S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know, I've written a whole song in an hour.”
“Sporks are only used in the most dire situations.”
Source: Origin
“Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.”
“Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.”
Source: Bowen's Court
“Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.”
“Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.”
“Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.”
“Sport can be used for messaging, for example, making the connections between shin guards or a helmet that protects you, and protection in terms of HIV and AIDS. There has also been a very active program in Africa called 'Kick Polio out of Africa,' where soccer players have spoken out in terms of polio. There is also going to be a swim for malaria.”
“Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions”
“Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Sport can teach us how to set and achieve goals, solve problems, cope with stress, manage our emotions, refocus after mistakes, and build self-confidence.”
Source: Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything
“Sport carries on without deviation the mechanical tradition of furnishing relief and distraction to the worker after he has finished his work proper so that he is at no time independent of one technique or another. In sport the citizen of the technical society finds the same spirit, criteria, morality, actions and objectives in short, all the technical laws and customs which he encounters in office or factory.”
“Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.”
“Sport-das ist eine Sache. Aber sportlich das ist jemand, der die Spielregeln beachtet.”
Source: Alan and Naomi: Young Adult Literature
“Sport doesn't build character, it shows it.”
“Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.”
“Sport for me is about inspiring kids. Here's the rules, here's the play area, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. This is all about teaching kids how to approach life. If we're not playing sport to benefit kids, I'm not really sure why we play sport.”
“Sport fosters many things that are good; teamwork and leadership.”
“Sport has been called the last bastion of male domination. Unfortunately, there are others - Congress, for instance.”
Source: The Stronger Women Get, the More Men Love Football: Sexism and the American Culture of Sports
“Sport has long occupied a special place in the hearts of Australians, and today the nation welcomes a new champion to the pantheon. Cadel Evans, cyclist extraordinaire.”
“Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.”
“Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people.”
“Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. That is why it is so important that the FIFA World Cup will, for the first time ever, be hosted on the African continent in 2010. We feel privileged and humbled that South Africa has been given this singular honour of being the African host country.”
“Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations”
Source: Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations
“Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.”
“Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.”
“Sport industry is not women versus men. My biggest champions a lot of the times in my career have been those men. Not that women necessarily wouldn't, but if there are no women in the room and the door is locked, it takes a guy to unlock the door for you and let you in. We have to get better at working together in that regard, as opposed to feeling like we need to crash the door down. You don't need to bring out the ax; sometimes you can just knock. And sometimes guys will open the door for you, but for so many women who felt like they had to fight so hard, we forget that they may be allies.”
“Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.”
Source: Critical Studies
“Sport is a great equalizer that can build bridges, transcend borders and cultures, and render even the fiercest conflicts temporarily irrelevant.”
“Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.”
“Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.”
“Sport is a preserver of health.”
“Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.”
“Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older metaphor of farming (life as hard labor that is subject to weather and quirks of blind fate and may return no reward whatsoever and don't be surprised) is still in our blood.”
“Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.”
“Sport is a very important subject at school, that's why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn't want to fly?”
“Sport is a wonderful metaphor for life. Of all the sports that I played - skiing, baseball, fishing - there is no greater example than golf, because you're playing against yourself and nature.”
“Sport is about achievements. Art is to be touch and touch others in a personal level.”
“Sport is an essential element of education.”
“Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically.”
“Sport is an important part of the development of kids, and hence, it should be made a part of their curriculum.”
“Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.”
“Sport is and should remain a great school of life that supports young people in their personal development. It teaches respect for others and also for oneself.”
“Sport is cultural. What the star athlete does helps to define the culture. What the star athlete does on a Canadian team, especially if he or she is Canadian, helps define Canadian-ness.”
“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.”
“Sport is my passion but I have a way to go.”
“Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify plans at the last minute. Sport, like all life, is about taking risks.”
“Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess.”