Sports Quotes

I didn't grow up wanting to become an actor at all. I wanted to be a sports trainer and I was actually an aerobics instructor.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

Is that which was deemed to be of so fundamental a nature as to be written into the Constitution to endure for all times to be the sport of shifting winds of doctrine?

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

The sport needs the cash cow back.

Baseball is probably the world's best documented sport.

It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.

Maybe you can't play over your head at all. Maybe it's just potential you never knew you had.

I ain't got no right to judge someone.

From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story.

The most important thing taught to my students is to not be so photo realist in what they depict.

I like going to the gym every day.

Strong line quality, composition and form are more crucial although even this is loosely done.

I was the law and order.

It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.

The advantage does lie with us because we're at home and if we can't motivate ourselves for this match then we can't motivate ourselves for any match. I think the crowd will be up for it as well.

I just didn't have anything to say, so I said nothing.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

At least when it's in French, I won't know what the heck they're saying.

I was actually going to law school in 1972.

Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.

I feel the pressure but I embrace it. Whatever I have to do to make the sport catch on to other people, I'll do it.

You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

When I play sports, when I dance, when I teach mysticism, I cannot explain, even to myself, how I do what I do.

Zen students see themselves as athletes. Their competitive sport is enlightenment; only with enlightenment do we compete.

It is so much in the nature of men to overreach and deceive one another, that their very sports and plays are founded on that principle.

You've got to have the guts to not be afraid to screw up. The guys who win are the ones who are not afraid to mess up. And that comes right from the heart.

Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don't want to lose to high school guys. I don't want to lose to no one.

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

It was so easy to play tennis, so easy.

I want children, but at the moment the liberty I have now finally, has a far too high value.

It came so soon and so fast. It's just overwhelming. Every time I think about it, I just can't believe it.

Regarding the Hall of Fame, when they decided I was going to be one of the possible candidates, when I heard that, I was so thrilled. You're always hoping for something like that.

It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.

you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.

I want to play until the end.

Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.

Sporting culture is needed where marks are given to students for sports in schools, jobs are assured for sportsperson, and sponsors are willing to support them through rough times.

It is so important for young girls to be fit. I think sports is the key to success, because the challenges you face in sports prepare you for the rest of your life.

Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

You cannot say, 'Go! Go! Rah! Rah! Good move!' People want some emotion. Chess is an art and not a spectator sport.

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.

I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.

Every aspect of our lives are now connected: health, travel, sports, gaming, our homes, our cars - everything.

I was all limbs and I was very convinced that I must be uncoordinated, so I didn't want to try any sports. And the girls' basketball team was constantly like, "Please, please just come play."

We forget that the nineteenth century often turned work into sport. We, in contrast, often turn sport into work.

Sport is an essential element of education.