger Woods

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

Thomas Szasz

Sex is a body-contact sport. It is safe to watch but more fun to play.

Reggie Bush

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

Reggie Jackson

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.

Reggie Jackson

The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.

Reggie Jackson

In the building I live in on Park Avenue there are ten people who could buy the Yankees, but none of them could hit the ball out of Yankee Stadium.

Reggie Jackson

Please God, let me hit one. I'll tell everybody you did it.

Reggie Jackson

When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.

Raymond Berry

The most prepared are the most dedicated.

Tom Tryon

The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.

Tom Udall

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

Thomas Keneally

So nonetheless given the importance that was placed on sport in Australia, I wanted to be part of that scene, particularly since I had felt very strongly in my early schooling being marginalised even in the Catholic school.

Thomas Keller

I don't think you could have a 7 with a manual. But I can't see having a BMW sports sedan without a manual.

Thomas Chandler Haliburton

He who sports compliments, unless he takes good aim, may miss his mark, and be wounded by the recoil of his own weapon.

Rebecca Lobo

Femininity and sport can go together.

Rebecca Lobo

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports

Vin Scully

And also it's an ever-gathering process. If I pick up the Sporting News or some sports publication and there's an article on somebody and I think I might see that player, I will tear it out and put it in a file, and I have a looseleaf book so when we're going to play that particular team I take out all these clippings and things I pulled out, I go through them, highlight them, put them in the book.

Vin Scully

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

Vin Scully

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Vince Carter

I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.

Vijay Singh

It doesn't much concern me if Tiger plays in the tournament or no.

Vijay Singh

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

Viggo Mortensen

I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.

Vic Braden

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

Robert Frost

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Robert Benchley

When we think back to our forefathers, with their sedentary lives of forest-chopping, railroad-building, fortune-founding, their fox-hunting and Indian taming, their prancing about in the mazurka and the polka, with their coattails flying and their bustles bouncing, to say nothing of their all-day sessions with the port and straight bourbon,... we must realize that we are a nation, not of neurasthenics, but of sissies and slow-motion sports.

Rita Rudner

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.

Rita Rudner

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howard Cosell.