Andre Courreges Quotes

“I transferred all my frustrations into a boundless love of sports. I climbed mountains, played soccer, Basque pelota, trained for distance running. I practiced team sports which is the best school to develop strength of character.

Andre Courreges

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• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Way
  • Sport
  • Maximum

• Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Great
  • Game
  • Sport

• I have several businesses that revolve around fighting: the training centres, the clothing line and all that stuff. I'll probably be involved in the sport in some way shape or form, and I'll continue to train and be active and do the things that I love to do.

  

  Randy Couture
  • Fighting
  • Training
  • Involved

• It was one of the greatest moments in sports for me.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Moments
  • Sports
  • Memories

• It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Sports
  • Sport
  • Top

• Modeling is a way for me to continue with my sport, the hours are flexible and you can earn good money through photographic modeling and the catwalk.

  

  Leryn Franco
  • Good
  • Money
  • Sport

• One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Time
  • Age

• Normally, racing drivers come from a long line of previous successful sports people.

  

  Lewis Hamilton
  • People
  • Long
  • Sports

• If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Life
  • Great
  • Father

• Cross Country: No half times, no time outs, no substitutions. It must be the only true sport.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • Time
  • Country
  • True

• Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Team
  • Sport
  • Personalities

• I had come across a few sports psychologists, and I had no time for nearly all of them. I just don't think they work in a team environment.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Team
  • Environment
  • Sport

• Everybody thinks this is a tough man's sport. This is not a tough man's sport. This is a thinking man's sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Hurt
  • Sport
  • Thinks

• Philosophy is called upon to compensate for the frustrations of politics and, more generally, of life itself.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Politics
  • Philosophy
  • Frustrations

• I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Art
  • Actor
  • Sport

• For most Americans, economic growth is a spectator sport.

  

  Paul Krugman
  • Americans
  • Sport
  • Economic growth

• I do not connect, at any level, with anyone who hunts animals for sport.

  

  Anthony Douglas Williams
  • Animals
  • Sport
  • Connect

• You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Education
  • Sport

• Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe.

  

  George Vaillant
  • Wonder
  • Creativity
  • Explanation

• when all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

  

  Galen Beckett
  • Pleasure
  • Making
  • Priorities

• That's great because I know as a teenager, I didn't relate to a TV series where all people do is cheerlead and drink sodas on the weekend. So I think it'll be great if it can be seen by a few people at least.

  

  Caroline Dhavernas
  • People
  • Great
  • Thinking

• Inevitably, anytime we are too vulnerable we feel the need to protect ourselves from further wounds. So we resort to sarcasm, cutting humor, criticism - anything that will keep from exposing the tenderness within. Each partner tends to wait on the initiative of the other for love, only to be disappointed but also confirmed as to the rightness of the accusations made.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Waiting
  • Cutting
  • Criticism

• “I transferred all my frustrations into a boundless love of sports. I climbed mountains, played soccer, Basque pelota, trained for distance running. I practiced team sports which is the best school to develop strength of character.

  

  Andre Courreges
  • Sport
  • Frustrations
  • Transferred