Making History In Sports Quotes

You see history in the making and that is definitely the highlight. You get to meet these amazing sportsmen and women, and see them develop as individuals. You get to meet them when they're first coming into their sport. You watch them develop and you build up relationships with them. ~ Jill Douglas

Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports. ~ Boomer Esiason

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. ~ Oscar Wilde

The rest isn't history...the rest is making history. ~ Richie Norton

The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo. ~ Ronnie Lott

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster. ~ J.J. Abrams

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school. ~ Ed O'Neill

I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history. ~ Steven Johnson

Making a history requires character; making an admirable history requires quality! ~ W.O. Makora

We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. ~ Lorrie Fair

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. ~ Jerry West

We know that we are close to making history. ~ Lionel Messi

Stop making excuses and start making history. ~ A.D. Posey

It's no longer history in the making.
It's our story we are making. ~ Natasha Tsakos

I enjoyed being involved in team sports and making close friendships. ~ Brian McBride

There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. ~ Rio Ferdinand

The way you 'take history' is also a way of 'making history.' ~ Erik Erikson

A soft moan escapes me, making him smile even more. He's too good at this. ~ Collette West

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion. ~ Jean-Claude Killy

I had serious training of painting styles from different historical periods ... But to have all this training is not enough to be an artist. You have to add a new page to history; otherwise you are not making a contribution. But making history is not easy. ~ Liu Dan

I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making. ~ Asif Kapadia

The main thing is to make history not to write it ~ Otto Von Bismarck

We are a day away from making history, and a history towards the breaking of tommorrow. ~ Anthony Liccione

Sometimes your passion must go up in flames before you can go down in history. ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best. ~ Daniel Tosh

I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. ~ Bill Walton

I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you. ~ Billie Jean King

I don't know the history of my sport. I'm not like those people who know everything. ~ Usain Bolt

Television is making sports universal; for the same reason, big-time soccer is growing more popular in the United States. ~ George Vecsey

Parents are told to turn off the TV and restrict video game time, but we hear little about what the kids should do physically during their non-electronic time. The usual suggestion is organized sports. But consider this: The obesity epidemic coincides with the greatest increase in organized children's sports in history. ~ Richard Louv

I think that David Stern is probably the greatest commissioner that any sport has ever had in the history of this country. ~ Bill Russell

As we struggle to overcome our troubles, we are making history and fulling our destiny. Keep pressing! ~ T. B. Joshua

History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. ~ John Eliot

There is nothing new in Egypt. Egyptians are making history as usual. ~ Silvio Berlusconi

I play with a fear of letting my team down. That's what motivates me. ~ Jonny Wilkinson

She allowed history to leave her without trying to hold it back, the way children allow a grand parade to pass, holding it in their memory, making it an unforgettable thing, making it their own ~ Salman Rushdie

Big History studies the history of everything, offering a way of making sense of our world and our role within it. ~ David Christian

I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history. ~ Mark Teixeira

There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family. ~ Kristopher Belman

To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren't very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience. ~ Mark Emmert

It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two. ~ Major Owens

If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes. ~ Agnes Repplier

Seldom aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of their own lives and the course of world history, ordinary people do not usually know what this connection means for the kind of people they are becoming and for the kind of history-making in which they might take part. ~ C. Wright Mills

Roll up your sleeves, set your mind to making history, and wage such a fight for liberty that the whole world will respect our sex. ~ Carrie Chapman Catt

Sports are basically our way of feeling sorry for ourselves. Most men can't become athletes. We're watching guys who actually made it. We see them dunking and making touchdowns. Then we think about ourselves when we were younger. ~ Kevin Hart

I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports. ~ Ted Sarandos

You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that. ~ Murray Mexted

Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates. ~ Andrea Dworkin

I love sports cars and want a Mercedes of an MG. ~ Katie Price

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do. ~ Edwin Land

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that. ~ Boris Becker

The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. ~ Bryant Gumbel

I am simply the very best sports entertainer ~ Shawn Michaels

If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books. ~ Matshona Dhliwayo

But whenever history is in the making, there's some kind of intangible feeling. ~ Krist Novoselic

I was going to design sports cars, but my father came to my college to visit me. At the time he was making a picture in Sweden and he took me there with him. I got to see Ingmar Bergman's company and I thought, 'Gee, filmmaking is a lot more fun than sports cars,' so I decided to follow him and go into acting. ~ James Cromwell

I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is. ~ Bud Grant

The last few years I became a lot more into sports. Growing up, the sports I liked were independent sports, like skateboarding. I was really into skateboarding, and not necessarily team televised sports. ~ Mark Hoppus

She probably thought I was making a dumb joke, but sometimes history sounded like a dumb joke. History was either a dumb joke or a cruel joke. ~ Alan DeNiro

Misty Copeland is making history. During American Ballet Theatre's current season at the Metropolitan Opera House, Copeland will alight on that storied Lincoln Center stage, making her New York debut as the Swan Queen in the iconic masterpiece Swan Lake - a crowning achievement for any dancer, regardless of the color of her skin. ~ Heather Watts

We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports. ~ Claudio Reyna

Boston is really a small town, and the pro sports here are almost like a college sport. ~ Stephen Pagliuca

Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.' ~ Ronda Rousey

If you think it makes a difference if I have ten thousand sports cars, ten million girlfriends and lead a very flashy life ... I don't think you should work with any teacher because you don't know what it is all about yet. ~ Frederick Lenz

I'm totally sports-oriented; I relate a lot of my career and everything to sports. ~ Bruce Dern

I would like to do a sports movie. ~ Sean Durkin

There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' ~ Arthur Ashe

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

I'm so sick and tired of people in the media telling us that because of the war, sports aren't important. Fans need sports. We'd have only crime and war to watch on TV if not for sports. ~ Charles Barkley

I always wanted to create a collection inspired by sports. I never played sports, maybe that's why it intrigues me. ~ Alexander Wang

We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan. ~ Alastair Campbell

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported. ~ Novak Djokovic

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad. ~ Martin McGuinness

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go ~ Jens Lehmann

But I can tell you this: that I am deeply proud of Rebecca. That she made a split-second decision to save the life of her son, turning the wheel of her vehicle so that her side of it would be impacted by an oncoming car instead of his. She gave her life in the exercise of the greatest gift that God grants us - the ability to change the trajectory of history. ~ Dexter Palmer

As a passionate sports fan, as well as an athlete, I am excited to be a part of CBS Sports Network's historic sports-focused program hosted entirely by women, especially at a time when the influence of women in sports has evolved to where it is today. ~ Swin Cash

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him. ~ Scottie Pippen

I'm mostly concentrating now on continuing to make history in Hip-Hop, making everybody proud of me, I'm not just a rapper now, I'm in history now. ~ Big Pun

So, I say while we're able to wear the orange and black, let's give this town the title they deserve . . . Let's touch Heaven, boys . . . ~ Michael Dault

No one can compare to Ronaldinho. I remember his plays, his dribbles. I remember him winning every title at the Camp Nou. He made history at Barca, he made history with Brazil and he's still making history. ~ Neymar

There are musicians who want to make a living making music. There are listeners who want to listen to music. Complicating this relationship is a whole bunch of history: some of the music I want to listen to was made a while ago in a different economy. Some of the models of making a living making music are no longer valid but persist. ~ Kent Beck

History is entertainment for the wise and a confirmation for the doomed. ~ Lamine Pearlheart

The concept of preserving history, collating full archives, making them as usable as possible so the public have access to them, I really feel that it allows the public an ability to engage with their own history. ~ Sarah Harrison

Perhaps the worst thing about ideological thinking is that it implies a structure in and behind events, a history that is reiterative, with variations that cannot ultimately change the course of things and are therefore always trivial, no matter how much thought and labor goes into the making of them. ~ Marilynne Robinson

We decided that sports, lifestyle and fashion were three elements that could be mixed together to a very unique formula. That's what we did: make Puma a very sports-fashion brand when, at the times, everybody talked about sports and sports performance and functionality. We said, 'Well, it's about more.' ~ Jochen Zeitz

The only lesson you can learn from history is that it repeats itself ~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer. ~ Will McDonough

Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. ~ George A. Sheehan

All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out. ~ A.J.P. Taylor

The country is full of good coaches. What it takes to win is a bunch of interested players. ~ Don Coryell

The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. ~ Leon Redbone

No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
(The Course of Human Events, NEH Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities 2003) ~ David McCullough

The Jeep is the only true American sports car. ~ Enzo Ferrari

History reminds us that revolutions are not events, so much that they're processes – that for tens of thousands of years, people have been making decisions that irrevocably shaped the world that we live in today; just as today, we are making subtle, irrevocable decisions that people of the future will remember as revolutions. ~ John Green

Men make history, but they can never know the history they are making. ~ Joseph J. Ellis

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. ~ Pat Riley

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes. ~ Mark Wahlberg

By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete. ~ Jane Leavy

Every time that I have ever tried to help a woman out, I have been incarcerated. ~ Jose Canseco

She wanted an Italian sports car - with the sport still in it. ~ Milton Berle