Sports Quotes - Page 153

I just want to try to ignore the scrutiny and all the distractions and just play hard basketball and let the best come... Improving game by game and trying to improve my game is what I want to do.

We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

I literally tried every sport and was miserable. Soccer couldn't hold my attention. I couldn't figure skate. I'm afraid to swim. So I did dance for five years. It came a time where I was getting a little bit bored with it.

My heart lies in music and acting, however, my inspiration comes from adrenaline rush I get from sports... and life.

Playing the game was the easy part. The real work was in the preparation.

Don't blame, forgive, All healing is self-healing

Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions.

Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Overturning police cars is a super-intense workout. It’s probably the only sport I enjoy.

It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.

Surfing is like that. You are either vigorously cursing or else you are idiotically pleased with yourself.

Boxing is an all year round sport. You never know when they're going to call you, so you got to stay ready.

I am a sports enthusiast, and if given an opportunity, I want to be a sportsman, even today. I want to promote the sport that is indigenous to India. Kabaddi is a matter of national pride. Why can't cricket, hockey, football and kabaddi be given equal platforms and co-exist? I believe that can happen.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.

Downtown, one has less time. But there are in Europe much people who have the faith, in South America, too.

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.