Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eva Longoria

I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.

Eva Longoria

I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

Irwin Winkler

Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.

Irwin Shaw

Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

Ira Glass

I don't think I ever played any sports recreationally for my own pleasure. I was bad at them from the start.

Ilie Nastase

If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

Jack Markell

Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.

Jack Nicklaus

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.

Jack Nicklaus

This is a game. That's all it is. It's not a war.

Jack Nicklaus

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

Jack Nicklaus

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.

Jack Nicklaus

Arnold's place in history will be as the man who took golf from being a game for the few to a sport for the masses. He was the catalyst who made that happen.

Jack Nicklaus

I know it sounds selfish, wanting to do something no one else has done. But that's what you're out here for - to separate yourself from everyone else.

Jack Nicklaus

Before every shot, I go to the movies

Jack Nicklaus

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

Jack Nicklaus

A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.

Jack Nicklaus

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Jack Nicklaus

The game is meant to be fun.

Jack Nicklaus

Age doesn't make a difference either. Whether you're 20 or 70, you can still play together. There are so many different things you can do with golf that you can't do in other sports.

Jack Nicklaus

You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or she is going to be a great player. But anyone can play the game. That's the nice thing about the game. You don't really have to be a world-class athlete to play the sport [golf] and have fun because of handicap systems.

Jack Nicklaus

I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

Jack Nicklaus

There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and execution, the less chance your mind has to dwell on the emotional. This is sheer intensity.

Jack Nicklaus

What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.

Jack Nicklaus

You get the kids today into the sport, and then they can't get to the "next level." I mean, come on, that's a bunch of junk.

Jack Nicklaus

Athletes today get into a single-minded, one sport routine. I can't stand it.

Jack Nicklaus

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.

Jack Nicklaus

Sometimes the biggest problem is in your head. You've got to believe you can play a shot instead of wondering where your next bad shot is coming from.

Jack Nicklaus

I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.

Jack Nicholson

The fuel for the sports fan is the ability to have private theories.

Jack Nicholson

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this? What about that? Either you're safe or you're out. It's ten yards or it's not. It's in the hoop or out of the hoop. It's certain.

Jack Nicholson

I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.

Jack Nicholson

I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy.

Jack Kent Cooke

Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth.