I.B. George Quotes

I would never tell anybody to give up hockey - the great sports we have here - basketball, lacrosse - rugby coming into its own - we've got so many great team sports, and I say hold on to them.

Sports are sports. Its all about how we carry ourselves out of the ring.

I'd have to say losing the title to Ali in '74 was the lowest moment in sports for me. It was the most devastating thing in my boxing career, and it still hurts to this day.

The Olympics are never just about sports.

There may not be much future for the kind of sports column I did.

I will always treasure the privilege of writing the 'Sports of The Times' column.

Some religious guys in sports give the impression, 'I've got something you don't have.'

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

The discovery and investigation of life on other planets is likely to change many of our ideas about how life arose on the Earth and even what is life and its natural development.

I always loved computers - it's something inside you.

I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

One of the gifts of 'Star Trek' is my professional work colleagues have become my lifelong friends.

I think anyone who is famous is a moron if they're on Twitter. It's just stupid.

Barack Obama hopes his famous health care victory will mark him as a transformative president. History, however, may judge it to have been his missed opportunity to be one.

In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Winning is the science of being totally prepared.

I remember in school once the teacher gave us a speech about anyone can make it if they try, and then she looked at me and said. 'I don't know what you are going to do, Georgie.'

I learned early on that 'rabbi' means teacher, not priest.

It takes so much strength to say to your ego, 'You know what? You're going to keep me lonely, so I have to ignore you.'

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

'Star Trek' is about acceptance, and the strength of the Starship Enterprise is that it embraces diversity in all its forms.

We need strength and success elsewhere in our country - not by pulling London down but by building the rest of the country up.

I got a strength coach. My wife. She gets big chains, and at night she puts them around the refrigerator. They are so strong, I can't break them.

Europe has a lot of strength. We need to pool that strength, and I am very much in favour of that - more of a deeper political union.

A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else.

It takes patience to appreciate domestic bliss volatile spirits prefer unhappiness.

He preacheth patience that never knew pain.

I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

As my audience grew more diverse, I started interjecting social justice advocacy and commentaries about LGBT equality, and it just kept growing more.

I do think that Japan will be one of the nations that have equality, and that, too, will serve as an example for other Asian nations.

The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.

My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a brand new day. She said every morning is a new gift. Her favorite hobby was collecting birthdays.

Every day, getting up early in the morning before much traffic, my wife takes me 10 miles from home, drops me off, and I have to get back.

What is important is the reliability of my posts being there to greet my fans with a smile or a giggle every morning. That's how we keep on growing.

'Old times' never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

The average citizen in this county has more intelligence and sense in his little finger than the editor of 'The New York Times' has in his whole head.

But if each man could have his own house, a large garden to cultivate and healthy surroundings - then, I thought, there will be for them a better opportunity of a happy family life.

The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?

It's essential for the U.S. and Europe to prevent Putin from going farther and reversing the hard-won independence of former Soviet republics.

For me, tribalism and religion are basically the big reasons we're in trouble. Patriotism, tribalism, and religion.

Part of it went on gambling, and part of it went on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Nature makes woman to be won and men to win.

The test of civilization is its estimate of women.

Part of the $10 million I spent on gambling, part on booze and part on women. The rest I spent foolishly.

Life is a lot like jazz... it's best when you improvise.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.