Sports Quotes

• Knowledge comes from your instructors; wisdom comes from within.

  

  Dan Inosanto
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Within

• I like to think about music as a sport. But only in terms of golf, as far as the course being music and me being the golfer. So it's competitive but only with yourself. With the last one doing well, it made it a challenge to feel like I was improving in some way.

  

  Noah Benjamin Lennox Animal Collective
  • Thinking
  • Feels
  • Golf

• To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Game

• At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

  

  Nita Ambani
  • Children
  • School
  • Attention

• We've got our friends in the world of sports

  

  Leon Eric Brooks III Brooks & Dunn
  • Friends
  • Sports

• I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.

  

  Antoine Fuqua
  • Up
  • Money
  • Hustle

• I think it is fine to have sports divided into men's and women's, just as it is fine to say a fifteen-year-old is incapable of consenting to sex. But we should recognize these are social distinctions based on biology, and not categories foisted upon us by nature.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• I think sports makes for good drama because it has all the same ingredients as anything worth reading or listening to or watching. Conflict, desire, heartbreak - it's all there.

  

  Jay Baruchel
  • Good
  • Reading
  • Desire

• I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • Good
  • Sports
  • Stress

• I like a lot of sports. Especially football - it's my favourite sport. My uncle played football in Barcelona for nine years and played for Spain in three World Cups.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • World
  • Football
  • Uncle

• I was brought up to believe that it's family first. Of all the people my parents knew, the family was most important. You always turn to your family, and the family supports you. We do what we can to support our young and go and see the grandchildren if they're doing plays at school and their sports events.

  

  Mary Berry
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• The variety of training is a major selling point of triathlon. Different sports, different venues means it's always interesting, and you can always switch things round if the weather messes your plans up.

  

  Jonathan Brownlee
  • Up
  • Different
  • Interesting

• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  

  Zach Braff
  • School
  • Community
  • Dad

• Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit and there is nothing there. And you could hike to the top from another direction. How you get there is the important part. It's the same with surfing.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Important
  • Surfing
  • Climbing

• I love that men like to look at women, that they love sports, that they need to know the inner workings of mechanical objects. I love the whole makeup of men - that they never mature and are always just boys.

  

  Krista Allen
  • Men
  • Women
  • Makeup

• You can make lots of mistakes, but if you give children avenues for creativity and joy, they will have resources to carry them through. For example, if cooking together, reading, listening to music, coloring, participating in sports, or taking a walk in the woods are paired with pleasure and closeness, throughout life doing these things will kindle old feelings of happiness an/or comfort.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Life
  • Music
  • Children

• When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Bad
  • High

• I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Thinking
  • Long
  • Remember

• I judge the jobs I've had in this business by the places they took me, and by that standard, there simply has been nothing to match 'The National Sports Daily.'

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • Business
  • Judge
  • Daily

• I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

  

  Jim Thorpe
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Race

• Banning sports is a ludicrous proposition.

  

  Mary Pilon
  • Sports

• I'm not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.

  

  Charlie Kaufman
  • Life
  • Live
  • Sports

• I wasn't good at sports and I needed a way to make girls like me.

  

  Johnny Rzeznik Goo Goo Dolls
  • Way
  • Sports
  • Girls

• Even as a little kid, I was fascinated by newspapers and magazines. They were my TV. I'd be the first one up to grab the morning paper, mainly to look at the sports pictures, the war pictures.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Up
  • War
  • Morning

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