“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.” IfsKnowsYearsMindBelieveLongDoneGamesSportsLinesFocusReadyHugeHealthyAchievementTrainingPreparationConsistentBelieve In MeOf My Mind Author:Anthony Calvillo
“Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.” Has BeensEnoughTurnsSportsLinesMemoriesWonderfulSeaRiversCaughtFishesBoatLakesFishingGood EnoughRollingThrillTreasured Author:Curt Gowdy
“George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.” WarSportsLinesGreatnessMurderInternationalBreathingShootingThinkerMinus Book:Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents Source: Sphere of Influence: Writings on Cricket and Its Discontents
“We all admire the courageous person and quite often consider the individual who lacks courage, a coward. However, that is not how Earl Nightingale saw it. He said the opposite of courage was not cowardness, it was conformity. The next time you are encouraged to fall into line, to be a sport and everything in you says no - be courageous and go your own way. There is no compensation in conformity.” WayPersonsSaidFallNextIndividualSportsLinesSawsOppositesAdmireCourageousCowardConformityNext TimeCompensationBe CourageousNightingales Author:Bob Proctor
“But when I saw the cursive grace of Guido Rahr's fly line writing prayers I couldn't read to the river gods of Outer Mongolia, I knew my name was written there too. Fly fishing was going to be my version of my father's sport, my nod to my Scottish ancestors and to my self, and to the fish crazed part of America I had claimed as my own.” WritingSelfAmericaFatherNamesSportsLinesMy OwnPrayerSawsGraceWrittenSeaRiversFishesVersionsBoatLakesFishingAncestorScottishFly FishingMongoliaCursiveGuidos Author:Jessica Maxwell
“All I can tell you is I played with Johnny Mitchell. Johnny Mitchell was one of the greatest athletic talents I ever played with, but I could never trust him. When the game was on the line and he was supposed to run an out route at 10 yards, he would run an in route at eight and slide to the outside and scream to me that he was open. But it was how he got open that really made me uncomfortable in trusting him.” MadeI CanRunningGamesSportsLinesTalentEightUncomfortableScreamYardsRoutesAthleticSlidesNever TrustTrusting Him Author:Boomer Esiason
“Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line-in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business and government.” IfsTryingReasonGovernmentPoliticalNightForceSportsLinesMoralMoralityStandardsAreasFlowEntertainmentArmed ForcesSports Entertainment Author:Margaret Halsey
“I love how my sport reaches out to people with the music and story lines, the glory of standing up for three or four minutes of tough, arduous, gravity-defying skating and all the stuff that goes with it.” PeopleStoriesThreeStuffSportsLinesFourMinutesGloryToughStandingReach OutGravitySkatingDefying Author:Kurt Browning
“Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.” CountryProblemBigsEasySportsLinesIndustryCreditVulnerableGamblingTargetOther CountriesFootballerSyndicate Author:Gordon Taylor
“In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line. In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! I hope I'll be safe at home!” IfsLongUseHomeSportsLinesKnownEnemyFieldsObjectsFootballWallSafeBaseballDefenseHolesBombsSpiteTargetMarchTerritoryTroopsHittingBulletsAssaultAccuracyQuarterbackReceiverShotgunsBlitz Author:George Carlin
“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
“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
“We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.” SportsLinesClearDrawsCookingPreservesEtcSanitySteersImportsSundanceProfessional SportsPbs Author:Hank Stuever
“A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.” PeopleAsksEasySportsLinesPlayerSpecialTablesRestaurantsSpoiledEasy To GetProfessional Sports Author:Johnny Damon