“...let's talk about soccer scores. There are a few things that people all around the world need to admit to themselves. Trade restraints slow economic growth, the euro is not a reserve currency and scoreless sports ties are boring.” PeopleWorldNeedsSportsGrowthEconomicTradeBoringAround The WorldSoccerTiesScoreCurrencyReservesRestraintEconomic GrowthEuro Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“One of the reasons people love sports is because it's non-political. And to the degree that Donald Trump puts sports organizations like golf tournaments in difficult positions, they won't want anything to do with him, i think all of this is evidence that Donald Trump is finding it a lot harder to be a candidate than he probably anticipated.” PeopleThinkingWantLoveReasonPoliticalSportsDifficultPositionTrumpDegreesFindingsEvidenceOrganizationHarderGolfCandidatesTournamentsGolf TournamentsNon Political Author:Ari Fleischer
“Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to disappoint fans a few years later, if this is part of the process we have to go through to get the sport to the better place, obviously I'm here, I'm doing it.” PeopleIfsYearsHas BeensSportsProcessFansLegacyBetter PlaceDisappoint Author:Chris Froome
“The whole sexiness thing-I don't know if I'm comfortable with that. But it has helped the sport grow. I think it changes how people see women's athletics.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWholeGrowsSportsComfortableAthleticsSexiness Author:Jennie Finch
“People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.” PeopleMenBigsRunningSportsBlackFourTelevisionGoldHorseAdvertisingAfrican AmericanChampionBlack PeopleMedalEntertainersAthleticsGold MedalsDegradingTrack And FieldEndorsements Author:Jesse Owens
“Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantYearsWellsStatesSportsOpinionFansPositionReaderDearPrioritiesPostsSectionsColumnistsSports Fan Author:Michael Wilbon
“The people that hunt are the guys that really vehemently protect the environment. You find that people that live on ranches tend to want to keep it that way, and I've always loved that about the hunters that I've known. They eat what they kill, and they carry it out. They don't shoot for sport.” PeopleWayWantGuySportsKnownEnvironmentProtectHuntersHuntsProtect The Environment Author:Tim Allen
“I am a huge sports fan and spend a lot of my time away from work watching sports, going to sporting events, stuff like that. So it is a big thrill to see these people who I have so much respect for and to find out that they're all really fun, super-nice people. It's very exciting.” PeopleBigsFunStuffSportsNiceFansEventsHugeExcitingMy TimeThrillNice PeopleTime AwaySports FanSporting EventsWatching Sports Author:Will Forte
“It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.” PeopleWayTryingSportsActingCareersPercentEntertainmentStrideProfessional SportsSports Entertainment Author:John Cena
“I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.” PeopleIfsNeedsMatterPlayActorsSportsActingDirectorsBasketballGet BetterSurfingBetter Than YouPlaying Sports Author:Paul Walker
“Obviously you can look at things however you choose to and I'm not proud of some people in sports, but I don't really look at it as my calling to be out there setting an example. I just try to treat people the way the I want to be treated - with respect and some dignity.” PeopleWayWantTryingLooksSportsExampleProudCallingDignityTreatsSettingTreatedSettingsYou ChooseSetting An Example Author:Mark Martin
“When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.” PeopleBookIdeasSportsBehindsAthleteCoachingBiographies Author:Tony Dungy
“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
“Cycling is an activity which more and more young people are getting involved with, whether they are using their bikes to get to school or work, socially, or cycling as a sport. Cycling is cheap, it's quick, and it makes you look and feel great!” PeopleFeelsLooksSchoolYoungSportsInvolvedActivityBikeCycling Author:Adrian Bell
“I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.” PeopleTryingHelpingSportsAchieveCoachingHelping PeopleThings I Love Author:Robin Farina
“There are tons of ways women can get into the sport easly. I think it is not as intimidating as many people think it is.” PeopleThinkingWaySportsIntimidating Author:Robin Farina
“We need to put people in positions of authority in government, business, law, medicine, media, sports and entertainment who are filled with the laws of God so that we can bring those laws into effect.” PeopleNeedsGovernmentLawSportsEffectsMediaPositionAuthorityFilledMedicineEntertainment Author:Myles Munroe
“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
“I'm legitimately having more fun doing music, but at the same time I worked my whole life for baseball. If I had to pick, I would probably pick music. I just connect more with the fact that other people connect with that I'm doing so much. It's a much cooler thing than being good at sports.” PeopleIfsWholeFactsFunSportsPicksBaseballBe GoodWhole Life Author:Mike Stud
“People in New England think that the Red Sox won that series, three games to four.” PeopleThinkingThreeGamesSportsFourRedEnglandSeriesNew England Author:Carlton Fisk
“People think I'm into sports because I'm a man. But I'm not into sports. I like Gatorade, but that's about as far as it goes. By the way, you don't have to be sweaty and play basketball to enjoy Gatorade. You can just be a thirsty dude. Gatorade forgets about this demographic!” PeopleThinkingMenWayPlayHumorFunnySportsEnjoyForgetBasketballThirstyDemographicsGatorade Author:Mitch Hedberg
“There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.” PeopleThinkingBelieveSportsGrowing UpGrowingFiguresNeighborhoodIdolized Author:Carmelo Anthony
“The other day Aks and I went up to your ranch for a day's fishing. I cannot remember any day when we have had more fun on a stream. We had along with us three newspaper men and a few secret service people, many of whom had never seen a trout stream, so we did the thing up right by borrowing frying pans, bacon and corn meal from the wife of your rancher - and we cooked an outdoor meal for the crowd. It was really quite a day.” PeopleMenRememberThreeFunSportsSecretWifeCrowdsNewspapersMealsStreamsFishingCornBorrowingTroutFryingSecret ServiceRanchersFrying Pans Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“I think of going back to the sports field again, and let's take a baseball game. Well, you have cracked out a grounder and you put in your last ounce of energy and you just happen to make first base. But you don't stop there. First base is the beginning. Now you call on all your alertness, your skill, your energy - and you count on your teammates, you count on the people that are working with you. And the purpose of that getting on first base was to get you around to count a run.” PeopleThinkingFirstsWellsHappensRunningLastsPurposeGamesEnergySportsFieldsSkillsBaseballTeammateCrackedBaseball GamesAlertness Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower
“To me business is a sport. I love knowing that 24x7x365xforever I'm competing with people I don't know. To build my businesses. To come up with new ideas. To come up with better ideas. That motivates me.” PeopleKnowsIdeasSportsKnowingCome UpNew IdeasCompeting Author:Mark Cuban
“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
“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.” PeopleChildrenSchoolSportsRealizingCompanyTeamIndustryAspectOur ChildrenIncludingLogosSports TeamFood Industry Author:Anna Lappe
“I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.” PeopleIfsThinkingImportantAbleGamesWinningSportsCan DoBasketballOpponentsBasketball Is My Life Author:Dirk Nowitzki
“Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.” PeopleWantWould BeWantedYoungSportsBasketballConnectedBackgroundsSpotlight Author:Dirk Nowitzki
“I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.” PeopleMadeWantedFightingSportsWallMarkPhotographAbstractLooking BackInteriors Author:Idris Khan
“The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.” PeopleWayImportantSchoolStarsSportsWaterMediaPoliticianVisibleRealisticMovie StarExposureSports Stars Author:Crowder
“When you're good enough in your sport, you have the option to choose your sponsors. Sometimes you pass up a lot of money to support the people you like and the products you want to use but in the end it's worth it!” PeopleWantEndsSometimesEnoughUseSportsSupportProductsGood EnoughLots Of MoneyWorth ItSponsors Author:Travis Pastrana
“Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSeemsSportsBehindsKnow HowRiskBrokenBonesExcitementDesksTaking Risks Author:Travis Pastrana
“I think people in general that don't surf, have a fascination with it. Its definitely much more than a sport or activity, its a way of life. There is a culture that surrounds it and I think people are intrigued by that.” PeopleThinkingWayCultureSportsActivitySurroundFascinationSurfIntrigued Author:Tristan Prettyman
“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
“As long as I'm working in sport, enjoying it and getting to see some wonderful sporting events, I'm quite happy. I don't want to be really famous. I don't want people to stop me in the street. I want to just enjoy the work, work with lovely people, work on good quality sport and get to experience some more of these amazing moments.” PeopleWantLongMomentsSportsEnjoyQualityWonderfulStreetsEventsLovelyGood QualitySporting Events Author:Jill Douglas
“I don't know if other people have found it difficult relating to me, certainly that's not the feedback I've had. I don't think of myself particularly as a woman working in sport. I think of myself as a broadcaster, a journalist, and the right person for the job, regardless of whether I happen to be female or male.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsPersonsHappensJobsFoundSportsDifficultFemaleMalesJournalistFeedbackRight PersonBroadcasters Author:Jill Douglas
“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
“Nothing makes God more supreme and more central in worship than when a people are utterly persuaded that nothing - not money or prestige or leisure or family or job or health or sports or toys or friends - nothing is going to bring satisfaction to their sinful, guilty, aching hearts besides God.” PeopleHeartJobsSportsWorshipSatisfactionSupremeGuiltyLeisureToysPrestigeHeart Ache Author:John Piper
“When people in a country are being hurt, the issues are bigger than sport. Let's hope the right decision is made” PeopleMadeCountrySportsHurtDecisionIssuesBiggerRight DecisionBeing Hurt Author:Mark Webber
“If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.” PeopleIfsMenWorldImportantSportsForgetDyingStandingAnother WorldPeople Who Are Dying Author:William Law
“Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.” PeopleLooksImportantSelfSchoolBeliefLostSportsConsciousnessStrangeElementsAwfulProportionSignificanceNarcissismShynessSelf Consciousness Book:Broken Vessels: Essays Source: Broken Vessels: Essays
“I was reminded that when we lose and I strike out, a billion people in China don't care.” PeopleCareSportsLosesDon't CareChinaStrikesBillions Author:Reggie Jackson
“What's really hit me over the years is that you go to every race and see all the well-wishers, and you really feel like you are connected with people after all these years.” PeopleFeelsYearsWellsSportsRaceLike YouConnected Author:Bobby Rahal
“I've been on enough sports teams in my life to have experienced the magic of what can happen when a group of people care for and love each other.” PeopleEnoughHappensCareSportsMagicGroupsTeamAnd LoveLove Each OtherSports Team Author:Tim Ryan
“People aren't familiar with wheelchair sports. The only film crew in Athens for the Paralympics was the documentary crew.” PeopleFilmSportsFamiliarCrewDocumentariesAthensWheelchairsFilm Crew Author:Mark Zupan
“We ran three cars last year. Unfortunately, as time went on, we did have to let a few people go, which we regretted, but just because of the situation.” PeopleYearsLastsThreeSportsSituationCarRanLast Year Author:Bobby Rahal
“I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.” PeopleLastsGuySportsThat Guy Author:Ted Williams
“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