Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Van Slyke

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

Andy Rooney

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

Andy Warhol

Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.

Geoff Stults

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

Carl Jung

Maybe." I shrug. "But what I meant was, can't you use the makeup to cover it?" Miles rolls his eyes and scowls. "Oh, so I can sport a huge flesh-colored beacon instead? Would you look at this thing? There's no disguising it. It's got it's own DNA! It's casting shadows!

Anton LaVey

If real Satanism were allowed the kind of television time that Christianity has now, the kind of drawing out and patience that interviewers give sports figures, or the kind of coverage that a baseball game gets, Christianity would be completely eliminated in a few short months. If people were allowed to see the complete, unbiased truth, even for 60 minutes, it would be too dangerous. There would be no comparison.

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.

Jay Ryan

I always seem to get parts where I play the sports professional - and that's not me at all!

Dick Enberg

He was the first superstar of sports television.

For us, sports is a very challenging but successful business.

Julia Mancuso

I work out a lot, but I like to do action sports. A lot of surfing, mountain-biking.

Ashley Wagner

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

Carolyn Murphy

I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated', because I've always been skinny.

Pierre de Coubertin

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

Pierre de Coubertin

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Pierre de Coubertin

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

Pierre de Coubertin

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

Pierre de Coubertin

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Pierre de Coubertin

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Stephen Jay Gould

The silliest and most tendentious of baseball writing tries to wrest profundity from the spectacle of grown men hitting a ball with a stick by suggesting linkages between the sport and deep issues of morality, parenthood, history, lost innocence, gentleness, and so on, seemingly ad infinitum . (The effort reeks of silliness because baseball is profound all by itself and needs no excuses; people who don't know this are not fans and are therefore unreachable anyway.

Camille Paglia

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Billy Graham

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.

Billy Graham

Christianity is not a spectator sport. It's something in which we become totally involved.

Michael Jordan

I wasn't really a work-conscious type of person. I was a player. I loved to play sports.

Louis C. K.

I watch a lot of sports. But when I'm not working, I'm with my daughters every chance I get.

Louis C. K.

Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.

George Will

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

William Shakespeare

There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown.

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens.

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.