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

• The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Together
  • Team
  • Win

• 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

• Everyone in boxing probably makes out well except for the fighter. He's the only one that's on Skid Row most of the time; he's the only one that everybody just leaves when he loses his mind. He sometimes goes insane, he sometimes goes on the bottle, because it's an intensive pressure sport that allows people to just lose it.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Boxing
  • Sport
  • Fighter

• 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

• There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Invention
  • Obligation

• 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

• Mitch McConnell, 72, is second only to Henry Clay as the state'€™s most consequential public servant. McConnell's skills have been honed through five terms. He is, however - let us say the worst - not cuddly. National Review has said he has 'an owlish, tight-lipped public demeanor reminiscent of George Will.' Harsh. But true.

  

  George Will
  • Worst
  • Harsh
  • Notable

• Denise Mina is probably one of the most gifted writers out there, whether it's mystery or literary or whatever label you want to give it.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Want
  • You
  • Mystery

• When I was young and beautiful, I never appeared on the cover of a magazine.

  

  Simone Signoret
  • Young
  • Magazine
  • Appeared

• “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