Sports Quotes - Page 272

It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.

I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

The only reason these kids keep score in these games is for the parents and coaches satisfaction. Who cares? They're 10 years old.

I do feel for me that cinema has somehow ceased to be a spectator sport. I get tremendous excitement out of making it rather than watching it.

It's not only hockey, it's every sport. You know, it's a big event.

It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.

It's only 60,000. It's not a big town. It's a big hockey town. Everybody plays hockey when you grow up.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

We really love all sports, but we don't think in the long term. The reason we did Kingpin was because there was a script we really liked and we saw the possibilities.

Miracles are great, but they're so damn unpredictable.

Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to the point where we are now ready to wipe ourselves off the earth. But I think that all the arts are needed, and sports too, and cooking, food, and all these different ways of communication. Smiles, looking into eyes directly, all these different means of communication are needed to save this world. But certainly a great melody

Where I fall down is my short game. I don't practice enough, and when I have to take a half swing from 50 yards out, that's trouble.

After I went through two years of not winning an event, what kept me going was winning one more major. Once I won that last U.S. Open, I spent the next six months trying to figure out what was next. Slowly my passion for the sport just vanished. I had nothing left to prove.

When I tied the record five years in a row, even over in Europe, it wasn't really talked about. It is disap-pointing because it is one of the toughest things to do in sports.

There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

By putting pressure on myself to develop a great game, I had less pressure to win. These days, I tell kids that the way I grew up, it wasn't about winning. It was about playing well, about playing the "right" way. That approach helped me enjoy the game and develop mine to its maximum potential.

I should have shut up when I went up there and talked to Carlton Fisk.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

Sports (and the often barely withheld violence around them) have become one of the few modern ways to connect with strangers. They give an amazing number of geeks things to talk about. In the old days we settled for, "Hello, how are you?

There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side.

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

My sport taught me what I could do with my talents, whether in the rink or in the rest of my life