Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Toomey

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Bill Toomey

Once you have selected a sport or a creative activity, the rules are pretty much the same.

Bill Walsh

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

Bill Walton

You don't win championships by just being normal, by just being average.

Bill Walton

Being a broadcaster encompasses the business of sport, which is my life today, and it encompasses the skills of being a history student, and the ability of being a performer.

Bill Walton

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Bill Walton

Winning is about having the whole team on the same page.

Bill Watterson

No sport is less organized than Calvinball.

Bill Watterson

Animation, by necessity, is a team sport, and the fewer people with input into my work, the better I like it.

Bill Watterson

I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

Benoit Mandelbrot

Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

Will Self

If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Marriage...one of the most civilized institutions in the world...But...swimming is one of the most wonderful of sports, and yet there are always some people who cannot swim who insist on going into the water and getting drowned. Many people spoil marriage in a like manner. One should be sure she knows how to be married before rushing into it.

Bobby Orr

The kids wait for it to be organized. They want to go play all of these tournaments, for a little practice time. I learned my skills by dropping the puck just with the kids. I think that's missing today.

Bobby Orr

Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.

Bobby Orr

I've been a very lucky guy. I played on championship teams. I played for Canada. I've won some awards and I'm very proud of those accomplishments. But I don't think there's anything greater than to come home and to be recognized at home. This is the pinnacle.

Bobby Orr

You hear all the time about European players playing the game. These players that come over at 17, 18 and 19, they just don't all of a sudden become skilled. From the time they were little fellas, they learned the fundamentals of the game. Let them create.

Bobby Orr

We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

Bobby Orr

Growing up, if I hadn't had sports, I don't know where I'd be. God only knows what street corners I'd have been standing on and God only knows what I'd have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

Bobby Heenan

I'm a legend in this sport. If you don't believe me, ask me

Bobby Jones

Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course... the space between your ears.

Benjamin Franklin

There's no gain, without pain.

Benjamin Franklin

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Barbara Walters

Après ski is my favorite sport.

Arthur Conan Doyle

His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every peril in life is a form of sport, a fierce game betwixt you and Fate, with Death as a forfeit, made him a wonderful companion at such hours.

Bela Karolyi

This team just wasn't good enough today, but they had the unity I always wanted. To have an American team like this has always been a dream of mine.

Barry Switzer

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Barry Zito

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys, because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

Barry Zito

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

Barry Sanders

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

Barry Sanders

The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.

Bar Refaeli

These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.