Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Elway

I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything you have to be at both ends of the spectrum.

John F. Kerry

You can't play sports without losing sometimes and, in losing, you learn something about grace and how to act under pressure.

John Donne

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

John Oliver

There is no greater anesthetic than sport.

John Money

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

John McGraw

You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?

John McGraw

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

John Michael Higgins

I'm not a huge fan of improv theater or improv sports or whatever, because it still just looks like a tool. It looks like a technique to me.

Johan Cruijff

Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium.

Johan Cruijff

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

Joe Kapp

They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

Joe Kapp

Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

Joe Kapp

Success is living up to your potential. That's all. Wake up with a smile and go after life... Live it, enjoy it, taste it, smell it, feel it.

Joan Rivers

Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all; grief is a spectator sport for them.

Jimmy Wales

I have zero interest in sports of any kind - professional, college or international.

Jimmy Fallon

Hillary Clinton has a $350 billion plan that she says will make college more affordable. Which has to be better than my parents' plan to make college affordable: 'Be good at sports.'

George Allen

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

George Allen

Coaches try to beat each other from the ears up.

George A. Sheehan

Sport is an essential element of education.

George A. Sheehan

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

George A. Sheehan

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

George A. Sheehan

The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.

Garry Kasparov

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

Garry Kasparov

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Garry Kasparov

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

Garry Kasparov

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

Garry Kasparov

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

Garrison Keillor

That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.

Garrison Keillor

What keeps faith cheerful is the extreme persistence of gentleness and humor. Gentleness is everywhere in daily life, a sign that faith rules through ordinary things: through cooking and small talk, through storytelling, making love, fishing, tending animals and sweet corn and flowers, through sports, music, and books, raising kids-all the places where the gravy soaks in and grace shines through. Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

Gabriela Sabatini

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

Gabriela Sabatini

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

Gabriela Sabatini

For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.

Gabrielle Reece

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.