“First of all you must understand that practising martial arts means studying a certain oriental philosophy of life, otherwise it's merely a vacuous sport devoid of any significance.” FirstsMeanArtPhilosophyCertainSportsStudyLife PhilosophyMartial ArtsSignificanceVacuous Author:William C. Brown
“I've done a lot of training in martial arts. I started out in warring tempo, I did sports jujitsu, and I've also practiced extreme martial arts.” ArtDoneSportsTrainingExtremesMartial ArtsTempo Author:Booboo Stewart
“I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.” FirstsArtSportsStudyHealthBuddhismTypeDoctorsChecksMartial ArtsAthletics Author:Frederick Lenz
“I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.” WayArtWantedFilmArtistGamesSportsPlayerSellsCoachesNflThe Love Of The Game Author:Steve Sabol
“New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place.. Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.” WorldArtHomeSportsChangeCitiesPoliticianDiversityExcitingDepthTheatreMuseumsFinestRichnessLivelySingapore Author:Goh Chok Tong
“Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.” ArtSportsWaterLosesDrinkingDrunkenness Author:Michael Moriarty
“Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.” ThinkingArtBigsAbleFightingStrongSportsDifferencesPowerfulBrainHugeDiedToleranceGutsMartial ArtsMmaDinosaursAnalogiesAdaptabilityCockroachesForward ThinkingMixed Martial Arts Author:Georges St-Pierre
“Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.” ShouldTryingChildrenArtEvilSportsCan DoToolsMathematicsCompetitionTwinsCopying Author:Tony Buzan
“For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society).” ArtSexSportsDemandMassEntertainmentBoredomTransformedSpectatorsInvolvementImmuneHerdsRelieved Author:Merold Westphal
“Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. The great difference between sport and art is that sport, like a sonnet, forces beauty within its own system. Art, on the other hand, cyclically destroys boundaries and breaks free.” KnowsGivingArtCharacterHandsOpportunityForceSportsDifferencesWhiteBreakPlayerPersonalityArt IsTestsShiningBonesBoundariesSonnetBeauty Within Author:Rita Mae Brown
“Tombs decked by the arts can scarcely represent death as a formidable enemy; we do not, indeed, like the ancients, carve sports and dances in the sarcophagus, but thought is diverted from the bier by works that tell of immortality, even from the altar of death.” ArtSportsEnemyImmortalityAltarsTombsFormidable Author:Madame de Stael
“No secret that I enjoy motor sports and cars in particular, building cars, building custom cars. Part of that scene. I love the flow of the cars and I love the art part of them. I love the sleekness and the uniqueness of each car that you can dream up.” ArtDreamSportsEnjoySecretCarBuildingParticularSceneFlowCustomsUniquenessMotor Author:James Hetfield
“When I am trying to understand the method of winning in the endgame with two bishops against the knight, chess is a science, when I admire a beautiful combination or study, then chess is art, and when I am complicating position in the approaching time trouble of my opponent, then chess is sport.” TryingArtTwoBeautifulWinningSportsStudyTroublePositionMethodChessAdmireCombinationOpponentsKnightsBishopsEndgame Author:Ashot Nadanian
“All the arts, music, the visual arts, acting and dancing arts, cooking arts, and I believe sports, will save the human race because they can leap over barriers, religions, leap over barriers of race, politics.” BelieveHumansArtI BelieveSportsActingRaceCookingDancingHuman RaceVisualsBarriersLeapVisual ArtArt Music Author:Pete Seeger
“What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.” PeopleMenWorldWayArtReasonSportsWhitePoorColorStandardsIntelligentExcellenceConservativeRadioProfessionBrilliantShakesAccentsWhite ManControversialEntryCommentaryEdgyTalk Radio Author:Nancy Giles
“Oh yeah, I mean every fighter has got be dedicated, learn how to sacrifice, know what the devotion is all about, make sure you're paying attention and studying your art.” KnowsMeanArtSportsAttentionStudySacrificeYeahDevotionFighterPay AttentionDedicated Author:Marvin Hagler
“I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.” ThinkingArtRealActorsSportsSacrificeNeededBraveryAttributesDedicationDefiniteParallelsBravery And Courage Author:Matt Smith
“I went to school to play sports, but I got involved in theatre in college kind of by mistake. I ended up taking an acting class almost just to get rid of an arts requirement, but I wound up in this wonderful acting class with this teacher named Alma Becker who really saved my life. I was just kind of this knucklehead kid from DC and I was in and out of trouble all of the time. I took a theatre class and she really discovered something in me and I absolutely fell in love with it.” KindArtPlayKidsSchoolSportsActingMistakeClassTeacherWonderfulTroubleCollegeInvolvedTheatreWoundsSavedRequirementsActing ClassesKnuckleheads Author:Jon Bernthal
“In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.” ThinkingArtCountrySometimesSportsCitiesPlayerTeamInvolvedOutcomesInteractionSports TeamPublic Art Author:Janet Echelman
“Everybody knows how awful the world is and what a terrible situation it is and each person distorts it in a certain way that enables him to get through. Some people distort it with religious things. Some people distort it with sports, with money, with love, with art, and they all have their own nonsense about what makes it meaningful, and all but nothing makes it meaningful. These things definitely serve a certain function, but in the end they all fail to give life meaning and everyone goes to his grave in a meaningless way.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayGivingPersonsArtEndsCertainSportsReligiousKnow HowFailingFunctionMeaningfulGravesAwfulMeaning Of LifeNonsenseMeaninglessLife Means Author:Woody Allen
“The things which can make life enjoyable remain the same. They are, now as before, reading, music, fine arts, travel, the enjoyment of nature, sports, fashion, social vanity (knightly orders, honorary offices, gatherings) and the intoxication of the senses.” ArtOrderReadingSocialSportsMusicFashionFineTravelOfficeSensesVanityEnjoymentEnjoy LifeGatheringEnjoyableFine ArtsIntoxicationHonoraryReading Music Author:Johan Huizinga
“Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.” PersonsArtMotivationalSportsSituationMastersTrainingWeaknessMartial ArtsMastery Author:Gichin Funakoshi
“I've always been interested in the sport even as a young kid. I liked the sport of martial arts because I loved anything that involved contact, conflict or collision.” ArtKidsYoungSportsInvolvedConflictArt IsContactMartial ArtsCollision Author:Brad Tavares
“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.” ArtWould BeActionFormSportsLifestyleOffensiveSkateboardingCategorizationSkateboarder Author:Tony Hawk
“I was a jock, hardcore sports all the way down the line, but I heard that if you auditioned for this arts school, you got time off school, and that sounded good to me.” IfsWayArtSchoolSportsLinesHeardArt SchoolHardcoreTime OffJocks Author:Jake Epstein
“Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football.” ArtWould BeSportsFootballNflMartial ArtsWarfareFencingNfl Football Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“It's a fine line of doing what's good for your life and what your parents want you to do, but also following your dreams. With my parents, when I was younger, I always had to do two things. If I was acting, I always had to do a sport or something on the arts side of things, along with that. That way, if one fell apart, I always had something else to fall back on.” IfsWayWantArtTwoDreamFallSportsParentSidesLinesActingFineFollowingYour DreamsTwo ThingsFollow Your DreamsFall BackFine Lines Author:Kaley Cuoco
“About 1998, when 'Wide World of Sports' and the 'Footy Show' came to an end for me, I couldn't type. When I started architecture, it was a very aesthetic, creative, an almost art process, where lettering and thick line were how you expressed yourself on the paper.” WorldArtEndsShowsSportsProcessLinesCreativeTypePaperWideArchitectureAestheticThickFooty Author:Max Walker
“In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayMeanArtFormCertainTurnsSportsEnjoyCan DoSeriousPoliceCookingSakeFranceOfficersPolice OfficerBasicsComplicationCuisineFrench Cooking Author:Julia Child