Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dan Marino

We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

Dan Marino

I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.

Dan Marino

Sometimes, I wish we were all amateurs again. I'd play for nothing. Ab-so-lute-ly free. But that's not the system.

Dan Marino

I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.

Dan Millman

Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes."

Dan Millman

Masters of one art have mastered all because they have mastered themselves. With dominion over both mind and muscle, they demonstrate power, serenity, and spirit. They not only have talent for their sport, they have an expanded capacity for life. The experts shine in the competitive arena; the masters shine everywhere.

Dan Millman

Sports and sex and movies are not inherently bad - But for you they're addictions, not enjoyments. You use them to distract you from what you know you should do. Break free!

Colson Whitehead

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). Perhaps if there were a sport centered around lying on your couch in a neurotic stupor all day, I'd take an interest.

Dawn Fraser

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Dawn Fraser

If you're good at it, you can win.

Dawn Fraser

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

Dawn Fraser

I've worked hard all my life.

Dawn Fraser

I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose those were the last words he ever spoke to me.

Dawn Fraser

I've always believed that the desire must come from within, not as a result of being driven by coaches or parents.

Dawn Fraser

Make yourself an example, achieve it, but don't hurt anyone on the way up. I don't think I did that.

Dawn Fraser

We only have two things that we share in this life; we are born and we die. And what we do in between those times, we've got to be happy. I don't let the outside world deter me.

David Stern

I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.

David Perkins

The metaphor ( coaching) with sports is meant quite seriously... the coach stands back , observes the performance, and provides guidance. The coach applauds strengths, identifies weaknesses, points up principles, offers guiding and often inspiring imagery, and decides what kind of practice to emphasize.

David Lodge

I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex

David Halberstam

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

David Halberstam

Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

David Halberstam

In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice for fear of letting his teammates down. Every time an athlete thought of getting back into bed in the morning he knew he would have to face the anger of his closest friends. But the sculler had to find motivation entirely within himself. No one else cared.

David Halberstam

Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football during a head-on collision, pain in other sports on the occasion of a serious injury. That was more the threat of pain; in rowing there was the absolute guarantee of it every time.

Curtis Joseph

No matter how many years you play, it's always something new and exciting. It's sports, you never know what may happen.

Curtis Joseph

Growing up, sports was my outlet, my way to portray a personality. I was very shy around people but, through sports, something I was good at, I was able to make friends.

Curt Gowdy

Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.

Curt Flood

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.

Curt Schilling

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

Curt Schilling

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

Curt Schilling

I don't hide my feelings, but when it comes to illness, I guess I don't panic. My father was the same way. I'm the provider for the family and the caretaker. If I panic, who is anybody going to run to?

Curt Schilling

I care what people think, but that doesn't change what I say. I am who I am.

Curt Schilling

Baseball is not a sport you can achieve individually.

Curtis Jackson

The opportunity and the concept of merging music culture with actual boxing is exciting. It's bringing a younger demographic to the sport.