Sports Quotes - Page 284

Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.

I can pick up any sport pretty quickly - believe me, I know how to throw a football.

Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.

Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

The passport changes but the blood doesn't

The stronger women get, the more men love football.

Bodybuilding is about making oneself seem larger than life. It's about creating the illusion of perfection.

Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.

Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.

Too often girls accept that of course the boys will get better lighting and seating at their sports events, of course the football team will get more attention, privileges, and space in the yearbook. We need to teach girls to look around and notice when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and then to insist on equal treatment.

The act of sport remains a human act, unrelated to gender.

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.

If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.

Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.

It was just something normal in my family to play sports. It wasn't necessarily forced on us. It was just something we enjoyed.

The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.

Learn to swim. It is a sport all the peasants can play.

For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall.

A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched.

If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.