c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Mothers tend to be more direct. Fathers talk to other fathers about their kids more metaphorically. It's a different way of communication.
— Richard Louv
But if I can be convinced and then through the work that we do together, the orchestra can really be convinced of the big sweep of that communication that the piece suggests, then the audience will get it and it will be a good experience for all of us.
— Michael Tilson Thomas
States are looking for low-cost solutions that will enable better communication, while avoiding the danger in which the chain of command breaks down in emergencies. We do not want everyone talking to everyone else all the time.
— John Shimkus
Every single means of communication amongst the public, the government has antennae into, to find out who is liable to be sympathetic and who is not liable to be sympathetic, and I think this has probably been going on since all channels of communication began.
— David Lloyd
It's so important in marriage to let the little things go and let the pride go. Forgiveness is so important, and communication. Don't major on the minors.
— Kimberly Schlapman
I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
— Randa Abdel-Fattah
If I'm doing a show on Sunday at 7 P.M., that wouldn't be the same show that I'd do at 11 P.M. on a Saturday - it's a different room at a different time of day with different sensibilities. That doesn't mean you have to compromise your art, but it is communication: you have to know how to talk to people.
— Michael Che
From my time at Nokia, I've seen the 99% positive and occasionally negative impact that communication tools can have on people.
— Jan Chipchase
It is vital that the United States maintains open lines of communication with our allies. We must assure them of our commitment to eradicating global terrorism wherever it may reside or wherever it's given haven.
— George Allen
Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.
— Lynne Truss
That was when I realised that music is the most profound, magical form of communication there is.
— Lesley Garrett
I'm glad you asked that question, because of any musical situation I've been in, the communication feels great here with Russell. He really pays close attention to what I'm doing because he cares.
— Benny Green
There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies.
— Miroslav Vitous
History has demonstrated that efforts to censure and control communication will not succeed.
— Ricardo Salinas Pliego
I'm not the first person to say this, but communication at 'SNL' - I don't want to say it's not good, but unless you ask questions, you will not know what's going on.
— Pete Davidson
Trust is the most important part of a relationship, closely followed by communication. I think that if you have those two things, everything else falls into place - your affection, your emotional connection.
— Vanessa Lachey
Product investment, quality management, and all the things that are key for a car company - great, there has been no compromise in those aspects. But I feel there's a lot we could do on communication, particularly from a Chinese perspective.
— Li Shufu
So as I look at transitioning to the communication platforms of the future, I see that the beauty of Internet protocols is you get the separation of the layers between service and technology.
— Michael K. Powell
I use a Blackberry. I'm so behind on mobile communication technology, I think a smartwatch may be too far a leap.
— Derek Blasberg
The process of communication with the afterlife - more of an exchange than a conversation - has always fascinated me.
— Rory MacLean
Why did God give me two ears and one mouth? So that I will hear more and talk less.
— Leo Rosten
Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.
— Steven Bochco
The church acknowledges some Scientologists choose to sever communications with family members who leave. The church says it is a fundamental human right to cease communication with someone. It adds disconnection is used against expelled members and those who attack the church.
— John Sweeney
Sometimes I worry that science communication is just preaching to the choir, speaking to the converted. Social media gives us an amazing opportunity to reach new people.
— Elise Andrew
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication.
— Ralph Ellison
I think the greatest challenge between child and parent is communication.
— Sean Covey
We emphasize that such a form of communication is not absent in man, however evanescent a naturally given object may be for him, split as it is in its submission to symbols.
— Jacques Lacan
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
— John Cheever
People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.
— Mike Farrell
But despite the universality of URLs, we often forget that they're not just a handy way to address network resources. They're also valuable communication tools.
— Jesse James Garrett
If you look at the history of communication, new technologies like the phone and e-mail didn't just let people do things faster; it fundamentally changed the scope of the kinds of projects people dared to take on.
— Justin Rosenstein
I learned mime back when I was in college, at Ball State University, Indiana. That woke up my body from the neck down and made me realize that acting and communication - portraying a story, event, or emotion - is a full-body experience.
— Doug Jones
The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
— Sheila E.
Poetry is the communication through words of certain experiences that can be communicated in no other way.
— John Drinkwater
Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.
— Justin Rosenstein
Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.
— Paul Washer
If we ever start communicating with living creatures from other planets, the number one priority is, how are you going to communicate information? Even between different cultures here on Earth, you get into communication problems.
— Story Musgrave
Their spirituality was in nature, even though Emerson was a preacher on the pulpit, he ended up going out into nature for direct, face-to-face communication with God, if you want to call all of this creation part of God.
— Story Musgrave
For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.
— Bill Plympton
My daughter Stacia was born when I was 31, after I was divorced from David, and she was my gift to myself. She was just a joy because I didn't have the stress of a male irritating me, and I vowed that I would make absolutely certain that between her and me there would be a clear line of communication at all times.
— Angela Bowie
Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior.
— Charles Sturt
I've taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it's a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
— Alan Lightman
I think each film I do has less and less dialogue. It really helps a lot for foreign sales, because when I go to Europe, there's very little problem with communication. All the gags are visual. The music they can understand, and it helps communicate a lot better.
— Bill Plympton
I don't think that TV on the Radio is some dark mysterious band that no one can know about. We write music because it's an immediate form of communication. We're able to put on record what's happening in our times, and we want that message to be heard by the most amount of people.
— Dave Sitek
Canada's a huge country, so to be able to unite the country through communication satellite technology or to be able to observe it through remote sensing technology from space is a natural fit for a country like Canada.
— Marc Garneau
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
— Kelly Miller
I shall suggest, on the contrary, that all communication relies, to a noticeable extent on evoking knowledge that we cannot tell, and that all our knowledge of mental processes, like feelings or conscious intellectual activities, is based on a knowledge which we cannot tell.
— Michael Polanyi
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts.
— Laurie Helgoe
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
— Victoria de los Angeles
People could live very happily without the Turner Prize, but they could not live without real communication and emotion.
— Billy Childish
A communication highway without content is inconceivable.
— Hubert Burda
We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.
— Jorge M. Perez
Significant officials at publicly traded companies are casually and cavalierly engaged in insider trading. Because insider trading has as one of its elements communication, it doesn't take rocket science to realize it's nice to have the communication on tape.
— Preet Bharara
I do not pretend to know precisely what is on foot there; but I think it pretty evident that there is a very free communication between that country and this body, and unless I am greatly mistaken, I see the dwarfish medium by which that communication is kept up.
— Benjamin F. Wade
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.
— Ernst Toller
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
— Scott McCloud
I don't start with a design objective, I start with a communication objective. I feel my project is successful if it communicates what it is supposed to communicate.
— Mike Davidson
I didn't have a lot of communication with Elvis. You had to go through a barricade to get to Elvis. It was people hanging on every word, and I felt very uncomfortable a lot of times.
— Mac Davis
Texting is a lot like an answering machine. If you don't want to talk to somebody, it's like screening your calls. To me, it's a way of communication, but not one that I favor.
— Pat Gillick
I'm a very physical person. I'm very tactile. I wrestled in college, so a lot of my communication with the world comes through physicality - what I take in and what I put out there.
— Gbenga Akinnagbe
In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.
— August Krogh
In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.
— Magnus Larsson
On the other hand, in a society whose communication component is becoming more prominent day by day, both as a reality and as an issue, it is clear that language assumes a new importance.
— Jean-Francois Lyotard
The limits of sensory evolution in fish are defined very largely by their habitat. Water is physically supportive, carries some kinds of odour well, and is kind to sound - letting it travel several times faster than air will allow, but it inhibits other more personal kinds of communication.
— Lyall Watson
It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better.
— Marya Mannes
It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.
— Marya Mannes
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
— Carol Berg
The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.
— Bob Parsons
A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.
— Robert M. Hutchins
Cove is essentially a collaboration, coordination and communication tool for the administration of organizations and communities, from the Stanford Graduate School of Business Entrepreneurship Club to church groups and schools.
— Ruchi Sanghvi
Wise people say nothing in dangerous times.
— John Selden
People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.
— Lee Grant
We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.
— Oliver Joseph Lodge
The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
— Warren Rudman
My mother and I always had full adult communication.
— Erin Gray
By supporting all the links in the building chain and giving them an easy, intuitive tool for sharing model-based project information, GTeam enhances workflows and improves communication from design through to fabrication and assembly.
— Greg Lynn
My mother was a very talented artist. When she was in jail, we'd write letters back and forth; that was pretty much the only form of communication we had.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
It sounds so trite but in relationships, you have to communicate.
— Peter Krause
With docs, there's often a very direct communication between the filmmaker and the audience. With narrative movies, we leave it a little bit more open.
— Tom McCarthy
I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
— Fernando Flores
A lot of the music editing job is communication and working out what a director really wants the music to be.
— Steven Price
I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.
— Emily Robison
The dynamic drives of modern economic growth, in the countries that entered the process ahead of others, meant a reaching out geographically; and the sequential spread of the process, facilitated by major changes in transport and communication, meant a continuous expansion to the less developed areas.
— Simon Kuznets
My grandmother died in 1991 and I was born in '86. We only met once, but I didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish - so we had a communication problem.
— Oona Chaplin
Continuing on my theme of backing inclusive innovations, I am optimistic of the success of Uniphore. Man-machine communication is one of the more complex problems to solve. Uniphore's vision lends possibility of finding a solution to this very difficult problem, and the company has already made substantial progress.
— Kris Gopalakrishnan
The knowledge we have of communication among cells does not permit my giving you a sophisticated understanding.
— Paul Greengard
I try not to put messages in my songs. My only message is man's communication with his fellow man. I want to narrow the gap of strangeness and alienation.
— Rod McKuen
Illiteracy is rampant. People are out of communication.
— Karen Black
Strange about parents. We have such easy access to them and such daunting problems of communication.
— James Merrill
If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
— Ben Wheatley
Normally, in the presence of radiation, communication links fail. But with autonomous robots, you don't need communications.
— Vijay Kumar
I like to read, especially nonfiction. I love learning, so I study languages, cook, learn basic HTML, and enjoy other activities that stimulate communication and the dark recesses of my musician's brain.
— Joshua Roman
GPS is expensive because it is a very slow communication channel - you need to communicate with three or four satellites for an extended duration at 50 bits per second.
— Robert Love
Why do only the Latin script when Nokia has a billion consumers? Typography is the bedrock of communication it can really connect people. 
— Bruno Maag
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
— Daniel Everett
Every month I do a webcast for 55,000 people, and it's a great tool, great communication vehicle.
— Terry J. Lundgren
The education process is moving beyond the traditional classroom/lecture setting. More and more teachers are seeking tools and techniques to engage their classes and enrich their lessons. Video calling is one of these tools, as it removes barriers to communication and lets students move beyond the boundaries of their classrooms.
— Tony Bates
Microsoft is committed to the ubiquity of the Skype experience - communication across every device and every platform will remain a primary focus.
— Tony Bates
Facebook is massive in scale and scope. Twitter is a public communication forum, but if I'm following you, you're not necessarily following me. LinkedIn is, simply, a professional network.
— Jeff Weiner
It is difficult to imagine how any behavior in the presence of another person can avoid being a communication of one's own view of the nature of one's relationship with that person and how it can fail to influence that person.
— Paul Watzlawick
The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
— Karl Lehmann
It's like there are all these languages available, especially in terms of image. Why confine yourself to only English? There's all these languages and possibilities and concepts to speak or communicate with.
— William Wiley
As soon as you judge communication a little more rigorously, there is a possibility that the message will not be democratized. I have to say what I believe to be right. I have to spread out the statement among all the means of expression available to us at present.
— Alexander Kluge
On occasion, I like to reread my grandfather's letters. While leafing through them, I'm saddened by what is being lost in modern communication. Soul-baring sentimentality isn't typically poured into text messages, tweets and emails. All too often, personal connections are brushed aside for the sake of convenience in a fast-paced world.
— Kristina McMorris
We intend to keep the lines of communication open with the Defense Department so we can help our border law enforcement agencies navigate the equipment application process.
— Henry Cuellar
I don't tweet. I prefer face-to-face communication and sometimes Instagram.
— Elizabeth Jagger
It's near impossible to always be right when you're innovating. It's easy to get emotionally invested in it, but you need to monitor its impact like a hawk and react if you don't like what you see. And if/when you pull it back, you want to do that communication with transparency and humility.
— Jeff Jordan
I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.
— Mary Szybist
You know, my dad wasn't a photographer or filmmaker by profession, but on Sundays, he would take pictures of me and my family or his pals horseback riding, and it was a means of communication and affection, a means of not being so dysfunctional with each other.
— Bruce Weber
You used to be able to just call people. You didn't have to be on someone's calendar to have a phone conversation. The telephone was an important and valuable domain of communication, both for casual, friendly chats and for professional exchanges of ideas and information. But no more.
— Dan Pallotta
It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.
— Dan Pallotta
Even though I was manically overachieving and involved in everything, I still never felt like I belonged. That's definitely affected my whole life and why I wanted to become an actor and tell people stories, because communication and feeling like you belong is such an integral part of our social fabric.
— Penelope Mitchell
Politics have been changed forever because of people. The Internet is one of the tools that has helped. And it isn't just politics. The new networked dynamics that are now possible with these new forms of communication are also changing the way people engage as consumers that demand more social value from corporations.
— Jeremy Heimans
My drawing, like that of most cartoonists, is intended first of all to be functional: to create believable space and communicate information. My strongest point in drawing has always been my ability to show characters' nonverbal communication through facial expression and posture.
— Jessica Abel
Language is memory and metaphor.
— Storm Jameson
Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring forth after their kind.
— Charles Fillmore
If listeners aren't carried away to Heaven, I'm failing.
— La Monte Young
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
— John Warnock
I have seen that technology has contributed to improved communication, that it's contributed to better health care, that it's contributed to better food supplies, that it has contributed to all the basic human needs.
— John Warnock
The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.
— Hidetoshi Nakata
My approach is so simple; every song I sing, every story I tell, every move I make, must move the audience to laughter, tears, or inspiration. Otherwise, why do it? It's the communication.
— John Davidson
Just open, honest communication is the best thing in the world.
— Brett Davern
I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people don't have.
— Shoshannah Stern
Mental communication without verbalization... all space is made up of waves and we are constantly sending and receiving messages from our brain.
— Tina Louise
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
— Stevie Smith
I work on OpenBSD fulltime, as the project leader. I set some directions, increase communication between the developers, and try to be involved in nearly every aspect of the base system.
— Theo de Raadt
I am oblique; I think that has to do with my own nature. I like trying to do things which work on many levels, because I think it is terribly important to give an audience a lot of things they might not get as well as those they will, so that finally the film does take on a texture and is not just simplistic communication.
— Alan J. Pakula
Through basic science literacy, people can understand the policy choices we need to be making. Scientists are not necessarily the greatest communicators, but science and communication is one of the fundamentals we need to address. People are interested.
— James Murdoch
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
— Faith Baldwin
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication.
— Rick Boucher
Communication is very important. And the arts do that, whether it's film or theater.
— Anne Archer
I'm interested in the murky areas where there are no clear answers - or sometimes multiple answers. It's here that I try to imagine patterns or codes to make sense of the unknowns that keep us up at night. I'm also interested in the invisible space between people in communication the space guided by translation and misinterpretation. 
— Taryn Simon
To devise an information processing system capable of getting along on its own - it must handle its own problems of programming, bookkeeping, communication and coordination with its users. It must appear to its users as a single, integrated personality.
— Cliff Shaw
Tim and Fritz Lang I loved working with. Not Hitchcock so much. There was no communication.
— Sylvia Sidney
When you stop talking, you've lost your customer. When you turn your back, you've lost her.
— Estee Lauder
But communication is two-sided - vital and profound communication makes demands also on those who are to receive it... demands in the sense of concentration, of genuine effort to receive what is being communicated.
— Roger Sessions
In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.
— Cherrie Moraga
I've always thought of writing as sort of active communication.
— Lily King
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.
— Sue Savage-Rumbaugh
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.
— Tony Conrad
Art must unquestionably have a social value; that is, as a potential means of communication it must be addressed, and in comprehensible terms, to the understanding of mankind.
— Rockwell Kent
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
— Bobby Unser
Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.
— Robert Griffin III
Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.
— Bob Feller
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
— Michael Jordan
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
— Vince Lombardi
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
— Billie Jean King
You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
— Michael Phelps
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
— Babe Ruth
There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.
— Mario Lopez
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.
— Casey Stengel
A good vacation for me is going to warm weather. Being able to go outside, in the sun, hit the beach, play outside sports. Being active outside. Going swimming, hanging by the pool, having a couple drinks, having a couple of your close buddies around, and just having a blast.
— Rob Gronkowski
Adversity causes some men to break others to break records. 
— William Arthur Ward
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
— Vince Lombardi
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
— Muhammad Ali
Sports teaches you to understand the meaning of a team. You need to be able to work with everybody you don't have to be their best friend. You can experience the fun of competition and driving toward a common goal without pushing to bond in some major way with each individual on a project. 
— Kathleen Kennedy
It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
— Apolo Ohno
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
— Babe Ruth
Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.
— Steven Van Zandt
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.
— Kobe Bryant
That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up you fight to the finish. 
— Louis Zamperini
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
— Mike Singletary
Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
— Earl Monroe
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
— Carl Lewis
Sports is the common denominator in the world that brings everyone together. If there's any one place in the world where there is equality, it is probably sports. That was something that didn't always exist. We've come a long way in sports. Why can't society use sports as a way to bring people together and create change?
— Stephen M. Ross
At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.
— Joyce Meyer
I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.
— Conor McGregor
To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
— P. G. Wodehouse
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
— Knute Rockne
The world of sports knows no religious, racial or political differences. Athletes, from whatever land they come, speak the same language. The lessons of competition are lessons for life.
— Robert Kennedy
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
— Herbert Hoover
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
— Vince Lombardi
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
— Rogers Hornsby
I think what endurance sports teach you is to stay dedicated, stay focused, and also to understand you're going to have ups and downs, but you need to keep running right through them.
— Kyrsten Sinema
We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time. 
— Vince Lombardi
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
— Bobby Knight
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
— Yogi Berra
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
— Mark Twain
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
— Dave Barry
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
— Hank Aaron
Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
— Bill Bradley
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
— Walt Whitman
Thanks to the competence, love of God, our country's security and stability, endowed wealth, integrated infrastructure and quality services, the U.A.E. turned into the world's renowned destination for tourism, investment and business management: the interface of choice for hosting major cultural events, artistic and sports, in the world.
— Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.
— Ian Botham
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
— Bob Lemon
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
— Bill Veeck
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
— Ted Williams
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
— Gerry Cooney
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
— Ben Hogan
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
— Frank Gifford
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
— Billie Jean King
I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
— Mike Tyson
Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
— Felix Dennis
Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone - the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether it's sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever.
— Zachary Levi
I never really paid attention to sports, which, coming from the mecca of football in Texas, is kind of odd. I played sports, but I was nerdy. Having a single mother, the pressure was on me to get good grades and a scholarship and go to college.
— Sarah Shahi
I live by 'Go big or go home.' That's with everything. It's like either commit and go for it or don't do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That's what I live by. That's how I like it.
— Paul Walker
I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.
— Peggy Fleming
I'm one of these people that likes adrenaline and new things, like extreme sports. It makes me feel alive.
— Gisele Bundchen
Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.
— George Matthew Adams
I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
— Michael Phelps
You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
— Brandi Chastain
I learned early in sports that to be effective - for a player to play the best he can play - is a matter of concentration and being unaware of distractions, positive or negative.
— Tom Landry
Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.
— Kurt Angle
If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
— Vince Lombardi
Sports play a very important role in consolidating the national strength, adding lustre to the country's prestige and honour, inspiring people with national dignity and pride, and imbuing the whole society with revolutionary mettle.
— Kim Jong-un
I've never met anybody who says they don't like the World Cup. If you're a soccer fan or not, everybody loves watching it, and I think it could be the same for other sports.
— Landon Donovan
Sports should not become routine. It should be about passion.
— Kapil Dev
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
— Bob Hope
I wish I had played team sports. I think every kid should. Teamwork builds character - teaches people about leadership and cooperation.
— Mo Rocca
But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
— LeBron James
Life wasn't easy growing up; it was frustrating. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily, everything would have come easily, and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
— Caitlyn Jenner
Life is about timing.
— Carl Lewis
In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.
— Althea Gibson
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
— Tiger Woods
I love eating it - grilled chicken, pasta, rice, and other foods that give me long term energy. Every once in a while, my sweet tooth gets the best of me and I have to snack on some candy. Beverage wise, I stick to sports drinks, water, milk, and juice.
— Derrick Rose
I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
— Wayne Gretzky
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
— Ernest Hemingway
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
— Geoffrey Canada
For many sports fans, the onset of fall only means one thing: It's football season!
— Marcus Samuelsson
When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.
— Dietrich Mateschitz
All of my free time is made up of motor sports endeavors, be them motorcycles or off-road racing or track days. I just love anything with an engine. That is one of my main loves. Obviously, my other well-known love is Kristen Bell.
— Dax Shepard
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
— Joe DiMaggio
Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
— Randeep Hooda
Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.
— Kapil Dev
I'm a football fan, a sports fan, a fan of competition.
— Matthew McConaughey
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
— Charles Barkley
Sports are a microcosm of society.
— Billie Jean King
The team has come along slow but fast.
— Casey Stengel
We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.
— Darell Hammond
I want to explore the world properly, to be able to write about and take pictures of all kinds of different cultures. Just be an explorer or adventurer. I also love extreme sports.
— Cara Delevingne
There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.
— Harvey Weinstein
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
— Barry Switzer
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
— Jesse Ventura
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
— Jim Bouton
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
— Paul Harvey
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
— Rogers Hornsby
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
— Will Rogers
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
— Ralph Baer
Regardless of the obstacles or hurdles that are ahead of you, regardless of the opponent, regardless of the odds, your goal and objective always is to win. I think that's part of sports.
— Grant Hill
I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
— Antoine Fuqua
I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.
— Temple Grandin
One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan.
— Hugh Jackman
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.
— Chris Hardwick
Trip Hawkins - and this was the early 1980s - was saying there's going to be a day when everyone has a computer and they're going to want to do more on it, including playing games. So he started up a company, EA Sports, and he was going to have three games, football, basketball and baseball. So I was the football game.
— John Madden
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
— Eddie Vedder
I've gotten to know a lot of great people here in all the different sports. It's fun. It's fun to get involved where you live. And this is where I live. I'm a registered voter here. I have my Wisconsin driver's license.
— Aaron Rodgers
I'm 19 now, and I go to The New School in New York, where I study Criminal Psychology. My first week of second semester was during Fashion Week when my first editorials in 'CR Fashion Book' and 'Sports Illustrated' came out. It was crazy!
— Gigi Hadid
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
— James Surowiecki
I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound.
— Diane Lane
If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
— Caitlyn Jenner
If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
— John Major
How does one control weight? By not overeating. How does one stay in shape? One plays sports. There are no magic pills here.
— Vladimir Putin
Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.
— Lindsey Vonn
I'm a pretty agile guy, especially being taller and having done martial arts from about the age of 13, but parkour is one of those sports that I wish I'd discovered sooner. When my nephew first showed me, I thought, 'Damn - I'm too old for this.'
— Paul Walker
Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.
— Kapil Dev