Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Milla

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad.

Roger Tory Peterson

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera....

Roger Staubach

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Roger Staubach

There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.

Roger Staubach

In the commercial real estate business, brokers spearhead major accounts. But they wouldn't have customers without the people who oversee construction.

Roger Staubach

At our company, our Design and Construction Consulting Service Team not only helps eliminate the risks inherent in the construction process, they typically save our clients 5% - 10% on overall construction costs. They also help make sure projects come in on time.

Roger Staubach

It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.

Roger Clemens

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

Roger Clemens

It was an exciting time for me personally because the number of times I've been to the playoffs, that was the opportunity to obtain the first ring. That was special, that's for sure.

Roger Clemens

When I look back at the tapes, your first everything, your first All-Star Game, your first playoff experience, it just seems like it went by really fast.

Roger Clemens

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series.

Roger Clemens

Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball

Roger Clemens

My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.

Sam Snead

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

Sam Snead

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Russ Rose

That concerns me. You're either getting better or you're getting worse. I don't think you stay the same in sports. If we want to achieve something special in the game, then these players have to recognize that they're responsible every day for getting better.

Rupert Murdoch

Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.

Rush Limbaugh

It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you.

Tiesto

The opportunity to perform my music for billions of people around the globe will be the greatest highlight of my life, I am honoured to be part of the biggest sports event in the world.

Thomas Menino

The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

W. P. Kinsella

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

W. P. Kinsella

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

William Cowper

Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

William Cowper

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

William Cowper

Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain.

Wayne Gretzky

I think sports for kids is the greatest thing in the world because it teaches you how to share, about winning and losing and pressure. But I don't think you should force your kid to become a professional athlete.

Wayne Gretzky

One hundred percent of shots not taken don't go in.

Wayne Gretzky

People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating where it will be directed, factoring in all the interruptions. Basically, my whole game is angles.

Wayne Gretzky

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

Wayne Gretzky

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Wayne Gretzky

Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.