Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nigel Short

Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo

Nick Faldo

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

Nick Goepper

We've separated from mogul and aerial skiing and we've built our own sport and our own tricks. And now we're going back to the roots. But the Olympics is a world stage for athletics and it's going to be pretty sweet to represent our sport and represent our culture and show everyone what we're all about.

Nick Goepper

All the athletes are individuals. This isn't a team sport. We all have our own styles, our own clothing preferences and our own way of doing things. That's the way I do things and I'm proud of it.

Nomar Garciaparra

That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.

Nomar Garciaparra

You know it as soon as you walk in Yankee Stadium. The electricity is there every time, every day.

Nolan Ryan

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

Nolan Ryan

I had the pleasure, as Robin said, to live a childhood dream as many young Americans and Puerto Rican children live that play youth baseball. And I feel honored and very thankful for that opportunity.

Nolan Ryan

It took me a while to figure that out and to realize what a gift that I had been given. And when I finally did, I dedicated myself to be the best pitcher I possibly could be, for as long as I possibly could be.

Nora Ephron

When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.

Nigel Mansell

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

Nigel Hamilton

Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!

Nastia Liukin

When I was much younger and still competing in gymnastics, I could rarely find inspiration outside of the sport.

Nastia Liukin

Gymnastics has given me everything in my life. I will continue to stay involved and try to give back to the sport that has given me so much.

Nastia Liukin

Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.

Nat King Cole

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

Monica Seles

You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there

Monica Lewinsky

Public shaming is a blood sport that has to stop.

Monica Lewinsky

As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

Miranda Hart

No one likes a show-off, but if parallel parking was an Olympic sport, I would get gold, no probs.

Mignon McLaughlin

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Johnny Gray

I am going to go out a winner if I have to find a high school race to win my last race.

Johnny Galecki

I was a huge theater geek growing up, and that was not the easiest thing in the world, especially growing up in Chicago, where sports are really the norm. I was always off to the theater at night, from 7 years old on. Friends there in the Midwest who could talk to you about the idiosyncrasies of 'Pippin' were few and far between.

John Wooden

You've never heard of them- and you never will .

John Wooden

It is normal to enjoy praise and dislike criticism. True character is when you prevent either from affecting you in a negative matter.

John Wooden

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it wont be successful.

John Wooden

If we, as coaches, aren't teachers, we are nothing

John Wooden

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

John Wooden

It is difficult for young players to learn - because of the great emphasis on records - but, ideally, the joy and frustration of sport should come from the performance itself, not the score. While he is playing, the worst thing a player can think about in terms of concentration - and therefore of success - is losing. The next worst is winning.

John Wooden

Why can't we have patience and expect good things to take time?

John Wooden

A Dominican monk, Father Henri Didon, used it as a watchword for his pupils in sports at Arcueil College in Paris. Baron Pierre De Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics, made it the Olympic Games ideal adopted at the Antwerp Games in 1920. I never mentioned winning to my players. I mentioned constantly that all I wanted them to do was the best they could. If they're good enough, the score will be to their liking; if they're not, it won't be but that's nothing to hang their head about. Sometimes the other fellow is just better than you are.

John Wooden

I constantly caution our teams: 'Play your game, just play your game. Eventually, if you play your game, stick to your style, class will tell in the end.' This does not mean that we will always outscore our opponent, but it does insure that we will not beat ourselves.