Famous Quotes & Sayings

Aaron Tveit

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

Alan Thicke

My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

Alan Thicke

On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.

Alan Shepard

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Alan Shearer

At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

Alan Kulwicki

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

Alan King

My favorite way to spend Saturday is in and out of bed, watching sports on TV and eating.

Charles Dickens

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on earth in the night season, and melt away in the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

Chi Chi Rodriguez

Only fools live in the past or carry envy to the present.

Cheryl Cole

If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at.

Charles Lamb

To sigh, yet feel no pain; To weep, yet scarce know why; To sport an hour with Beauty's chain, Then throw it idly by.

Charles Lamb

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

Charlie Kaufman

I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

Charles Saatchi

Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

Charles M. Schulz

Cartooning is preaching. And I think we have a right to do some preaching. I hate shallow humor. I hate shallow religious humor, I hate shallow sports humor, I hate shallowness of any kind.

Charles Horton Cooley

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Charles Haley

If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Bob Beamon

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

Bing Gordon

I ran the high school newspaper and was in student government. I played sports my whole life but was never picked as captain.

Bipasha Basu

I want to do a movie on sports - like a movie on a racer or a marathon runner - as I feel I'll fit that bill perfectly.

Bill Lee

You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Bill Lee

When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.

Bill Maher

The only sport I really get into is snowboarding. Cause that's the only sport where they perform a half pipe just after smoking a full pipe.

Bill Maher

Guys you have way too much invested in sport. Guys you are not the tenth man. You're a machine for turning beer into piss that's what you are!

Bill Maher

Stop saying athletes do it for the love of the game. They do it for the love of their 32-room mansion with the live shark tank in the living room. If pro sports paid minimum wage, Shaquille O'Neal would be a bouncer at Scores, and Anna Kournikova would be a mail-order bride from Minsk.

Bikram Choudhury

I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!

Bill Belichick

I don't think there's anybody in this organization not focused on the 49ers...I mean Chargers.

Beth Brooke

I find it fascinating that sport has such a strong connection to success in business. Arguably, C-suite women are some of the most successful women, and more than half of them played at a more advanced level than just the general population of women in business that had sport in their background.

Bob Lilly

Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way. He is extremely generous as well. How many artists are willing to donate some of their best works to charity? The Texas Sports Hall of Fame has benefited greatly from Medlock's donated paintings, which are the cornerstones of our auction!

Bob McKenzie

If I were the commissioner of all sports media, the one change I would make is to sprinkle a little niceness and civility across our industry. Just a touch.

Bill Toomey

I think that money has changed my sport.