“The one thing I miss is hitchhiking. Now there's no more of that. When's the last time you saw a hitchhiker? It's not that I consider it a great sport, but it was my way of seeing the country. The open road, especially in the western United States, is still very pristine, but everything else around it has changed.” WayStillsCountryStatesLastsSportsUnitedUnited StatesSawsSeeingOne ThingMissingChangedWesternMy WayLast TimeGreat SportsPristineHitchhikingOpen Road Author:Edward Ruscha
“The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.” WayFeelsFirstsSaidStarsSportsSawsFirst TimeWoodsTigersSuperstar Author:Gary Player
“When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.” WellsChildrenPersonsStillsDoneSportsSawsImagineNewsIsolatedImagine ThatJakarta Author:Andrea Hirata
“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
“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
“We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.” PeopleKnowsWayLittlesRealSportsBehindsSawsBucksMicrophonesAnnouncers Author:Ozzie Smith
“I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.” ThinkingSportsSawsNeededWalkingTomsCaptainsRopeGalleryJordanCartsKites Author:Payne Stewart
“If someone from Germany or somewhere, who had no idea what baseball was, saw Kruk play, he'd wonder what the beer truck driver was doing playing first base.” IfsFirstsIdeasPlaySportsWonderSawsBaseballBeerNo IdeaGermanyDriversTruckTruck Driver Author:Andy Van Slyke
“I don't believe what I just saw!” BelieveSportsSawsDon't Believe Book:Jack Buck: ÒThat's a Winner!Ó Source: Jack Buck: ÒThat's a Winner!Ó
“The weightlifting competition I saw was the women's 63 kg class. I'm not sure whether this means the actual women weighed 63 kg or the weights they lifted weighed 63 kg. Or possibly the temperature in the weightlifting hall was 63 kg. There's no way to know for sure without finding out what a "kg" is, and my belief, as an American, is that if I have to start understanding the metric system, then the terrorists have won.” IfsKnowsWayMeanBeliefSportsUnderstandingClassSawsFindingsWeightCompetitionTerroristNot SureHallsTemperatureMetricsWeightliftingMetric System Author:Dave Barry
“I watched tapes and became a historian of the sport, and tried to combine certain elements and find things in the gym and saw what worked for me.” CertainSportsSawsElementsGymHistorianTape Author:Holt McCallany
“What I saw so clearly when I started climbing was adventure. Difficulty was only an ingredient. I never thought to wonder about grades, just as I never thought to wonder what Tarzan might bench press. I found the closer I moved to sport, the closer I felt to science - and the closer I moved to adventure, the closer I felt to greatness.” MightFoundFeltSportsWonderSawsGreatnessAdventureDifficultyMovedPressesGradesIngredientsClimbingBenches Author:Peter Croft
“When I was writing the script, I knew didn't want to make a sports movie. I was very clear that I wanted to make a sibling rivalry story. So when I was writing the script, the football was getting in the way of the drama. One day, I saw Michael Haneke's Funny Games, which is probably the most violent film I've ever seen - but the violence is off camera. When I finished watching the film, I said, 'Hey, that's what I have to do.' Haneke gave me this solution.” WayWantWritingSaidStoriesWantedFilmGamesSportsClearSawsViolenceFootballDramaOne DaySolutionsCamerasScriptsFinishedViolentHeySiblingRivalrySibling RivalrySports MovieFunny GameViolent Films Author:Carlos Cuaron