Sports Quotes - Page 168

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none.

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.

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

Ever since boyhood I've made a religion of keeping in shape by regular, conscientious exercise.

My own ambition in the ring had always been skillful boxing, speed and defense - on the order of Mike Gibbons.

The man who has allowed his body to deteriorate cuts a pitiful figure - chest collapsed, stomach protruding.

Fat is one of the chief enemies of the heart because it has to be plentifully supplied with blood and thus needlessly increases the pumping load that the heart must sustain.

I like to follow my favorite team and talk sports with my band or fans. You won't believe how many musicians are sports fans. We have so much time on tour that we need these outlets for relaxation.

Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It's fun, and nobody can get hurt.

For me, tennis is a sport. It's not a job, it's a sport.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

My body is a vehicle for the mechanics of my sport.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

I was a very shy and introverted person, and it was hard for me to talk to people and make relationships.

Often I visualize a quicker, like almost a ghost runner, ahead of me with a quicker stride. It's really crazy. In races, this always happens to me. I see the vision of a runner ahead of me, maybe just 15, 20 meters ahead of me, and the cadence of that runner, which is actually me in the future, is a little quicker, so if I'm going (his rhythm/breathing), then my ghost runner, the vision of me, ahead of me, like opening up and just going for it, is quicker .

I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

Managers don't have as much leverage as they used to have. We can't really be the boss.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.

I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

Even with the quality of players that we have, they're an extremely hard side to break down and once they get on top of you, you find it difficult to stem the flow of attacks.

I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.

I had three stages of knowing Wellington Mara. He was my boss for a long time and he was a father figure. And finally, as we got older, he was my friend.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.