Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabih Alameddine

Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.

Judah Friedlander

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.

Benjamin Disraeli

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

Elbert Hubbard

Don't make excuses, make good.

Elbert Hubbard

Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Elbert Hubbard

Some men succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.

Marc Blucas

You see so many different personalities and mind-sets in the world of sports, just like you do with actors.

Jason Chaffetz

You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.

They are sports in their own right. They just aren't traditional sports.

Hal Sutton

I am excited about this. We've got half of our goal. I'd love to see us get a little bit more than half our goal and not be so deeply into this thing going into Sunday, but I feel good about everything.

Hal Sutton

I don't feel badly about that. There's a lot of energy on the golf course. The guys are playing great. I like the pairings in the afternoon. I'm going to take what we've got.

Hal Sutton

That's the $64,000 question. And I would love to tell you there was an answer.

Hal Sutton

I hope we've got a lot of fairways and greens. We'll go from there.

Hal Borland

If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

Gretchen Bleiler

I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.

Greta Gerwig

There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win.

Gordie Howe

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Gordie Howe

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

Gordon Bethune

The airline business is the biggest team sport in the world. When you're all consumed with fighting among yourselves, your opponents can run over you every day.

Glen Cook

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.

Georges St-Pierre

Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

Georges St-Pierre

People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.

Horace

Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

Herman Edwards

You play to win the game.

Herman Edwards

You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

Herman Edwards

This is what's great about sports. This is what the greatest thing about sports is. You play to win the game. Hello? You play to win the game. You don't play it to just play it. That's the great thing about sports: you play to win, and I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start tellin' me it doesn't matter, then retire. Get out! 'Cause it matters.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

Herb Brooks

Great moments are born from great opportunities.

Herb Brooks

You were born to be a player. You were meant to be here. This moment is yours.

Henry David Thoreau

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

Henry David Thoreau

One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five or six feet high, and float buoyantly there like a duck, cunningly taking to its wings and lifting itself a few feet through the air over the foaming crest of each breaker, but sometimes outriding safely a considerable billow which hid it some seconds, when its instinct told it that it would not break. It was a little creature thus to sport with the ocean, but it was as perfect a success in its way as the breakers in theirs.

Henry David Thoreau

Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.