Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce McCall

Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.

Bruce Jenner

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

Bruce Jenner

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

Bruce Jenner

Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.

Bruce Jenner

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

Bruce Jenner

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

Bruce Jenner

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

Bruce Jenner

I was afraid the teacher was going to make me read in front of class and I was going to look bad. [But] if I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily. And I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

Brock Yates

Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.

Brock Yates

I have spent--or wasted--my life around motor racing: driving, promoting, and writing about what Ernest Hemingway once linked with mountain climbing and bull fighting as the only true sports. The rest, he sniffed, are merely games.

Brian Williams

You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Edward Ruscha

The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.

Dwight Morrow

Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.

Dwight Gooden

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

Dwyane Wade

There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.

Dwyane Wade

When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.

I like playing many other sports, such as basketball.

George Vecsey

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm not in this sport to take punishment.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.

Eddie Rickenbacker

Sports of every sort had always appealed to me.

Anna Chlumsky

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

Andy Lau

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

Andy Roddick

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

Andy Roddick

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

Andy Roddick

When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.

Albert Schweitzer

The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?

Alastair Campbell

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.

Alber Elbaz

I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

Daniel J. Boorstin

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

Daniel Kahneman

Political columnists and sports pundits are rewarded for being overconfident.

Clint Dempsey

Little did I know that the sport I loved and the skills I learned would later play a role in my relationship with God.

Clint Bowyer

Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.