Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry Sloan

These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.

Jerry Rice

I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

Jerry Rice

You know, I never looked down the road and said, 'Hey look, one day, the Hall of Fame.' It's always about playing each and every game 100 percent and I thank my teammates for getting me into the Hall because football is a team sport, not an individual sport.

Jerry Saltz

You can't prove Rembrandt is better than Norman Rockwell - although if you actually do prefer Rockwell, I'd say you were shunning complexity, were secretly conservative, and hadn't really looked at either painter's work. Taste is a blood sport.

Jerome Holtzman

Losing is the great American sin.

Jeremy Abbott

If and when I decide to retire I want to perform. I want to be on the ice. I want to continue contributing to the sport. I feel like I still have a lot to offer.

Jens Lehmann

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

Jenson Button

A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles.

Jenson Button

I think as a 20-year-old you expect life to always be easy. You get given a good hand and the chance to race in Formula One. You think the driver can make the difference, can make up for everything else within the team. But that is not the case. You are racing in such a competitive sport so that doesn't happen.

Jenson Button

I think fans of the sport have a good understanding now of how fit Formula One drivers need to be.

Jeffrey Katzenberg

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

Jeffrey Kluger

The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.

Jeffrey Kluger

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

Jeff Koons

I'm really not a person who consumes a lot. I don't have a sports car.

Jim Abbott

I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.

Jim Abbott

I worked very hard. I felt I could play the game. The only thing that could stop me was myself.

Jim Abbott

In the 8th inning you can't hear the roar of the 9th, all you can do to hold yourself together, and trust.

Jim Abbott

People will tell you that I overcame obstacles? Maybe. But the truth is I was incredibly blessed in my life. More was given than was ever taken away.

Jim Abbott

Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.

Jesse Schell

The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.

Jesse Metcalfe

I didnt really watch Dallas growing up, as I was a bit young and into other things, like sports.

Jesse Owens

I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.

Jesse Owens

For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.

Jesse Owens

Every morning, just like in Alabama, I got up with the sun, ate my breakfast even before my mother and sisters and brothers, and went to school, winter, spring, and fall alike to run and jump and bend my body this way and that for Mr. Charles Riley.

Jesse Owens

Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.

Jesse Owens

It was bad enough to have toppled from the Olympic heights to make my living competing with animals. But the competition wasn't even fair. No man could beat a race horse, not even for 100 yards.

Jesse Owens

Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.

Jesse Owens

It's like having a pet dog for a long time. You get attached to it, and when it dies you miss it.

Jesse Owens

We used to have a lot of fun. We never had any problems. We always ate. The fact that we didn't have steak? Who had steak?

Jesse Owens

He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.

Jesse Owens

In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.

Jesse Owens

People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.

Jesse Owens

I fought, I fought harder . . . but one cell at a time, panic crept into my body, taking me over.