c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.
— Samuel Richardson
Editorial imagery licensing includes celebrity, entertainment, sports, and news images that capture what is happening in the world around us.
— Jon Oringer
I love team sports.
— Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
My father is a huge horse racing fan, so I was introduced to the sport long before 'Seabiscuit.' But the role made me an even bigger fan. Horse racing is one of my favorite sports.
— Elizabeth Banks
I had a friend at college who took being poor very personally. He started showering in the sports centre next door and said he wasn't going to pay for the hot water in our flat any more because he didn't use it. He made me and my other friend pay the bills on our own.
— Robert Webb
I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.
— Taylor Lautner
I always played sports when I was young. I played football and baseball for eight years. I loved football.
— Taylor Lautner
I did some sports. It was a bit frustrating. I wasn't the greatest sports person.
— Tim Burton
There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.
— Curt Schilling
Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.
— Curt Schilling
The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.
— Mario Andretti
I love all motor sports at the top level.
— Mario Andretti
I'm a big sports fan.
— David Chang
I've been a sports fan forever.
— Kygo
My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.
— Michael Sheen
I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
— Zac Efron
It feels silly to watch endless hours of winter sports every four years, when we never watch them any other time, and we don't even understand the rules, which doesn't stop us from scoring everyone, every run, every skate, every race.
— Jill Lepore
Thank you... fantasy football draft, for letting me know that even in my fantasies, I am bad at sports.
— Jimmy Fallon
I'm really into extreme sports and just having fun.
— Kellan Lutz
I'm not a big sports fan.
— Harlan Coben
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
— Harlan Coben
I am so fidgety - I swear I have ADD - and I always need to be doing something or being outside, just playing sports.
— Kellan Lutz
I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.
— Kevin Nealon
I only had one player in my 33 years of sports that couldn't be traded. He wore No. 23 - and 45 when he played baseball.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
I never heard of anyone saying they want to deploy their capital wisely and go buy a sports franchise. What you want to do is just not lose money. You see, I don't have to work anymore. I tell people I don't have a real job. On the other hand, I learned long ago that you can't go broke if you turn a profit.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved? Once you do get involved, you realize the team draws so much from the community, and it would be nothing without the support of it. You've got to give back. It needs to be a two-way street.
— Jerry Reinsdorf
I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.
— Nathan Fillion
At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic
Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.
— Joe Rogan
I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.
— Joe Rogan
I was more interested in playing sports than acting. I didn't take acting too seriously until the end of my junior year.
— Ving Rhames
It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing.
— Patrick Kane
I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.
— Andrew Ross Sorkin
Involvement in my kids' sports teams is something I have made time for over the years. I've also been able to coach all three of them in baseball and basketball, something that has strengthened our bonds and given me indescribable joy. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
— Thomas Perez
YouTube and other sites will bring together all the diverse media which matters to you, from videos of family and friends to news, music, sports, cooking and much, much more.
— Chad Hurley
I don't feel 50. I'm still ambitious, and I've only just got my licence to race sports cars. I race for an Aston Martin team called Beechdean, and it's a huge challenge.
— Paul Hollywood
When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
— Dan Gilbert
In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
— Dan Gilbert
When there were first rumors of us going after LeBron, some fans wondered how we could do that after all that happened. But after the 'Sports Illustrated' letter, every fan is thrilled to have him back. That was so heartfelt.
— Dan Gilbert
I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
— Seann William Scott
I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.
— Seann William Scott
I've got to be honest and say that, growing up, I wasn't a big sports guy, but I love the camaraderie. I just love people getting together, fighting for a team and getting super-emotional about it.
— Aaron Paul
I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
— Aaron Paul
At issue when professional sports teams take the name of Native Americans is the problem of mimicry: having appropriated the land and wealth of America's vanquished peoples, settler culture then appropriates the supposed values and spirit of the vanquished as well.
— Greg Grandin
I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
— Pamela Anderson
The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.
— Shahid Khan
You shouldn't turn on C-SPAN to get your sports update.
— Jason Chaffetz
I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.
— Charlotte Dujardin
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
— Ricky Williams
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
— Martina Navratilova
The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.
— Martina Navratilova
I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.
— Martina Navratilova
I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.
— Martina Navratilova
Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.
— Adrian Tomine
Sports is like a war without the killing.
— Ted Turner
I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
— Ted Turner
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.
— Asif Kapadia
I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.
— Asif Kapadia
I grew up in New Jersey and played sports and rode my bike around. It was a really nice time - kids didn't have cellphones then - and you knew everyone in the town.
— Aileen Lee
My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.
— Corey Taylor
The ESPN complex is a 255-acre playland, as beautiful and perfect as the Magic Kingdom itself down the road - except it's sports!
— Jeanne Marie Laskas
A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.
— Andy Murray
Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.
— Andy Murray
Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.
— Andy Murray
I used a lot of sports psychologists when I was younger... sometimes it helped, sometimes it didn't.
— Andy Murray
I leave work by 6:30 P.M. so I can spend some time with the children. Inevitably, we'll end up watching basketball or football. I live in a house of boys, and they're all sports mad, so I don't stand a chance.
— Aerin Lauder
Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.
— Gabrielle Union
I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
— Gabrielle Union
I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.
— Gabrielle Union
A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get - and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.
— Eliot Spitzer
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
— Rachel Platten
Boxing combines, in perfect proportion, strength, speed, and endurance. Normally, most sports are either about one of the three: either about speed or endurance or strength. Boxing combines all three of them. It's really intense.
— Edgar Ramirez
Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
— Chris Hardwick
While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.
— Chris Hardwick
I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
— Ted Sarandos
I don't think on-demand brings anything extra to sports.
— Ted Sarandos
I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
— Ted Sarandos
I'll always be into sports. Sports is part of my life forever. My TV stays on ESPN all day long, I'm one of those. I don't even listen to music in the car; all I listen to is sports talk.
— Action Bronson
My mom devised a plan to get me out of the house and gave me the choice between ballet or skating. She knew both of those sports were time-consuming and would keep me busy with hours of practice.
— Ashley Wagner
Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
— Ashley Wagner
I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.
— Ashley Wagner
I love hockey. That's actually one of my favorite sports.
— Ashley Wagner
There were only 75 people in my graduating class at the school I attended in Hannah, S.C. It was a small school and that translated into not a lot of opportunities when it came to music. We had academic and sports programs but we never had a consistent music program. We would have a band one year, and a chorus one year, but nothing ever lasted.
— Josh Turner
I started out as a camera operator. I was doing news, and I was doing sports - baseball games and football games. And I was acutely aware of women not really being in those roles then.
— Kathleen Kennedy
I like to play music and sleep. But most of all, I love to work... I don't really play sports, so I like to spend my time playing guitar or piano.
— Drake Bell
I work for ABC television I have my own syndicated TV series. I've been on the cover of 'Time Magazine' and on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated' five times. 
— Reggie Jackson
It was actually drumming that gave me the stamina to get into sports later. I started playing drums at 13, and when I got to the international touring level... I got interested in cross-country skiing, long-distance swimming, bicycling... things that require stamina, not finesse.
— Neil Peart
I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
— Neil Peart
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
— Lee Trevino
Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.
— J. J. Abrams
I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.
— Scott Bakula
My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.
— Scott Bakula
Since the break-up of the 1990s, Russia has not had winter sports facilities. All the winter sport venues were effectively located in countries that are no longer part of the federation. There is a strong argument for saying Sochi's legacy will be this country will have winter sports facilities it did not have before.
— Sebastian Coe
I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
— Kevin Costner
We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.'
— Jochen Zeitz
We always try to reinterpret sport in an innovative, fashionable way, and when we do fashion, we're always trying to bring our sports heritage into the fashion world.
— Jochen Zeitz
I think I'm skilful enough, but I don't consider myself a naturally talented, gifted sports person.
— Tony McCoy
The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more worried.
— Russell Crowe
There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
— Walter Dean Myers
I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.
— Leighton Meester
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.
— Josh Hutcherson
I play sports.
— Josh Hutcherson
I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
— A. S. Byatt
Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
— Bob Iger
People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.
— Robert Griffin III
I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.
— Joe Nichols
That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
— Joe Nichols
To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.
— Jerry West
Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.
— David Walton
When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.
— Jen Lancaster
Remember Circuit City? Bear Stearns? Lehman Brothers? Sports Authority? Once, all were billion-dollar companies - then gone in a moment. The fatal problem might be fraud or corruption, but more often, it's simply that management didn't see 'over the other side of the hill.'
— Stephen Bannon
I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.
— John Cleese
If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it.
— Larry King
Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.
— Larry King
I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.
— Larry King
I'm naturally athletic. I've been involved in sports since I could walk. So, for me to be sedentary is just unacceptable. Not only is it great for your physical body, but it gives me more energy during the day if I've worked out. I feel better. I look better.
— Eva Longoria
It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.
— Jeff Fisher
I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That's kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.
— J. C. Watts
I am the sort of athlete who participates in a lot of winter sports - basketball, for example, is an activity that I'll spend many hours a week watching.
— W. Bruce Cameron
It takes a tremendous amount of skill to be a football player. And some of these guys have enough skills to do other sports. Soccer could be one. Basketball could be another. Things where you need incredible hand-eye coordination are always options. I think a football player would be able to adapt to a lot of sports.
— Troy Polamalu
Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.
— Troy Polamalu
If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.
— Troy Polamalu
I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.
— Jeff Kinney
Most ball games are lost, not won.
— Casey Stengel
The great thing coming from sports is you understand the concept of a team. It leaves no room for being selfish, and that's something I picked up from home.
— Michael Strahan
The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.
— Rei Kawakubo
Sports are supposed to be fun, and so I have fun with the way I dress.
— Craig Sager
Sports are in my soul. That's what drives me.
— Craig Sager
I'm a kid from the small Illinois town of Batavia, who grew up on the Chicago Cubs and made sports his life's work, although there's never been a day where it actually seemed like work.
— Craig Sager
I look forward to continuing my work on the sidelines for Turner Sports.
— Craig Sager
As a young boy, I had the usual hobbies - sports, baseball cards, model airplanes and trains. But I always had a distinct fascination with trains.
— Craig Sager
I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.
— Craig Sager
I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important.
— Joe Namath
Where I came from, sports were the only way to get out front.
— Joe Namath
Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
— Joe Namath
I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
— Jamie Foxx
Good sports facilities are a blessing.
— Kapil Dev
Maybe a day will come when we may have to just put on a pair of glasses and see sports events.
— Kapil Dev
Sports is my passion.
— Kapil Dev
Natural hydration is a key factor in any type of sports performance.
— Bikram Choudhury
I guarantee you, yoga will compete with computers, music, sports, automobiles, the drug industry. Yoga will take over the world!
— Bikram Choudhury
'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
— Artie Lange
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
— Artie Lange
I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever.
— Norm MacDonald
I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
— Norm MacDonald
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
— Lucy Powell
I know many sports fans that don't enjoy soccer. The argument is that there's no action, not enough of it.
— Rabih Alameddine
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
— Jeremy Lin
Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.
— Adam Peaty
There is so much hypocrisy in sports.
— Dennis Rodman
I'm nothing more than a sports slave.
— Dennis Rodman
Wooden was the coach for the UCLA Bruins, arguably the greatest sports coach we ever had.
— Mark Frost
I don't know much about sports.
— Rene Russo
I wanted to use sports for social change.
— Billie Jean King
Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.
— Eric Church
In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.
— Martina McBride
I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it's a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car.
— Tiesto
I'm very down-to-earth and approachable, and I can be one of the guys and watch sports... I like to cook - I'm like the girl next door.
— Marisa Miller
Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.
— Dan Rather
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
— Tom Landry
At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.
— Nita Ambani
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
— John Gregory Dunne
If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
— Daley Thompson
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
— Thierry Henry
I went to dance class as a girl because I didn't like sports, but I never did a dance recital in my life. Never, ever, ever. I felt comfortable dancing, and I was happiest dancing, but I was never the best person in the class.
— Jennifer Grey
I remember when I was growing up, I always wore glasses and so if I was on-stage or just being able to move around playing sports, I was never really able to because I had glasses holding me back. Wearing contacts has just been very helpful.
— Joe Jonas
If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.
— Charlie Pierce
Your ups and downs in sports, I think they are as normal as daily life: One day you wake up and feel great, the next day you wake up and feel maybe less great.
— Michael Schumacher
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
— Barbara Walters
I've got four brothers, so with them and all our friends we had these sports parties in the basement. We'd play basketball, mini-sticks, baseball in the backyard, football, whatever it was. We were busy 24/7.
— Rob Gronkowski
I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.
— Joel Silver
It's our responsibility for the village to say, 'Hey we're going to create these programs,' whether it's sports, creative arts, music, we need some things to give young people positive things to do, and that's including jobs.
— Common
I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.
— Common
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
— Bill Toomey
My uncles and other relatives are against encouraging girls in every aspect, and that includes sports. I hardly interact with them. My parents are more open. They back me all the way.
— Saina Nehwal
If a man can beat you, walk him.
— Satchel Paige
I think that kids aren't even exploring the option of sports anymore, and they don't even know what they could do.
— Allyson Felix
I remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
— Jesse McCartney
I come from great stock. I didn't come from money. My parents both worked really hard to keep food on the table and give my sister and me opportunities to play sports and see what we were good at.
— Rickie Fowler
The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
— Gabe Newell
Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
— Bo Jackson
I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
— Gerald R. Ford
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
— Joe Montana
I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
— Kajal Aggarwal
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
— Phil Jackson
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
— Phil Jackson
I think life is sort of like a competition, whether it's in sports, or it's achieving in school, or it's achieving good relationships with people. And competition is a little bit of what it's all about.
— Sanford I. Weill
My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.
— Amy Klobuchar
My father has acted in over 700 films. My mother acted in one film, 'Kismat with Mithun Chakraborty,' in which my father also had a role. My father fell in love with her and would drive her around in his sports car, and they subsequently got married. My mom is the most beautiful woman and I think she has taken some serum to look young all her life.
— Shraddha Kapoor
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
— Earl Warren
The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time.
— Andrew Shue
My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
— Kate Upton
All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
— Pierre de Coubertin
The public schools I attended were dominated by athletics and rarely inspiring intellectually, but I enjoyed a small circle of interesting friends despite my ineptitude at team sports and my preference for reading.
— Harold E. Varmus
Let's face it. There is no setup in Pakistan to train and groom young players at the grassroots level in different sports. Those of us who did make a name for ourselves and became champions did it with our own initiative - there was no academy to back us till we reached a certain level on our own.
— Jahangir Khan
We live in a social world now, and there's no denying the power that Twitter has yielded across all verticals. Sports is a perfect fit because fans are highly emotionally charged and things happen quick.
— Amy Jo Martin
For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
— Elle Macpherson
Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.
— Carmelo Anthony
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
— Jimmy Connors
I love to talk about sports. I love sports it's just something that's in my nature. 
— Genesis Rodriguez
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
— Kurt Russell
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner. 
— Diana Nyad
I was a team sports guy, but I don't do that anymore. When I work out, it's alone.
— Jamie Bamber
I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.
— Vijender Singh
Through the years I have received my share of recognition for efforts in the fields of sports, the arts, the struggle for full citizenship for the Negro people, labor's rights and the fight for peace.
— Paul Robeson
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
— Joe E. Lewis
To me, acting used to be just, 'Get my face out there, get girls, make a little bit of money, make my mom proud.' It was just like sports. But there were moments in 'Moonlight' that I really felt like I had to know why he is the way he is. Or just people in general - why this person walks around with a frown on their face instead of a smile.
— Trevante Rhodes
We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country.
— Lorrie Fair
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
— Greg LeMond
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
— Greg Norman
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
— Martin Mull
There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
— Patrick Chan
The mind is absolutely instrumental in achieving results, even for athletes. Sports psychology is a very small part, but it's extremely important when you're winning and losing races by hundredths and even thousandths of a second.
— Michael Johnson
My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.
— Edwin Moses
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large.
— Edwin Moses
I overcame size with mechanics.
— Edwin Moses
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they 'slam dunk.' That's sexy.
— Emma Bunton
I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.
— Rooney Mara
The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.
— Chad le Clos
I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
— Joe Garagiola
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
— Joe Garagiola
I love sports. Anytime I can combine sports with a film I'm a happy guy. It's such a natural fit, because sports always seems to be a metaphor for life. Always, always, always.
— Dean Cain
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us.
— Omar Epps
Professional sports are something they can't control.
— Troy Vincent
I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.
— Daniel Handler
The crowd makes the ballgame.
— Ty Cobb
People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.
— Michael Lewis
Sports have always been a big part of my life. At school, I played a lot of different sports, and I was competing with other schools. I did everything: running, volleyball, basketball, soccer, Olympic-style gymnastics, and more! My history with sports gave me good concentration, focus, strength, and motivation to stay healthy.
— Izabel Goulart
I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.
— Sutton Foster
Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.
— Franz von Holzhausen
There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.
— Rebecca Lobo
I think sports is one of the places where race plays itself out publicly. Although we pretend it doesn't.
— Claudia Rankine
I just think that sports movies have such a built-in visceral, rooting interest, an epic win or lose redemptive quality. When they get it right, it can make for a really rousing movie experience.
— Shawn Levy
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
— Jim Bishop
I played a million different sports when I was growing up. I started when I was probably five or six, and we'd just go from activity to activity to activity. I think, finally, my parents just realized that we were missing something in our lives. They realized that it was time for us as a family to start going to church.
— Sam Bradford
I think badminton has a real legacy with more youngsters taking up the sport. Badminton has done really well in that regard compared to other sports.
— Rajiv Ouseph
We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.
— Lowell McAdam
I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.
— Jay Baruchel
The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.
— Douglas William Jerrold
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
— Gary McCord
I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person.
— Michelle Wie
You cannot win if you cannot run.
— Hank Stram
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept.
— James Collins
I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
— Gail Kelly
Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
— Trishelle Cannatella
Mountaineering is one of the most difficult sports - we are away from routine life for days, living in tents, and it requires high degree of physical and mental strength.
— Samina Baig
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
— Sandy Koufax
You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.
— Chesty Puller
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
— Hugo Black
And I watch 'Saturday Night Live' religiously, I have since I was a little boy. I watch it basically like one of my favorite sports teams.
— Ty Burrell
When you're a kid growing up, and you think you're gay, you know that you're different; you're often teased and it can really destroy your self-esteem. But sports can be great for building self-esteem.
— Greg Louganis
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
— Harry Caray
In football, time and space are the same thing.
— Graham Taylor
In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.
— Jimmy Hill
Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
— Wayne Brady
I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
— Whitey Herzog
Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
— Jack Zipes
I loved to do sports when I was young. We were on a family holiday and went sailing. I just loved it. And there, you can say, life began to change for me.
— Hannah Mills
Sports is all about money.
— Lynn Samuels
Like the rabid fans of sports, the same goes for fans and their actors, TV shows and movies. You love what you love, and it bonds you with others who love the same thing.
— Kristoffer Polaha
The integrity of the game is everything.
— Peter Ueberroth
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
— Peter Ueberroth
Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
— Peter Ueberroth
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
— Al McGuire
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
— Juan Antonio Samaranch
Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.
— Chick Hearn
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
— John Leonard
Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
— Melvin Maddocks
I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
— Steve Fossett
The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.
— Dave Checketts
What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
— Bill Russell
My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
— Arthur Blank
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
— Robert Wilson Lynd
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
— Roger Kahn
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
— Robert Huber
I don't gamble at all, all my life. I am only interested in sports.
— Stanley Ho
The guy who enters pro sports hasn't run scared from the 7th grade on. Until he enters the pros, it's been nothing but roses.
— Jim Finks
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
— Harry Vardon
Baseball is a man maker.
— Al Spalding
I've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
— Kari Matchett
It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
— Inga Cadranel
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
— Ed Skrein
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
— Al Boliska
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
— Bob Verdi
What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
— Bob Verdi
He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
— Nick Price
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
— Nick Price
I checked on the Internet this morning, and I realized that with five individual world titles, I was level with my elders Florian Rousseau and Arnaud Tournant, who were the sprint leaders in France when I started at the French Institute of Sports and taught me everything. I had the chance to overtake them, and I did it.
— Francois Pervis
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
— Charley Lau
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
— Tommy Bolt
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
— George Deukmejian
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
— Eric Liddell
The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space.
— Marilyn Monroe
I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact.
— Elon Musk