Sports Quotes - Page 271

I recommend sports, I don't recommend gambling.

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

That’s what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal.

Want to play baseball?’” she asked. Shane’s eyes opened, and he stopped stroking her hair. “What?’” “First base,’” she said. “You’re already there.’” “I’m not running the bases.’” “Well, you could at least steal second.’” “Jeez, Claire. I used to distract myself with sports stats at times like these, but now you’ve gone and ruined it.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

...chess is "a lot like football because you have to set up your offense and your defense, every once in a while you need to give up a piece of your team in order to make the big play. It's a game of patience, and that pretty much defines how I run the ball. I'm patient, always looking for the opportunity and always trying to capitalize on the other person's mistake."

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Happy family gives you a brick-by-brick foundation that you build on for the rest of your life. And then it teaches you so many things that are important in your life, like being a good sport, and not thinking negatively, and always having a good feeling for your fellow man. We went to wonderful schools. We just had a great life and I'm ever grateful for it.

In wondrous ways do the gods make sport with men. [Lat., Miris modis Di ludos faciunt hominibus.]

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

I've got three sons, and two of them would absolutely hate being on the stage and never liked appearing in their school plays or musicals, but the middle one absolutely loves it and never shows any sign of nerves or pressure and really gets a kick out of performing. I think it depends entirely on the child. And that applies to anything whether it's sport or entertainment or music or film.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

I'm forever gonna miss the start to the finish, the rush of racing downhill.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love has nothing to do with it.

Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.

Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Pleasures of worse natures Are gladly entertained, and they that shun us Practice in private sports the stews would blush at.

Success has many fathers; failures have none.

Whether it was hunting, fishing, or playing sports, my children were going to grow up outside. They weren't going to be sitting on the couch inside. At least they didn't grow up to be nerds.

I mean, sports are big, big, big business.

There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

It is Australian innocence to love The naturally excessive and be proud Of a thoroughbred gelding who ran fast.