“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.” WayStillsCountryStatesLastsSportsUnitedUnited StatesSawsSeeingOne ThingMissingChangedWesternMy WayLast TimeGreat SportsPristineHitchhikingOpen Road Author:Edward Ruscha
“Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.” DoneDreamKidsAbleGuySportsCareersToo MuchOne ThingChildhoodDadHandleThrillDreams Come TrueBoyhoodHull Author:Bobby Hull
“One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.” SportsSeeingOne ThingFansKeysBottomTicketsCubs Author:Joe Garagiola
“Women want to know what's going on, whether it's the guys in the huddle the guys on the couch. One thing that's cool that I've seen as I've grown older is that women now think it is cool to enjoy sports and to sit there and talk the talk and know what's going on.” ThinkingKnowsWantGuySportsEnjoyOne ThingCouchesWomen Want Author:Erin Andrews
“I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.” TryingBelieveNextSportsCan DoOne ThingFellowsAlways BelieveRespectfulParticipatingStop TryingBe Respectful Author:Bruce Bennett
“I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that.” ThinkingWayKindReasonPlaySportsOne ThingFansStyleTablesReason WhyAppreciatedAggressiveness Author:Latrell Sprewell
“For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.” ThinkingKnowsWellsPlayCoursesSportsOne Thing Author:Payne Stewart
“Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.” IfsMayStillsDifferentGamesSportsOne ThingBaseballBasesPraiseCoachesCirclesAbsurdPreparationBehaveRunnersHeadmasters Author:Barbara Holland
“That's one thing you learn in sports. You don't give up; you fight to the finish.” GivingCountryFightingSportsOne ThingGiving UpDon't Give Up Author:Louis Zamperini
“One thing with me, and every goal I've had - in the sport of swimming, my mother didn't know my goals. The only person that knew my goals were my coaches.” KnowsPersonsMotherSportsGoalOne ThingCoachesSwimming Author:Michael Phelps
“If there is one thing I learned by reading Epstein's "The Sports Gene" it is that world-class athletes are, by definition, abnormal: that is, the kind of person capable of competing at that level is necessarily very different from the rest of us physiologically. They are outliers.” IfsWorldKindPersonsDifferentReadingSportsLevelsClassOne ThingCapableAthleteDefinitionsGenesCompetingAbnormalWorld ClassOutliers Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.” PeopleWorldRealPainSufferingSportsOne ThingWorstSkillsGloryAppreciateMurderRingsFighterBoxingHeavyweights Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Why did God make tigers so good at catching prey, and at the same time make prey so good at getting away from tigers? You'd think that if God wanted one thing or the other to happen he'd have engineered it rather better. Maybe he enjoyed the spectator sport?” IfsThinkingHappensWantedSportsOne ThingEnjoyedGet AwayTigersPreySpectatorsCatching Author:Richard Dawkins
“The one thing that has gotten worse for sports media is access. We hardly get to see, talk to and most of all get to know the players and coaches anymore.” KnowsSportsPlayerOne ThingMediaAccessCoaches Author:J. A. Adande
“Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport.” SpiritualSportsOne ThingInstinctHuntingKillersOutletsSpiritual ExperienceKiller Instinct Author:Richard Lerner
“We don't sell wins or losses. The one thing you can't control in sports is which games you are going to win or which games you are going to lose. But what I could control was the experience the fans have.” GamesWinningSportsLosesLossOne ThingFansSells Author:Mark Cuban