Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dick Schaap

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

Dick Schaap

Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

Dick Schaap

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure.

Dick Schaap

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

Dick Gregory

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

Desmond Morris

Aquatic animals suffer from the disadvantage that they cannot scream when in pain, so we find it hard to gauge the degree of their agony. If fish could scream, angling purely for sport would be outlawed without delay.

Derek Theler

I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.

DeLoss Dodds

The APR provides a real-time snapshot of what is happening with our individual student-athletes today. However, it does not address some of the realities that exist in sports played during the spring semester, where student-athletes accept professional opportunities before graduating or before exhausting their eligibility.

David Beckham

I knew it was my time to retire, when I saw Messi running past me.

David Beckham

[Meeting Mandela] was the highlight of my career; to meet such a great man and a strong man and such a passionate man about sport and life will always stay with me.

David Beckham

We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.

David Beckham

Joining Real Madrid is a dream come true.

Dave Winfield

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

Dave Winfield

Everyone has a breaking point, turning point, stress point, the game is permeated with it. The fans don't see it because we make it look so efficient. But internally, for a guy to be successful, you have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

Dave Winfield

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

Dave Winfield

To the people out there, baseball is a simple sport. But it is complex. It is never easy.

Dave Grohl

Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

Dave Grohl

I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

David Wright

Baseball caps never go out of style and are easy to wear. Beyond baseball, beyond sports, I really do think a baseball cap is for everyone.

You just listen to the ball and bat come together. They make an awful noise.

Darrell Waltrip

Our sport is in a changing of the guard right now. It happens every 10 or 15 years, and Brad is the leader of that change at the moment. Sometimes his words and outspokenness offend some folks, but he doesn’t back down from his comments. He doesn’t back down in his driving either, and when competitors see him coming in the rearview mirror, they have to be wondering what he’ll do and what he’s thinking. I think fans love that and gravitate to drivers like Brad.

Darrell Royal

I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.

Darrell Royal

But I do have time to pencil in golf, and we've got four excellent courses.

Darrell Royal

I'm not bored; I'm not a guy who has nothing to do.

Darrell Royal

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

Darrell Royal

There are always going to be people who run faster, jump higher, dive deeper, and come up drier.

Darrell Royal

I try not to play two days in succession. I usually try to space it so I have a day in between.

Darrell Royal

I was still enjoying coaching, but there was a repetitious manner about it.

Darrell Royal

I was in a profession that received a lot of media.

Darrell Royal

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

Darrell Royal

The only thing that would change would be the year, the names. It just got to be a repetitious life.

Darrell Royal

A boy shows how much he wants to play in the spring, when it's tough, and during two a days, when it's hot and tough.

Darrell Royal

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.