Famous Quotes & Sayings

Willie Stargell

We devote our entire lives to becoming good ball players. We take batting practice until our hands bleed.

Willie Stargell

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

Willie Stargell

If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.

Willie Stargell

Love soothes wounds, while hatred and violence deepen them.

Willie Stargell

Life is one big transition.

Willie Stargell

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Willie Stargell

I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.

Willie Stargell

Human beings are pampered by the Lord. Their real tests don't come until later in life.

William Petersen

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

Yeardley Smith

Everybody sort of questioned why we get married on New Year's Day, and of course, the avid sports fans wouldn't come, because they had to watch the Rose Bowl or whatever that is on that day.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

True sport is always a duel, a duel with nature, with one's own fear, with one's own fatigue, a duel in which the body and the mind are strengthened.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training. I thought this was ridiculous - it was no one's business what car I drive - so in April, before a match with Almeria, I drove my Ferrari Enzo to work. It caused a scene.