Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gale Sayers

I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.

Frederik Pohl

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Fred Couples

There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.

Erich Fromm

If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

Marion Motley

Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.

Tommy Lasorda

I've always called L.A. 'the world capital of sport.'

Scott Hamilton

There's more to sports than just being big and strong and quick.

We don't view sports as better than clubs,

Michael Keaton

I'm getting more and more bored with professional sports, but I still watch.

Saina Nehwal

I want to see more sports in schools.

I tried other sports and it wasn't as fun. It must be in the blood, I guess.

Barry Bonds

Everyone has their time and era, ... In all sports.

In my sport, we're measured in millimeters and fractions of millimeters.

In Nashville, they like their sports and they like their basketball, so if you're good, you're going to be pretty well known.

Carla Gugino

I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

Carla Gugino

When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.

Byron White

Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.

Buzz Bissinger

I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

Bum Phillips

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

Bum Phillips

Because she is too ugly to kiss goodbye.

Bud Grant

The tragedy in sports is seeing a team beaten not by a better team, but by themselves.

Bubba Smith

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

Bubba Smith

We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.

Bubba Smith

We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

Bubba Smith

The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.

Bubba Smith

I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.

Bud Selig

The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.

Bud Selig

I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

Budd Schulberg

Boxing is a mental sport. Think of a prizefight as a chess game of mind and body, and you are a little closer to it than if you compare it to a bloody brawl in an alley.

Bud Wilkinson

Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.

Bud Wilkinson

If you are going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price.

Bubba Watson

My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here.

Bubba Watson

I don't play the sport for fame. I don't try to win tournaments for fame. I don't do any of that. It's just me. I'm just Bubba. I goof around. I joke around. I just want to be me and play golf.