Skolfield Sports Quotes

Gene Tunney called Gibbons 'the perfect boxer.' Gene said he learned more about the technique of boxing and punching from watching Mike training in New York gymnasiums and in actual fights in Gotham than he learned from any other individual associated with the fistic sport.
Moreover, Tunney has told me it was Gibbons' clean-cut victory over Jack Dillon, the mighty light heavyweight from Indianapolis, that inspired in him the belief he could whip Jack Dempsey. ~ George Aaron Barton

I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that. ~ Vince Vaughn

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

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad. ~ Billie Jean King

In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure. ~ Dick Schaap

There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute. ~ Eric Lindros

Pumping iron is not what it used to be. It doesn't have the personality it used to. When we started out, people who worked out had nothing. Now there is so much money involved; back then it was the love of the sport. We appreciated what we have. Today it's not the same. ~ Lou Ferrigno

Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together. ~ Ed Greenwood

So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship. ~ George J. Mitchell

When placed in command, take charge. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey. ~ Matthew Perry

A coach is someone who always makes you do what you don't want to do, so you can be who you've always wanted to be. ~ Leeman Bennett

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Children's Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didn't raise a significant amount of money. ~ Tom Kite

And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. ~ Dinah Shore

From 17 to 21, I was obsessed by sport and art. In art, I loved the pre-Raphaelites and Rembrandt first. Then I discovered Salvador Dali, and it was like finding something I already knew. ~ Anthony Browne

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ~ George Bernard Shaw

You didn't play baseball that well with two hands. How do you think you're going to make it with one?
"If you're just going to tell me what I can't do, you can leave. ~ Mary Jane Auch

Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else. ~ Chuck Noll

I still have a lot of room for improvement. I need to become a more skilled player. ~ Tony Parker

I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball? ~ Roger Ebert

As I've mentioned, I am an only child. This makes me a member of the worldwide super-smart-afraid-of-conflict narcissist club. And let me emphasize: afraid of conflict. Since I had no siblings to routinely challenge/hit me and equally no interest in playing sports, I had grown up without any experience in conflict. I therefore had no reason to imagine that confrontation of any kind, ranging from fighting to kissing, was not probably fatal. ~ John Hodgman

Those extreme-sports kids today are good, but they have it easy. Try falling off of a motorcycle going 70 or 80 miles per hour on asphalt. Believe me, nothing equals it. ~ Evel Knievel

Even if states sometimes have problems with each other, arts and sports should not suffer from that. Arts and sports are there to bring the people together - and not to divide them. ~ Vladimir Putin

If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself. ~ Mike Weir

I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself. ~ Sugar Ray Leonard

There is only one emotion that I know of which has absolutely no place in spectator sport and death to it - laughter. ~ Rene Maheu

Play for the name on the front of the shirt, and they will remember the name on the back ~ Tony Adams

As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all. ~ Franny Armstrong

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. ~ Jake Epstein

I did what sports were supposed to be like, and I was living in my car. So you know what, fine. I'm gonna talk a bunch of sh*t. I'm gonna pose in a couple of pictures. And I'm gonna break a couple of girl's arms, and I'm not gonna feel the least bit sorry about it because you know what? At least I can feed my dog. ~ Ronda Rousey

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives. ~ Rob Lee

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

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire. ~ George Foreman

We have the best sporting event in the world in polo, and yet it is weak. ~ Facundo Pieres

Injuries are a huge thing for skating. I think skating is a very unnatural sport for the body, very tough on the joints. ~ Patrick Chan

Ironically, more impact may result from more cushioning because, to regain balance, the pillowish pile encourages the foot to plow into the ground like a bull in a china shop. A study Robbins published in 1997 found that runners tend to land harder on soft surfaces to improve stability. He concluded that sports shoes are too soft and thick and recommended they be redesigned to protect the wearer. Most ~ Ken Bob Saxton

I feel like I'm going to break," I murmur into his neck, clutching his powerful shoulders.

"I'm not going to let that happen. Fall apart for me. ~ Kendall Ryan

In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night. ~ Jesse Owens

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great. ~ Tom Brady

Ballet aficionados are just sports fans in formal wear. ~ S.L. Price

People who aren't perhaps that into sport are going to be following me and wanting to be part of the Olympics. That definitely does bring added pressure but as an athlete the Olympics are the ultimate competition. ~ Jessica Ennis

The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within. ~ Winston Churchill

This is the very structure of sports journalism: deification and damnation, death and resurrection, failure and redemption. You succeed so you can falter so you can succeed again. We need a rise and a fall. We need hubris and retribution and recovery. ~ Will Leitch

I got 304's in 310 on Section 8, with multiple 187's ...
Sport a Marilyn Manson t-shirt when I die and go to heaven. ~ Ras Kass

In the 1950s, when I was hanging around Sullivan's Gym and the Gramercy Gym, there were fixed fights. Mob guys like Frankie Carbo and Blinky Palermo had taken over the sport; one lightweight champion loaned his title to others at least twice; the welterweight division was a slag heap. ~ Pete Hamill

The Oscars is a sport. There's the excitement of watching something live, as it happens. ~ Neil Meron