Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bob Feller

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Bob Feller

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Callan McAuliffe

I never thought acting would be my life. I only started doing it because I needed something to occupy my weekends after I dislocated my knee and couldn't play sport.

Callie Khouri

I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

Calvin Coolidge

It would be difficult to conceive a finer example of true sport.

Bo Jackson

I was a pitcher, shortstop and outfielder, and the Yankees tried to sign me out of high school as a first-round draft pick in 1981. I turned them down to go to college.

Bo Jackson

I was the type of guy that used to get up in the morning and go out and just out run everybody on the field without stretching or warming up or anything.

Bo Jackson

It occurred to me in my junior year of high school. I got my first letter from a big college. I still have that letter to this day - a letter from Indiana.

Bo Jackson

If I miss anything about the sport, it's the camaraderie of old teammates.

Bo Jackson

Back when I was training, probably the only nutritious thing on the market was Gatorade-that's all that we knew. But now in this day and age, people are more prone to go out to try new things to enhance their performance on the field-to enhance their physical appearance. I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it. You have a lot of people on the run and really don't have time to sit down and eat a balanced meal.

Bo Jackson

My favorite driver is always either the bad guy or the underdog.

Bo Jackson

I am a firm believer in if you can't get it the old fashioned way, you don't need it.

Bo Jackson

I have no problem with my hips - I can still do the things that I used to do. I can run, I'm just not the fastest person on the field anymore.

Bo Jackson

I guarantee you that's what Jeff Gordon does. He uses everything the fans throw at him to stoke his fire and it drives him to be better at what he does.

Bo Jackson

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

Billy Sunday

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

Billy Sunday

I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

Billy Sunday

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Billy Sunday

Unless you have made a complete surrender and are doing his will it will avail you nothing if you've reformed a thousand times and have your name on fifty church records.

Billy Sunday

Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.

Billy Sunday

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

Billy Sunday

I am the sworn, eternal and uncompromising enemy of the liquor traffic.

Billy Sunday

I believe there is no doctrine more dangerous to the Church today than to convey the impression that a revival is something peculiar in itself and cannot be judged by the same rules of causes and effect as other things.

Billy Sunday

At Kansas City, Kansas, before the saloons were closed, they were getting ready to build an addition to the jail. Now the doors swing idly on the hinges and there is nobody to lock in the jails.

Billy Sunday

There are individuals who have never done anything for Jesus Christ, and I have no doubt there are preachers as well, who have never done anything for the God Almighty.

Billy Sunday

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Billy Sunday

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

Billy Sunday

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Billy Sunday

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

Billy Sunday

Conversion is a complete surrender to Jesus. It's a willingness to do what he wants you to do.

Billy Sunday

Hell is the highest reward that the devil can offer you for being a servant of his.

Reid Scott

I ski, I surf, I scuba dive... any sport that starts with an 's.'