Babe Didrikson Zaharias Quotes

I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • You
  • Sports
  • Won

• The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Rest

• It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Get

• Sports in Indonesia aren't being supported by the government. The rewards you get as a young player don't match the effort you put in. I want to be different from other athletes, if not better, and I want to make something good out of my profile and help the younger players have opportunities.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
  • Good
  • Different
  • Help

• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • Game
  • Sports

• The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Today
  • Game
  • Sports

• It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Music
  • Crazy

• 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.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Team

• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.

  

  Wendell Pierce
  • Good
  • Family
  • Sports

• Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Education

• I like sports, and swimming is my favorite. Doing physical exercises keeps one fit and healthy and helps one work more efficiently. I think we all need to strike a balance between work and relaxation. This can keep us energetic and help us do our job better.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Work
  • Job
  • Help

• Lots of people still don't think of golf as a sport.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • People
  • Think
  • Golf

• I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Up
  • Play
  • Sports

• We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fashion
  • Sports
  • Clothes

• We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Permanent
  • Learners

• I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Basketball

• I never worried about money, except that I knew that all I had to worry about was golf. As long as I could play, I was going to make money.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Long
  • Money
  • Worry

• If you can't eat it, shoot it, or wear it, don't bring it.

  

  James Mattis

• Globalisation has powered economic growth in developing countries such as China. Global logistics, low domestic production costs, and strong consumer demand have let the country develop strong export-based manufacturing, making the country the workshop of the world.

  

  Ma Jun
  • World
  • Country
  • Strong

• I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not.

  

  Dennis Muren
  • Done

• De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Why
  • Fighting
  • Down

• When I'm documenting, for example, a story on women in Afghanistan, I will do a huge amount of research and a lot of time on the ground just getting to know the women before I even start shooting.

  

  Lynsey Addario
  • Time
  • Women

• I played many sports, but when that golf bug hit me, it was permanent.

  

  Babe Didrikson Zaharias
  • Sports
  • Golf
  • Permanent