Famous Quotes & Sayings

Action Bronson

I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever.

Action Bronson

My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car, all I listen to is sports talk.

Abe Lemons

You always catch the wrong players.

Abe Lemons

You may be big in New York, but in Walters, Oklahoma, you're nobody.

Abe Lemons

If I make a set of rules, then a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He comes back and says, 'It wasn't in the rules.'

Abe Lemons

Hell no. When I die I want to be sick.

Abe Lemons

They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

Abe Lemons

You mean in the state?

Abraham Lincoln

If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.

Alex Rodriguez

I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

Alex Rodriguez

I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.

Alex Rodriguez

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

Alex Rodriguez

I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

Alex Rodriguez

Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

Alberto Tomba

I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

Alberto Juantorena

In Cuba we use our champions to promote the sport.

Alberto Juantorena

I run in practically every single road race in my country, 5k, 10k just to promote the sport.

Alberto Salazar

We may train or peak for a certain race, but running is a lifetime sport.

Albert Einstein

School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave.

Alex Ferguson

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Albert Einstein

In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes.

Albert Einstein

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Albert Einstein

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Abhishek Bachchan

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

Aaron Rodgers

It's a special honor to be one of the leaders of this football team. But I said it once, I'll say it again, no one person wins a game by themselves. Individually, it's top of the mountain, my sport, my profession. It's what you dream about as a kid.

A. S. Byatt

I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

Raymond E. Feist

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

Agatha Christie

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

One thing that I feel like I have been able to do is transition between those two sports very easily.