Famous Quotes & Sayings

Casey Stoner

It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco's terrible accident in Sepang but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him,” says World Champ Casey Stoner. We know we all play a risky game and, even if compared to the past the safety of our sport is much better, unfortunately these kind of events still occur. We will go out there this weekend and try to put on a good show for all the fans and especially in memory of Marco.

Casey Stengel

The Mets have shown me more ways to lose than I even knew existed.

Casey Stengel

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Casey Stengel

The trouble with women umpires is that I couldn't argue with one. I'd put my arms around her and give her a little kiss.

Casey Stengel

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Casey Stengel

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

Casey Stengel

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

Casey Stengel

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

Casey Stengel

They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the club going. I'll never make the mistake of being seventy again.

Casey Stengel

Sure I played, did you think I was born at the age of 70 sitting in a dugout trying to manage guys like you?

Casey Stengel

I was not successful as a ball player, as it was a game of skill.

Casey Stengel

I came in here and a fella asked me to have a drink. I said I don't drink. Then another fella said hear you and Joe DiMaggio aren't speaking and I said I'll take that drink.

Casey Stengel

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

Casey Stengel

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.

Casey Stengel

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Casey Stengel

We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!

Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not won.

Casey Stengel

You gotta lose 'em some of the time. When you do, lose 'em right.

Casey Stengel

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

Casey Stengel

Now there's three things you can do in a baseball game: You can win or you can lose or it can rain.

Casey Stengel

No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Carl Honore

Slow parents understand that childrearing should not be a cross between a competitive sport and product-development. It is not a project; it's a journey. Slow parenting is about giving kids lots of love and attention with no conditions attached.

Carl Lewis

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

Carl Lewis

I always separated sports and my personal life.

Carl Lewis

Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.

Carl Lewis

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Carl Lewis

Channel your energy. Focus.

William Shakespeare

For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon.

William Shakespeare

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

William Shakespeare

Misery makes sport to mock itself.

Mark Cuban

There is no sport as competitive as business. It's 24 by 7 by 365 by forever.

Mark Cuban

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

Mark Cuban

The thrill of victory in business blows away the thrill of victory in sports. Business is a sport 24/7/365.