Sports Quotes - Page 157

I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.

My feet ain't got nothing to do with my nickname, but when folks get it in their heads that a feller's got big feet, soon the feet start looking big.

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.

I worked with my coach to develop some new spiral variations to make my program more interesting. Each one is different and you'll have to wait until January to see them.

I skate about 15 to 20 hours a week and also incorporate a lot of off-ice training. I take ballet and Pilates classes and lift weights with my physical therapist when I'm not on the ice.

Since the most important element of any concept is that its originating question be appropriately framed, any theory demanding an explanation for homosexuality is a problematic one because it maintains our existence as a category of deviance. I mean, no one is running around trying to figure out why some people like sports, for example.

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Until you play it, St. Andrews looks like the sort of real estate you couldn't give away.

Golf is played with the arms.

Thinking instead of acting is the number one golf disease.

And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.

It has been very good here, but the World Cup game was different. It had a different significance to it.

New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.

Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.

There's not too many guys that spend their whole career with one team and I think it's very fortunate and a blessing for me

In that match for Holland I asked for a big responsibility, I got it and I dealt with it. I played well, I scored goals and the team qualified for the Euro 2004 finals. It was a big night and an important moment for Holland.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

I'm always positive when it comes to professional bodybuilding, hell I'm Mr. Olympia for God's sake. If I'm number one in our sport and I have a negative attitude then our sport don't need me and I don't need our sport. There are problems and controversy in all sports. That's really unavoidable.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

There are a lot of guys who are respected but not liked.

There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.

When I was in the batter's box, I felt sorry for the pitcher.

There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.