Sport Quotes - Famous Top 100
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Quote of the day September 6th, 2010
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It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius |
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| Adversity cause some men to break; others to break records. WILLIAM ARTHUR WARD |
| also attributed to Vince Lombardi ANON. |
| Athletes need 'freedom of excess'. That is why we gave them this motto |
| Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor. ERNEST HEMINGWAY |
| Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. MIKE SINGLETARY |
| Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. BILL RUSSELL |
| Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money. DENNIS RODMAN |
| For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture. ERNEST BECKER |
| From speech in an Olympic Education event, 4 November 2000. VOULA PATOULIDOU |
| How many charming talents have been spoiled by the instilled desire to do 'important' work! Some people are born to lift heavy weights. Some are born to juggle with golden balls. MAX BEERBOHM |
| I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em. JIM VALVANO |
| I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion. TOM STOPPARD |
| I run because it's my passion, and not just a sport. Every time I walk out the door, I know why I'm going where I'm going and I'm already focused on that special place where I find my peace and solitude. Running, to me, is more than just a physical exercise... it's a consistent reward for victory! SASHA AZEVEDO |
| I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports. ARTHUR ASHE |
| If luck weren't involved, I'd win every tournament!Phil Hellmuth, PokerListings.com PHIL HELLMUTH |
| In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. JOE MONTANA |
| It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) |
| Never let a win get to your head, or a loss to your heart. CHUCK D, FROM SONG BY PUBLIC ENEMY HE GOT GAME |
| Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules, and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. GEORGE ORWELL, SHOOTING AN ELEPHANT, THE SPORTING SPIRIT, 1950 |
| Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? ANONYMOUS |
| Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. SOURCE UNKNOWN |
| Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all. OUIDA |
| Sports do not build character. They reveal it. JOHN WOODEN |
| Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence. GEORGE WILL, 1994 |
| Sports should always be fun. CHARLES MANN |
| Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. GENERAL GEORGE PATTON |
| The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. PEGGY FLEMING |
| The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it-as long as you really believe 100 percent. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER |
| The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost. GEORGE SHULTZ |
| There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. ROLAND BARTHES |
| There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis. ARTHUR ASHE |
| There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth. |
| This phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto. PIERRE DE COUBERTIN |
| When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out. TOMMY LASORDA |
| Winners never quit and quitters never win. |