Sports Quotes - Page 306

War is the only sport which is genuinely amusing. And it is the only sport which has any intelligible use.

I hate sports the way people who like sports hate common sense.

All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

I didn't know how I was going to get to the Olympics, and in the beginning, I didn't really care. And that was the best part, because my desire exposed me to so many different sports, and in all of them, I always dedicated my best effort because I knew that's what it was going to take to become an Olympian.

There's an economy in sports that I always think is a useful metaphor for acting. You have an objective. You're trying to win, and of course, you want to do well. You want to use good techniques so you enforce it, but also you don't do things you don't have to do. It's very economical, and I think that in acting the most economical way through a scene is always the best. It's active. There is the sense of the fight and you want to win.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

Golf's the only sport that comes with a slave.

Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.

It's not a break until you hold your serve.

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.

Yes, I was detained for eight days in Waziristan in 1996. It was against my will, and my passport and money were taken from me. I was not mistreated or harmed, but I was also not allowed to leave.

I would love to try to win another game. Obviously, it's more fun when you win. I'd rather try and not win than not try at all.

If people really want to clean the sport of cycling up, all you have to do is put your money where your mouth is.

Morality has nothing to do with sports. Bad people can be good at sports and good people can be bad at sports.

There is a timelessness about sport. Like music and art, it is a quality that cuts across generations and nations. It provides a link between Australians of succeeding generations whether urging on a Donald Bradman or cheering and rejoicing in the America's Cup victory. Call it the spirit, the soul of sport - it will be in 2001 the same as it was in 1901.

I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.