Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joan Jett

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know

Jimmy Cannon

It is the best of all games for me. It frequently escapes from the pattern of sport and assumes the form of a virile ballet. It is purer than any dance because the actions of the players are not governed by music or crowded into a formula by a director. The movement is natural and unrehearsed and controlled only by the unexpected flight of the ball.

Jimmy Cannon

A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Jimmy Cannon

He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

Jimmy Cannon

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

Jimmie Johnson

Experience is invaluable. I can't express enough how much experience in this sport has helped me as a driver.

Jimmie Johnson

Since I was kid, what's drawn me to racing is the feeling inside of me, the passion I have for the sport, the feeling I have while competing and doing what I do in a car, on a bike, whatever it's been

Jim Hill

Scott Medlock is the 'Top Gun' of sports artists. He truly is the best of the best.

Jim Lampley

You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.

Eric Shanteau

I've kind of got an out in cancer. It keeps things in perspective for me.

Eric Liu

Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

Eric Fischl

One of the things I love within music and within sports is how often musicians and athletes thank their audience. In the art world, you would never hear that.

Eric Heiden

Sports and politics don't mix.

Eric Heiden

I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

Eric Heiden

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

Eric Dickerson

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

Eric Dickerson

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

Eric Dickerson

When they have their hands on their knees, that's when they're tired.

Emma Watson

WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST.

Emma Watson

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

Heidi Klum

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

John McEnroe

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

John McEnroe

I'll let the racket do the talking.

John McEnroe

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

John McCain

Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.

John McCain

I watch sports all the time. My wife Cindy says I would watch the thumb-suckers play the bed-wetters. I watch all sports and I enjoy all sports. It's been great fun in my life and a great diversion.

John Howard

Remarks such as 'great Australian', 'larger than life' are sometimes used where they are not appropriate. But in the case of Kerry Packer both of those descriptions are entirely appropriate. He was a great Australian, he was a larger than life character and in so many ways he left his mark on the Australian community over a very long career in business, particularly in the media and also that other great passion of his, Australian sport

John Howard

There is a very special place in the Australian psyche for sport. It is one of the pillars of the Australian way of life. You don't really understand what makes the Australian nation tick unless you understand the great affection Australians have for sport.

John Howard

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.

John Hurt

I was keen on sports-that's how my nose got this way. It's not actually broken; the nose was just pushed up a little bit and moved over. It's an aquiline nose, quite Irish.

John Hodgman

Americans don't need a metaphor for war. We have war. If anything, we use war as a metaphor for sports.

John Hodgman

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

John Hodgman

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.