“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.” IfsWritingCareFeltSportsNaturalForgetHappenedSeaMinutesTypeComputerLowsSightSentencesSavedSolitarySmall ThingsOne WordBoilingFlotsam Book:Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir Source: Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir
“The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago.” ThinkingLongLightEyeSportsEmotionHappenedFansHorrorWorshipBlindCupsFixedScareLong Ago Author:Boris Becker
“Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.” KnowsFirstsWellsSportsCasesHappenedNeededToughRoundsIndianTournamentsErase Author:Amelie Mauresmo
“We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.” KnowsWayWantedCertainSportsHappenedUnderstoodArgumentYeahBest Things Author:Andy Van Slyke
“And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.” BelieveLooksRunningSportsHappenedBasesJust One Author:Carlton Fisk
“I'm going to try to enjoy the All-Star break, hope my players reflect on what happened the first half of the season, come back with a different attitude, try to find our solution on how to win it.” TryingFirstsDifferentWinningStarsSportsEnjoyHalfAttitudeBreakPlayerHappenedSolutionsSeasonsAll StarsDifferent Attitude Author:Don Baylor
“Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.” WorldYearsLongSeemsSportsAttentionHappenedHeardFootballLong TimeGolfSeriesIncrediblesBeing TrueTigersWorld SeriesPrecedence Author:Payne Stewart
“The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.” SportsCareersHappenedTragedyRuined Author:Rafael Palmeiro
“If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.” IfsLifeShouldSaidSportsHappenedFailureShould HaveAdversityGood ThingsComplainingBad ThingsWhy Me Author:Arthur Ashe
“It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.” IfsWellsIndividualSportsHappenedShotsOppositesBaseballGolfFingers Author:Albert Belle
“Every day as a kid, I went to the boxing gym. I knew boxing before I knew anything else. And I was once told if you show your child how to do something and you constantly push them, then eventually they'll become masters. They'll become a master of their craft. So that's probably what happened with me and the sport of boxing.” IfsChildrenShowsKidsSportsHappenedMastersOur ChildrenCraftsYour ChildrenBoxingGym Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“I think today's athletes generally are spoiled by what's happened to salaries, but I also think that golfers have maintained the best demeanor of any sport.” ThinkingTodaySportsHappenedAthleteSalaryGolfersSpoiledDemeanor Author:Arnold Palmer
“The best thing about Sachin Tendulkar is that he's completely rooted, down to earth, and a thorough gentleman. He's probably the best thing to have happened to Indian cricket and maybe Indian sport as a whole.” WholeEarthSportsHappenedIndianBest ThingsGentlemanRootedCricketThoroughDown To EarthTendulkar Author:Sania Mirza
“I think young people ought to seek that differential experience that is going to knock them off dead center. I was a typical American school boy. I happened to get straight A's and be pretty good in sports. But I had no great vision of what I could be. And I never had any yearning.” PeopleThinkingSchoolYoungSportsVisionBoysHappenedOughtYearningTypicalGreat Vision Author:James A. Michener
“When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.” PeopleAsksGamesWinningSportsLosesFourHappened Author:Tony Parker
“One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event, there's a senior or a junior from WAER broadcasting sports just the way we did, and just the way it happened a couple generations before us. That's a great legacy for the university and a great tradition that still continues to this day, and makes those of us who were a small part of it very very proud.” WayYearsStillsSportsGenerationsHappenedEventsProudCoupleTraditionUniversityLegacyThis DaySeniorJuniorsSmall PartsBroadcastingSporting EventsSyracuse Author:Mike Tirico
“It is the most powerful submission in the sport. It is a beautiful thing. You're holding them into you, their back is on you, and you are basically choking them gradually like a boa constrictor and once you've got them, the pressure goes on and they have to submit or they are going to stop breathing. It happened to me early in my career, and I panicked, and gave in, I tapped out too early. I learned a lot from that. I learned from it, learned how to do the move better, learned how to avoid it being done to me.” DoneBeautifulMovingSportsPowerfulCareersHappenedGoes OnPressureBreathingMost PowerfulSubmitBeautiful ThingsSubmissionChokeBeing Done Author:Conor McGregor
“Whitney Houston rear-ended a city bus with her sports car, but no one was hurt. She said she didn't know what happened. One minute she was concentrating on the big white line, and the next, boom!” KnowsSaidBigsNextSportsHurtLinesWhiteCitiesHappenedMinutesCarBusConcentratingOne MinuteHoustonWhitneySports CarsCity Bus Author:Jay Leno
“I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?"” IfsMenWayRealWould BeWantedBeautifulSportsAbilityWonderHappenedTeamBe GoodDramaticWowOlympicsMedalAthleticCoverageAtlantaArcheryAthletic Ability Author:Geena Davis