“I know thousands of German's who are totally different from me, so we're not alike, we're not the same.” KnowsDifferentSports Author:Bernhard Langer
“It's totally different from last year because I came in with good shape with no health worries so it was about going out there and running well and enjoying it.” YearsWellsDifferentRunningLastsSportsEnjoyWorryShapesLast YearGoing Out Author:Paula Radcliffe
“I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.” DifferentSportsChallengesWalksGrowing UpGrowingShoesDifferent Things Author:Emily Bett Rickards
“The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.” IfsThinkingWorldWayLooksDifferentLightUsedSportsInterestingFieldsThis WorldChangedCallingHundredIncrediblesAthleteEvolveTimingOlympicsChampionshipRefereeFencing Author:Mariel Zagunis
“I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight. We're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.” PeopleDifferentFightingSportsPrideCapableExcitingWrestlingStanding OutUfcKickboxing Author:Anthony Pettis
“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.” MindDifferentStatesSpiritualSportsAchieveMusicianPerformancesInstrumentsPlanesInternalsMotivational SportsGreat MusicGreat MusicianGreat Performance Author:Arnold Palmer
“Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and for others, they run for completely different benefits. But it is not like that with sport. We need to eat, we need to rest, but also we need to run.” PeopleNeedsDifferentRunningSportsExerciseBenefitsDoctorsWeight Author:Haile Gebrselassie
“I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.” PeopleThinkingWayDifferentEnoughBodyRunningSportsWeekEasierTrainingWeightTrainYour BodyCoreBoredDifferent WaysTennisMusclesGymSwimmingLiftingCyclingCardioPlaying SportsCardiovascular ExerciseLifting Weights Author:Arjun Rampal
“There are lots of positives to come out of playing all sports, not just football. Team games can offer you different life skills than an individual sport can. Football improves your time management - you have to be places on time and disciplined in terms of training.” DifferentGamesIndividualSportsTermTeamFootballOffersSkillsTrainingManagementTime ManagementFootball TeamDifferent LifeLife Skills Author:Hope Powell
“First of all I have to ask myself what am I trying to say and who am I trying to tell the story to. So if it's just 300 words going in the Independent it's very much where, what, who and when - fantastic. If there's a little bit more scope, if I've been given 1500 words by the sports editor, and I can have a little bit of fun, then I need to maybe entertain, include some different stuff.” IfsNeedsTryingFirstsLittlesI CanDifferentStoriesAsksGivenFunStuffBitsSportsLittle BitIndependentFantasticEditorsScope Author:Steve Bunce
“It has changed, quite a lot. It is very different now, there are quicker men, they are taller, stronger, have great stamina. The balls have also become faster. Tennis has now become a power sport. There is more depth in the game, as well, there are many more players than there used to be. The entire character of the game has changed.” MenWellsDifferentCharacterUsedGamesSportsPlayerChangedBallsStrongerDepthUsed To BeFasterTennisStamina Author:Bjorn Borg
“You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.” KnowsLooksBookDifferentCharacterWantedFacesSportsRoomsSawsDucksBubbaDifferent FacesFunny Book Author:Bubba Smith
“I move around and play different golf courses. I just enjoy it.” DifferentPlayMovingCoursesSportsEnjoyGolfGolf Course Author:Darrell Royal
“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
“He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.” IfsMenWantHas BeensDifferentDoneJobsNamesGivenSportsSituationToughAskingAlabamaTough Situations Author:Don Shula
“Just a whole different style, just a whole different way of going about an audience and a way about skating. And they are so brilliant in their own way, which is great, and that's what Brian was saying; is the styles are different, and it's the whole mentality.” WayDifferentWholeSportsAudienceStyleBrilliantDifferent WaysMentalitySkatingBrianDifferent StylesDifferent Mentality Author:Elvis Stojko
“It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.” WayDifferentWholeFactsGamesSportsLevelsWonderfulSpecialFootballDifferent Levels Author:Frank Gifford
“Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?” KnowsMenYearsWellsLittlesI CanDifferentBigsBitsSportsFiveFourLittle BitBreatheShouldersFive YearsLoad Author:Latrell Sprewell
“It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.” PeopleDifferentPhilosophyHappensSportsPresidentDifferencesBobCeo Author:Rick Pitino
“The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.” DifferentIndividualSportsTeamModernVery GoodAthleteCorporationsDifferent ThingsTeam Work Author:LeBron James
“I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.” ThinkingDifferentSportsAttentionLessonsSpotlightPositive Things Author:Kristopher Belman
“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
“I have the disadvantage of not being sociable. Wall Street men are fond of company and sport. A man makes one hundred thousand dollars there and immediately buys a yacht, begins to race fast horses, and becomes a sport generally. My tastes lie in a different direction. When business hours are over I go home and spend the remainder of the day with my wife, my children, and books of my library. Every man has natural inclinations of his own. Mine are domestic. They are not calculated to make me particularly popular in Wall Street, and I cannot help that.” MenChildrenBookDifferentHelpingHomeLyingSportsHoursNaturalRaceCompanyWifeStreetsMinesWallTasteThousandHundredHorseDollarsLibraryMy WifeEvery ManMy ChildrenInclinationDisadvantagesDifferent DirectionsYachtSociable Author:Jay Gould
“Like all sports fans, tennis junkies are not satisfied with simply following the current crop of players and admiring their accomplishments. They seemingly always need to compare players of different eras and designate one of them as the greatest player of all time.” NeedsDifferentSportsPlayerFansCurrentsFollowingSatisfiedAll TimeErasCompareAccomplishmentTennisCropsJunkieAdmiringSports FanDifferent Eras Author:Dave McPherson
“The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.” DifferentSportsSoccerAuras Author:Dave Checketts
“Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart.” DifferentAmericaSportsFiguresFemaleMalesSkatingFigure SkatingSweetheart Author:Scott Hamilton
“Sport is one of the few spaces where people can learn about different cultures in a spirit of trust and friendship.” PeopleDifferentSpiritCultureSportsSpaceDifferent CulturesTrust And Friendship Author:Richard Attias
“Everyone should get more involved in exercising, not just for the health benefits, but for the social side too. There are so many different aspects in your life where sport can help. Even if you only go to a class at a local pool, you'll feel the benefits.” IfsFeelsShouldDifferentHelpingSocialSportsSidesClassInvolvedExerciseBenefitsAspectLocalsPoolHealth Benefits Author:Jazmin Carlin
“Some people are so talented and yet they don't even know it. There are so many different aspects to sport and how you can get involved. You might surprise yourself with what you can achieve, so give it go and see what you can do!” PeopleKnowsGivingDifferentMightSportsCan DoAchieveInvolvedAspectSurpriseGet Involved Author:Jazmin Carlin
“I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.” WantIdeasDifferentWholeGuyGamesSportsWatchesFootballStoresNo IdeaShoppingWant SomethingFootball Game Author:Ashton Kutcher
“I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.” PeopleIfsWellsDifferentFoundGamesSportsEnjoyHalfWatchesViolenceTeamFieldsFootballThousandQuietIntellectualEmptyBaseballBallsExcitingAppealsParksComparisonAfternoonAestheticStadiumsBounceTuesdayFootball GameSports TeamOne Sided Author:Bowie Kuhn
“I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.” WayFeelsStillsDifferentKidsFacesSportsParentChallengesShareLessonsLettersBaseballImpactIncrediblesFeel GoodDisability Author:Jim Abbott
“I think the sport of cycling is different then racing. The sport is just about being healthy and giving yourself an outlet so it's a easy sport to do and I think there are more and more women cycling everyday.” ThinkingGivingDifferentEasySportsHealthyEverydayRacingOutletsCyclingGiving Yourself Author:Robin Farina
“Everyday on the bike is a different day. Just when you think your on top, you find yourself towards the back of the pack. It is probably the hardest sport I ever done it continues to be challenging and different.” ThinkingDifferentDoneSportsChallengesEverydayHardestFinding YourselfPacksBikeDifferent Day Author:Robin Farina
“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
“Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.” PeopleDifferentAbleFacesSportsMountainBiggerBlindTechniqueIceDevelopingClimbingGreat SportsSnowyBlind PeopleSnowy Mountains Author:Erik Weihenmayer
“I feel like a lot of people look at pop music with a very formulaic perspective in numbers and patterns, but an outsider would think that the process is very natural. It is, but there are a lot of times where people treat it like a sport - there are tricks you can pull, different combinations that make something better. I don't really think I approach it that way, but I definitely have a love for the science that is pop song writing.” PeopleThinkingWayFeelsWritingLooksDifferentSongSportsProcessNaturalNumbersPerspectiveApproachTreatsPatternsPopsTricksCombinationOutsidersSomething BetterPop MusicPop Song Author:Halsey
“My kids used to do things to aggravate me, too. I'd take them to a game, and they'd want to come home with a different player.” WantDifferentHomeKidsUsedGamesSportsPlayerComing Home Author:Bob Uecker
“Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.” DifferentSportsEventsShapesAthleteSizeTrackPocketsCall MeSmallestRocketsAthleticsGreat Sports Author:Jenny Meadows
“When I was working on the Olympic cookbook it was amazing to discover how different athletes need different types of diets. Everybody thinks that an athlete has to eat lots of carbohydrates, however some athletes don't need that. Some sports such as sprinting are explosive so you need a diet that will give you the energy for that moment.” ThinkingNeedsGivingDifferentMomentsEnergySportsTypeAthleteDietsThat MomentExplosivesCookbookCarbohydrates Author:William Katt
“Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.” WorldDifferentMightSportsNormalInjuryUps & DownsNormal LifeTop Of The World Author:Tobin Heath
“The best part of being a pro is being able to travel around the world. I have met so many incredible people and experienced different cultures all through sport.” PeopleWorldDifferentAbleCultureSportsMetsIncrediblesAround The WorldDifferent Cultures Author:Kim Smith
“The two sports are as different as Ping-Pong and rugby. In boxing, you don’t know what’s going to happen. In wrestling, it’s already prearranged. But the thing I didn’t know about wrestling is that you really get hurt. Because, you know, you’re wrestling in front of a live audience, and you end up doing things like jumps or slams, and 40 percent of the time you don’t land right.” KnowsTwoDifferentEndsHappensSportsHurtAudienceLandFrontsPercentBoxingWrestlingRugbySlamPingPing Pong Author:Mickey Rourke
“There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different.” DifferentSportsAspectBoringTunnel Vision Author:Wolfgang Gullich
“If I wasn't active and involved in different sports and just moving around, I wouldn't have even known that I had the potential to become an Olympian.” IfsDifferentMovingSportsKnownInvolvedActiveOlympian Author:Allyson Felix
“A lot of people think that you have to specialize in one sport from an early age in order to turn pro. Most of my teammates played a lot of different sports when we were kids. I liked to golf, water ski and play baseball. That helped me develop other aspects of my game and made me WANT to be on the ice even more once hockey season started.” PeopleThinkingWantMadeDifferentPlayKidsAgeOrderTurnsGamesSportsWaterAspectBaseballSeasonsGolfIceHockeyTeammateSkis Author:Pat LaFontaine
“The competition is a big part of it [racing] - the passion you have for the sport and the knowledge you have. You're not just going to wake up one day and say, " think I'll do something different." This is what I've done my whole life. My competitive nature and my passion for the sport, those are the things that keep you wanting to do better.” ThinkingDifferentDoneWholeBigsPassionSportsOne DayWake UpCompetitionWhole LifeRacingMy Passion Author:Bobby Labonte
“Growing up in the sport, I've been able to separate what happens on the track with what happens away from the track. That track is totally different. I'm not the same person when I put that helmet one.” PersonsDifferentHappensAbleSportsGrowing UpGrowingTrackHelmet Author:Trevor Bayne
“My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half. I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn't like. They didn't push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.” DifferentKidsAgeOrderCultureSportsParentWaterHalfActivityUnderstoodImportanceFortunateExposingSkisSkiingDifferent Cultures Author:Benoit Lecomte