Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lee Trevino

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Lee Trevino

I'm not out there just to be dancing around. I expect to win every time I tee up.

Lee Trevino

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

Lee Trevino

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

Lawrence Jackson

Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.

Lawrence Schiller

The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it's going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they're going to be.

Lawrence Lessig

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Lauren Groff

Writing is the lonely sport of sad sacks.

Larry King

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.

Larry King

I did everything when I started. In Miami I did news, I did weather, I did sports, I did disk-jockeying. And I did a sports talk show every week - every Saturday night.

Lewis Hamilton

Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

Lewis Hamilton

Formula One was a very dangerous sport. It still is dangerous. But the danger factor is also the exciting part.

Lewis H. Lapham

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.

Lewis Black

Is a BJ adultery? What? Did I miss a day of school? Of course it is! Oral sex is adultery like Curling is an Olympic sport. The only thing is, oral sex should be in the Olympics because it's much harder than Curling, and if you're good at it, you DESERVE a medal!

Joyce Maynard

Before I had children I always wondered whether their births would be, for me, like the ultimate in gym class failures. And I discovered instead... that I'd finally found my sport.

Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum

I want Dubai to be a place where everybody from all over the world meets each other, don't think of fighting or hate, just love it, enjoy their sport, and that's it.

Minka Kelly

I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.

Mike Krzyzewski

I had a really bad temper, when I was growing up. Sport helped me channel that temper into more positive acts.

Mike Krzyzewski

I'm still not a great reader, but my wife is and my daughters are, and I envy them. I think I got into a bad habit of trying to do something all the time, instead of trying to sit down and take my time a little bit.

Mike Krzyzewski

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

Mike Krzyzewski

When I went to high school, an all-boys' school, a Catholic school, I tried out for football, and I didn't make it. It was the first time, athletically, that I was knocked down.

Mike Krzyzewski

If you win a National Championship, or you win two, people think you have not only seen the Holy Grail, but you've embraced it. Basically, I do what a lot of people do, but I've been able to win.

Mike Krzyzewski

My parents didn't really understand too much about sport. At that time, we were in a Polish community in the inner city of Chicago, and I was the youngest of a bunch of cousins. Polish families are real big, with cousins and aunts and uncles.

Mike Krzyzewski

Once you win a National Championship, how do you do that again? How do you get the passion to do that again? We won it again right away, the next year. A lot of it had to do with the fact that I didn't give myself an opportunity to enjoy the first one.

Mike Krzyzewski

Playing sport was somewhat frivolous, but I liked it. I rebelled a little bit, and wouldn't go to music lessons and things like that, but I would go and play ball. My parents learned to love it because they saw how much I got out of it.

Mike Krzyzewski

There are kids don't want to do something because they're afraid of looking stupid to their peers. There comes a time when they start protecting themselves, instead of extending. I want to make sure that they're always trying to extend themselves.

Mike Krzyzewski

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

Mike Krzyzewski

The life expectancy of a team is about eight months. Then the next year, it's a whole new team.

Mike Krzyzewski

I have a rule on my team: When we talk to one another, we look each other right in the eye, because I think it's tough to lie to somebody. You give respect to somebody.

Paula Radcliffe

It's important that athletes can compete on a level playing field. And youngsters coming into the sport can know that if they are working hard and training hard, they'll see a true reflection of where they stand and what they can achieve worldwide and not be swayed by people who are cheating.

Paula Radcliffe

I have been doing 120 miles a week, when normally I would do about 140.

Paula Radcliffe

I can't imagine living and not running.

Paula Radcliffe

Every time I go out and race it's a goal to go out and run faster than I've done before.