Sports Quotes - Page 313

I had the drive to pursue speedskating and I found a sport that I was good at. If I'd got into cycling, I would just be another has been.

On today's athletes: I wish I could turn back the clock a little bit so I'd have a chance to cut it up with those guys.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

I love the sport but it's definitely taken a toll on me. The first two years after I retired I was in pain and couldn't even sit in a chair for 2 years. 2 years! You want a sport that takes care of you the way you take care of the sport.

I don't give players a chance to hit me.

Nah, I don't watch TV either, apart from a few sports programmes. I just don't have the time.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

I feel like every woman, and actually any guy who hasn't played that many sports, you secretly wonder, like, 'Would I be a pro athlete?'

I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world.

There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car.

Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.

Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives.

I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

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I used to play sports in school, but it was hard to do that because you're part of a team and you don't want to let your team down.

I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

As Christians, we're asked to give. In my sport, if someone needs equipment or help with something, regardless of who they are as a competitor, I'm called to help them for a higher purpose. So it definitely affects everything I do. It's not easy. It's very hard to love everyone.

I've got some other great teammates like Dallas Robinson and Johnny Quinn on the men's side who have been tremendous at showing Christ's love. It's not just the US teams, but there are also many believers from the international community including several from the Canadian team. We hope to grow Christianity throughout our sport.

We're talking about the Olympics. We're talking about trying to win the gold medal. All of these things can be overwhelming. But regardless of whether I win a gold medal or never compete again, I just have to trust that God has a plan for my life and I'm called to be His representative through the sport and outside of the sport.

Westward, beyond the still pleasant, but, even then, no longer solitary, hamlet of Charing, a broad space, broken here and there by scattered houses and venerable pollards, in the early spring of 1467, presented the rural scene for the sports and pastimes of the inhabitants of Westminister and London.

Musical beds is the faculty sport around here.