Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patrick Henry

We have not yet begun to fight.

Pat Cash

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

Pat Conroy

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Pat Conroy

Through sports a coach can offer a boy a secret way to sneak up on the mystery that is manhood.

Jurgen Klinsmann

We coaches have to learn how to deal with that: How do I get to each one best - with a talk, with video analysis? And what sort of tone? We need our own coaches for that. The sports psychologist coaches me too.

Judah Friedlander

I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.

Rachel McAdams

I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.

Rachel Nichols

I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

Rachel Maddow

Every popular zillion dollar sport has its share of personal scandals around the sport and its leadership.

Rachel Maddow

I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

Neville Cardus

The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

Nevil Shute

If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

Nhat Hanh

In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

Noam Chomsky

Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.

Noam Chomsky

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense." But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.

Noam Chomsky

The elections are run by the same guys who sell toothpaste. They show you an image of a sports hero, or a sexy model, or a car going up a sheer cliff or something, which has nothing to do with the commodity, but it's intended to delude you into picking this one rather than another one.

Mike Piazza

Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.

Joey Galloway

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there.

Joey Cheek

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.

Joe Royle

Mario Balotelli is like Marmite, you either love him or hate him. Me? I'm in between.

Joe Scarborough

Look what's happened to Barack Obama over the last two years or George Bush for eight. It's a blood sport. But at some point I may feel the need to run for office again.

Joe Montana

In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.

Joe Montana

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling.

Joe Namath

I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!

Joe Namath

Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.

Joe Namath

I was focused on athletics, outdoors, sports.

Joe Namath

I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.

Joe Namath

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Joe Namath

Football is an honest game. It's true to life. It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.

Joe Dante

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.

Joe DiMaggio

Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.

Joe DiMaggio

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.