Sports Quotes - page 2

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people. (William Petersen)
One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. View quote
Will McDonough
Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines. View quote
Benoît Mandelbrot
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore. View quote
John Adams
Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game. View quote
Branch Rickey
We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat, and every little detail of ours. Players are the real heroes. Sports have both respect and fame, and I am fortunate enough to be a sportsperson. View quote
Sania Mirza
No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace. View quote
Ai Weiwei
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. View quote
Heywood Broun
Undoubtedly many more people in the world are concerned with sports than with human rights. View quote
Samuel P. Huntington
Sports is like a war without the killing. View quote
Ted Turner
I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball? (Roger Ebert)
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. View quote
Barbara Walters
An old cat sports not with her prey. View quote
George Herbert
I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country's economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy. View quote
Benjamin Mkapa
The individual, by means of the discipline imposed on him by sport, not only plays and finds relaxation from the various compulsions to which he is subjected, but without knowing it trains himself for new compulsions. ... Training in sports makes of the individual an efficient piece of apparatus which is henceforth unacquainted with anything but the harsh joys of exploiting his body and winning. View quote
Jacques Ellul
Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant. View quote
Indro Montanelli
What they call "play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We Protestants ought to humbly confess that the theater and the sports have done more for race amity, for race understanding than, on the whole, the Protestant Church in certain type, in certain parts of the nation. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out. View quote
LeBron James
I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. View quote
Jane Austen
I might like to be an actor, but there are loads of other things I'm interested in as well, like music and writing and sports. I want to keep my options open. (Daniel Radcliffe)
Sing louder around To the bells cheerful sound, While our sports shall be seen, On the echoing green. View quote
William Blake
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. View quote
Jack Kevorkian
There's an undeniable pleasure in stepping into an open-top sports car driven by a beautiful woman. It feels like you're climbing into a metaphor. View quote
Hugh Laurie