Savvides Sports Quotes

I have always drawn strength from being close to home. ~ Arthur Ashe

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

The coach should be the absolute boss, but he still should maintain an open mind. ~ Red Auerbach

Judgment traps you within the limitations of your comparisons. It inhibits freedom. ~ Willie Stargell

The secret of this sport is, while you're the nail, hang in there, let them hit you, until the day you become the hammer, then you smash them back! ~ Renzo Gracie

My band is so dedicated, everybody works very hard. The No. 1 priority is the show, and it's pretty cool because we all pull together, and it's fun. It's like being on a sports team or something. ~ Bob Seger

My sister is totally my dad's daughter because she loves sports. ~ Ashley Tisdale

Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats like so many box scores in the sports sections. ~ Condoleezza Rice

Say you were standing with one foot in the oven and one foot in an ice bucket. According to the percentage people, you should be perfectly comfortable. ~ Bobby Bragan

The military works like government; is financed like government, and sports the same inherent malignancies and perverse incentives of government, down to the racial-spoils system. ~ Ilana Mercer

That kid ain't got no bills to pay, he ain't got no kids; When you're that young to him it's only all about the sport he's playing. You don't have to worry about nuthin' else! ~ Boo Weekley

If you go to Australia, the Australian Open is on all day long on network TV. There's no way CBS, NBC and ABC would do that. They only show the finals. That's always been the case. They don't want to give the time to the biggest tournament we have in the United States. Any other country, it's everywhere
front page of the main paper, front page of the sports section. We haven't had that here. ~ Lindsay Davenport

There's a confidence and a mental toughness that comes from the very highest level of competition, whatever the sport is. Whether it's boxing or wrestling, or whatever. ~ Joe Rogan

Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment. ~ Madeleine M. Kunin

I wasn't aware of the impact that I had made on the lives of Aboriginal people until I did a bit of travelling and visited various communities throughout Victoria. To see the way that my people looked at me and to know that I made a difference to them was an honour. ~ Lionel Rose

That's what I like about sports. No matter if everyone playing the game speaks completely different languages, on the field, or the court, wherever they are playing, the language of moves and passes and scores is all the same. Universal. ~ Rachel Cohn

I wanted to take up a sport the real way and see if I actually had athletic ability. And then I happened to see it was during the Atlanta Olympics. And there was a lot of coverage of archery because the U.S. men's team won all the medals. And I thought, "Wow, that's beautiful. And it's so dramatic, a beautiful sport. And I wonder if I would be good at it?" ~ Geena Davis

I never go into a race expecting to win, but I do go in expecting to fight. ~ Chrissie Wellington

I was a hyper kid, so I didn't want to play baseball and wait for the ball to come to me. I wanted to play a sport where I could go get the ball. ~ Shane Larkin

If you take time to realize what your dream is and what you really want in life - no matter what it is, whether it's sports or in other fields - you have to realize that there is always work to do, and you want to be the hardest working person in whatever you do, and you put yourself in a position to be successful. And you have to have a passion about what you do. ~ Stephen Curry

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

Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much. ~ Dana Hussein

The sport of competitive memorizing is driven by a kind of arms race where every year somebody comes up with a new way to remember more stuff more quickly, and then the rest of the field has to play catch-up. ~ Joshua Foer

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. ~ LeCrae

I'm girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food. ~ Carrie Underwood

'Just Do It' is exactly what you need to hear when you're in a moment of doubt. When you're struggling, especially with sport ... just do it. Stop talking about it, stop complaining about the cellulite, or that you're not able to run fast enough for the bus ... just do it. ~ Jessie J.

Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire. ~ Bear Bryant

Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner. ~ Jamie Hampton

In an effort to civilize combat sports, authorities mandated padded gloves and instantly made the sports far more savage. Granted, putting gloves on the hands seems like a nice thing to do. If you were being punched in the brain by a powerful man, wouldn't you rather he strap a pillow around his fist? But the glove doesn't do anything to diminish your brain damage. ~ Jonathan Gottschall

As far as my sport is concerned, my mission is to make it as big as it deserves to be. We've been growing, it's just not as noticeable. The NCAA picked beach volleyball up to be a championship sport, and it was the fastest test sport that's been adopted. That's a really big deal for our sport because that just means the USA system is going to have a feeder system from the college system. ~ Kerri Walsh

Do the best work you can do and try not to worry about the fact that you are a woman covering the NFL and you have never played the sport before. Just focus on the story and study, prepare and deliver the best report possible. ~ Megan Alexander

I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it. ~ Mario Lemieux

Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. ~ Roddy Piper

Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. ~ Roger Bannister

There's no disgrace in failure, the disgrace is not to try. ~ Cathy Rigby

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. ~ Idris Khan

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Sport is an important part of the Australian psyche. Anybody who thinks that sport is not part of the fabric of Australian life misunderstands this country quite dramatically. ~ John Howard

I don't want to sound condescending, so I'm not going to say anything else, except that it is literally impossible to imagine a thing dumber than sports. ~ Jesse Andrews

On a good team there are no superstars. There are great players who show they are great players by being able to play with others as a team. They have the ability to be superstars, but if they fit into a good team, they make sacrifices, they do things necessary to help the team win. What the numbers are in salaries or statistics don't matter; how they play together does. ~ Red Holzman