Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mark Cuban

Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.

Mark Cuban

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

Mark Cuban

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Mark Cuban

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

Mark Cuban

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves? Even when you get to be a chess master, there are other chess masters you want to beat or outperform. And to me business is just a sport that I love to compete in; a continuous intellectual challenge that really motivates me.

Mark Cuban

We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.

Mark Cuban

To me business is a sport. I love knowing that 24x7x365xforever I'm competing with people I don't know. To build my businesses. To come up with new ideas. To come up with better ideas. That motivates me.

Ai Weiwei

No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

Ai Weiwei

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

Ai Weiwei

Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

Bobby Bowden

He who gets the best players usually wins.

Bobby Bowden

Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.

Bobby Bowden

A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.

Blanka Vlasic

I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.

Bill Peterson

You guys line up alphabetically by height.

Bill Rodgers

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

Bill Rodgers

Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You should let it be what it is - a very simple activity. Running has become too complicated for many people and they wind up turning sour on the sport, or losing the focus of their direction.

Bill Rodgers

Anybody can be a runner. We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.

Bill Parcells

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

Bill Parcells

Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.

Bill Parcells

No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.

Bill Parcells

All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

Bill Parcells

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

Bill Parcells

There is winning and there is misery.

Bill Parcells

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Bill Klem

There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.

Bill Kurtis

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

Bernie Ecclestone

It's the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.

Bernard Williams

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Bernhard Langer

We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.

Bernhard Langer

It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.

Bernhard Langer

I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.

Bernhard Langer

You can get some spiked up greens even with no metal spikes, it just depends.