“I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.” KindHomeSportsEnjoyBrotherHealthyMy FamilySpendingAll KindsBeachMy BrotherHanging OutSurfSpending Time Author:Samantha Stosur
“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.” MindKindMatterBodySportsViewsHealthBuddhismShapesNo Matter WhatPoint Of ViewYour BodyAthleticsDisharmony Author:Frederick Lenz
“I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport.” ThinkingMenNeedsMindKindSportsHe ManTraditionGlamourSkatingSparkle Author:Kristi Yamaguchi
“I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.” KindSchoolStuffSportsMiddleInvolvedDramaMy FriendsDancingTheatreThings To DoMiddle SchoolCool ThingsPlaying Sports Author:Kara Lindsay
“When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.” KindLawFightingSportsInterestEffortGoneTroubleStreetsFieldsCaughtStuckRoughBehaviourRugby Author:Daniel Cudmore
“I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingLooksKindHappensWinningSportsKnow HowCrazyDependsLosingCaughtCaught UpWin Or Lose Author:Mike Ditka
“In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.” WantTryingKindCountryAsksSportsToo MuchFansApproachSpain Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy
“Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It's those who learn to perform when they're tired that find success.” KindMatterStrongSportsNo Matter WhatTiredMotivational SportsWrestlingWrestlerGetting TiredMotivational Wrestling Author:Jay Robinson
“My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsShouldKindReasonSportsIssuesRiskTypePhilosophicalLibertarianArguingLoftyRationale Author:Jonathan Gottschall
“Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.” KindRunningSportsMistakeResponsibilitySeeingTeamEconomicConsequenceNegativeEnterpriseAcademicTaking ResponsibilitySetbackSports TeamNegative Consequences Author:Thomas Sowell
“We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.” PeopleKnowsMenWayWantGivingFirstsKindEndsPlayWholeNightGuyFunSportsChallengesPrideEgoGiving UpBeatsDefenseScoreComing OutEvery NightOffenseBack When Author:Allen Iverson
“It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.” NeedsLooksKindAgeSportsExampleFieldsHugeGapsVeteranAge Gap Author:Barry Zito
“I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsKindSportsCareersSeasonsMonstersDiminish Author:Brady Anderson
“It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.” PeopleKindJobsSportsDifficultCan DoDealsPeriodsGet Away Author:Brett Favre
“I trained and trained and went up against Kurt, then being a world champion in '94, and after that I did Tommy's tour and then my tour and all this stuff and just trying to deal with it all. And now, I've just kind of backed off a little.” WorldTryingKindLittlesStuffSportsDealsChampionWorld Champions Author:Elvis Stojko
“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
“When I put some Tabasco on things, and there's really nothing in Tabasco, it's not bad for you in any way, so that's kind of become my substitute. Now you got to get used to a hot mouth, but that's okay.” WayKindUsedSportsMouthsOkayHotSubstitutesTabasco Author:Mike Ditka
“It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.” PeopleFeelsKindMadeTodaySportsFeel Good Author:Steve Largent
“I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.” ThinkingKindEndsMatterCareSportsBabySticksCornersTake CareHockeyTouchingNhlCrossingsPowderIce HockeyGreat HockeyMotivational HockeyHockey Sticks Author:Wayne Gretzky
“I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.” KindYoungSportsBasketballFocusedAll KindsSoccerTennisHandball Author:Dirk Nowitzki
“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
“I've gotten to watch a lot of football games. Growing up, watching sports, watching people compete, whether it's my brothers or teammates. I grew up observing and taking it all in. It's kind of my attitude.” PeopleKindGamesSportsAttitudeWatchesGrowing UpGrowingFootballBrotherGrewGrew UpMy BrotherObservingTeammateMy AttitudeFootball GameWatching Sports Author:Eli Manning
“I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.” KindPlayFactsKidsAbleSportsGolfAll KindsSoccerTennisHockeySkating Author:Patrick Chan
“And so figure skating was a great vehicle for me to kind of be competitive at something, without having to be big.” KindBigsSportsFiguresVehicleSkatingFigure Skating Author:Scott Hamilton
“I started skating and I kind of liked it because I could run circles around the guys that wouldn't pick me to play baseball.” KindPlayRunningGuySportsPicksBaseballCirclesSkatingPick Me Author:Scott Hamilton
“Anytime you lose one fight in the UFC, you kind of have to feel like you are on the chopping block. There is so much competition in this sport.” FeelsKindFightingSportsLosesLike YouCompetitionBlockUfcChopping Author:Charlie Brenneman
“Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.” KindSportsPrejudiceDiscriminationOur Society Author:Jerry Reinsdorf
“Many sports, not just football, have kind of the macho meathead mentality where innovation is almost frowned upon.” KindSportsFootballInnovationMentalityMachoMeatheads Author:Lawrence Jackson
“I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.” IfsThinkingWayHumansKindPlayCertainSportsEmotionComedyTragedyStructureDepthGreekHeightHuman EmotionsGreek TragedyGood SportsSports Movie Author:Carla Gugino
“Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.” PeopleWayKindHas BeensAgeFormGamesSocialSportsEnjoyClassHip HopHipsAtmosphereHopsEthnicitySocial Class Author:LeCrae
“David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to say that he thinks I'm being overly generous. He points out that, for years, there used to be an "all-star challenge" on television, in which the best professional athletes from a variety of sports competed in a kind of makeshift decathlon.” ThinkingYearsKindBookUsedStarsSportsChallengesMemoriesTelevisionAthleteUsed To BeVarietyGenerousGenesAthleticsProfessional AthleteAll StarsDecathlon Author:Malcolm Gladwell
“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
“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.” WorldKindCountryMatterPlaySeemsTogetherGamesBeliefSportsPoorActivityDifficultyMeetingsGolfEndureSolveTensionGreat LoveOld World Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Well, a funny thing, there are three that I like all for the same reason, golf, fishing, and shooting, and I do because first, they take you into the fields. There is mild exercise, the kind that an older individual probably should have. And on top of it, it induces you to take at any one time 2 or 3 hours, if you can, where you are thinking of the bird or that ball or the wily trout. Now, to my mind it is a very healthful, beneficial kind of thing, and I do it whenever I get a chance, as you well know.” IfsThinkingKnowsShouldMindFirstsWellsKindReasonThreeIndividualSportsHoursChanceFieldsExerciseBirdShould HaveBallsGolfShootingFishingWhere You AreOne TimeBeneficialFunny ThingsTrout Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.” PeopleIfsLooksKindSportsSleepNumbersFootballChinaAll KindsChineseGiantsShoreAmbitious Author:Berti Vogts
“You feel as if you're not living a full life. Which, of course, is why - it's my theory about why so many people who are heavily into computers are also into extreme sports and S&M. It's because their bodies are crying out for some kind of action.” PeopleIfsFeelsKindBodyActionCoursesSportsCryTheoryComputerExtremesFull LifeExtreme Sports Author:Brian Eno
“I played baseball, and thats pretty much it. Basketball came late, this was, basketball was the sport that I tried to master, I kind of mastered baseball, so basketball was one of those things where I wanted to master this game, so thats why I probably play it the way I do.” WayKindPlayWantedGamesSportsMastersBasketballLateBaseball Author:Eric Williams
“I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.” TryingLooksKindPlaySportsPlayerPositionFootballAthleteFootball Player Author:Lou Holtz
“My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.” ThinkingKindLittlesHas BeensPlaySchoolSportsTalkingClassBoysMysteryBottomLogicalClueLittle BoysLinear Author:Anthony Hopkins
“I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general.” WantGivingKindSportsTermForeverDoorsEventsTvsTypeInvolvedInsightOlympicsGymnasticsJunkieBroadcastingGymnast Author:Jonathan Horton
“I've always been a reserved cat. When I play sports, there's people used to get mad at me because I didn't hang out and things like that. I've never been that kind of person. Nothing has changed in that regard. I've never been posse, and all that. I'm a quiet storm.” PeopleKindPersonsPlayUsedSportsChangedQuietCatRegardMadStormHanging OutReservedThings Have ChangedPosse Author:Bernie Mac
“Once you start carrying your own suitcase, paying your own bills, running your own show, you've done something to yourself that makes you one of those women men like to call 'a pal' and 'a good sport,' the kind of woman they tell their troubles to. But you've cut yourself off from the orchids and the diamond bracelets, except those you buy yourself.” MenKindDoneShowsRunningSportsCuttingTroubleBillsDiamondSuitcasesPalsBraceletOrchidsGood Sports Author:Sophie Tucker