Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jerry West

The marketing of players has created untold wealth for many sports stars. You can't blame them or the company that covets the relationship with them, but that doesn't mean the player is good.

Jerry West

As a player all you can do is play within yourself, even in the context of a team sport.

Jerry Springer

I watch sports and cable news. I'm a political junkie, so that's my interest.

Jerome Bettis

It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.

Jello Biafra

I got out of that immediately was that now, all of a sudden, rock music had become a spectator sport, that corporate labels and their bands were the new establishment, and punk was there to fight them the way the activist hippies must have fought what the establishment must have been ten years before. And it was interesting to see the reactions in different parts of the country.

Jello Biafra

We need a new law that owners of SUVs (Sport Utility Vehicles) are automatically in the military reserve. Then they can go get their own goddamn oil.

Jeanne Tripplehorn

I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.

George Eliot

Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon.

George Eliot

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Geoffrey Rush

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Gary Player

The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

Gabriel Basso

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

Gabe Newell

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

Gabriel Iglesias

It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.

Gabriel Iglesias

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

Frank Robinson

No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.

Frank Robinson

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

Frank Robinson

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Frank Shorter

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

Frank Shorter

I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it.

Frank Shorter

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Frank Shorter

For the novice runner, I'd say to give yourself at least 2 months of consistently running several times a week at a conversational pace before deciding whether you want to stick with it. Consistency is the most important aspect of training at this point.

Frank Shorter

There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.

Frank Shorter

I started in law school in '71 and graduated in '74. So I was training for the Olympics, running or averaging around 20 miles a day and going to law school full time.

Frank Shorter

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.

George J. Mitchell

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not.

George Herbert

An old cat sports not with her prey.

George Herbert

Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.

George Herbert

It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

Chris Hedges

War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.

Chris Hedges

I have seen children shot in El Salvador, Algeria, Guatemala, Sarajevo, but I have never before watched soldiers entice children like mice into a trap and murder them for sport.

Chris Hardwick

Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.