Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Nutter

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Novak

Sports events do not really exist at all unless there is a certain order and fairness - justice in each event.

Michael Novak

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

Michael Novak

Sports is, somehow, a religion.

Michael Keaton

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.

Michael Keaton

Filmmaking is the ultimate team sport.

Marian Wright Edelman

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Martin Jacques

If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.

Martin Lewis Perl

They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

Mark Webber

When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made

Mark Wahlberg

Hockey is probably one of the most expensive sports. You have to have a place to play. You have to have the proper equipment. You have to have the transportation to get there.

Mark Wahlberg

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes.

Mark Hoppus

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports.

Maria Edgeworth

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

Mike Cameron

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years ...

Mickey Mantle

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

Mickey Mantle

As far as I'm concerned, Aaron is the best ball player of my era. He is to baseball of the last fifteen years what Joe DiMaggio was before him. He's never received the credit he's due.

Mickey Mantle

Roger Maris was as good a man and as good a ballplayer as there ever was.

Mickey Mantle

Today's Little Leaguers, and there are millions of them each year, pick up how to hit and throw and field just by watching games on TV. By the time they're out of high school, the good ones are almost ready to play professional ball.

Mickey Mantle

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

Mickey Mantle

Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part.

Mickey Mantle

I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.

Mickey Mantle

It's unbelievable how much you don't know about the game you've been playing all your life.

Mickey Mantle

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Nathan Kress

I do enjoy playing some sports, even though none of them are organized. I enjoy football most of all.

Nadia Comaneci

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

Nadia Comaneci

One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

Mitt Romney

I met a guy yesterday, 7 feet tall. Yeah, handsome, great big guy, 7 feet tall! ... I figured he had to be in sport, but he wasn't in sport.

Mitt Romney

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

Miroslav Klose

It's no shame to fall down, but it is a shame to just stay down.

Mike O'Malley

I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

Mike Piazza

You can't get real happy or real depressed when you play baseball. Baseball is a great sport in that it offers a player a lot of opportunities for atonement.

Mike Piazza

I long for the days when athletes were revered. I want to see the romance return to sports, to see people enjoy the game purely for the game and the players.