Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I've been spoiled rotten with the costumes I've worn.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Been
  • Spoiled
  • Worn

• 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

• I still sleep with my baby blanket.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Sleep
  • Baby
  • Blanket

• 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

• I like variety, which is frustrating. But I've always been picky. I was afraid Pirates would be too much like Twentieth Century, broad comedy. But my agent talked me into it. I was spoiled by the range of a repertory theater.

  

  Kevin Kline
  • Comedy
  • Variety
  • Pirate

• 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

• As for a spoiled life, no life is spoiled but one whose growth is arrested.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Growth
  • Spoiled

• 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

• If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.

  

  Charlie Sifford
  • Up
  • Good
  • Great

• Years of concentration solely on work and individual success meant that in his retirement [Lyndon Johnson] could find no solace in family, in recreation, in sports or in hobbies. It was almost as if the hole in his heart was so large that even the love of a family, without work, could not fill it.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Work
  • Family
  • Heart

• 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

• Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.

  

  Anita DeFrantz
  • Women
  • Change
  • Picture

• Through Biblical times, there have been great women warriors and now the sport is so populated that these are the women warriors that we have today in boxing, kickboxing, and MMA.

  

  Bonnie Canino
  • Boxing
  • Sport
  • Biblical

• The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

  

  George Plimpton
  • Book
  • Ball
  • Sport

• Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Death
  • Enough

• I never killed anyone with my tuba.

  

  Bill Barber
  • Killed
  • Tuba

• Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Sport
  • Spoiled
  • Blanket