Sports Parenting Quotes

In Los Angeles, parenting is a competitive sport. From Beverly Hills baby boutiques to kids' yoga classes, L.A. fuses high style, industrial-strength materialism, and parental outsourcing into our own unique version of child-rearing. ~ Shawn Amos

Greatness, whether athletic or otherwise, doesn't come from those content on just being but from those who seek being the difference. ~ Kirk Mango

With my sport, I am outside and in the water, which can be really drying and damaging to the skin, so I try to be vigilant about taking good care of it. ~ Amanda Beard

Billions of people are living on the earth today with the knowledge of mathematics, physics, and biology. They have the knowledge of stocks market, the knowledge of politics, engineering, law, and medicine. They know about fashion, sports, arts, music and a lot more other aspects of life. However, the sad reality is that a greater percentage of these people do not know who they are nor why they exist. They do not know for what purpose they are on the earth and where they are heading ~ Clement Ogedegbe

He had the polite yet aggressive air of a man who enjoys competitive racket sports. ~ Hari Kunzru

It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character ... Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters. ~ Archibald Rutledge

Exactly what are you wanting to teach your children? -How to love and care for themselves, or how to neglect and abandon themselves? Self-sarifice is NOT setting a good example. ~ Miya Yamanouchi

There is no sport in hate where all the rage Is on one side. ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

My mother passed away when I was 14, so there were certain things I missed in terms of upbringing. Maybe my mother would have said, 'You have to get a real job.' I don't know because I didn't have that experience. My fortes in school were Spanish, sports, reading and theater. That's what they encouraged. ~ Joie Lee

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame. ~ William Shakespeare

Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports. ~ Joe Manganiello

I always look on the bright side of everything. If you keep aiming for some goal, you usually get there if you don't give up. ~ Bart Cummings

Parenting should always come from a place of unconditional loving. ~ Fiona Dimas-Herd

I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he's a student, how's he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that's an important form of sport and recreation, too. ~ Bill Bowerman

Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch. ~ David Lauren

Fear - It's a fine line between that and pushing yourself. You definitely reach new heights when you push. But fear is good. Fear keeps us alive. If we didn't have it, we'd be doing crazy things and getting in sticky situations. ~ Stephanie Gilmore

The man who can accept defeat and take his salary without feeling guilty is a thief. ~ George Allen

I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize. ~ Warren Farrell

I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role. ~ Chris Pine

We must teach our children to get 'EXCITED' about life and the World around them,instead of 'painting' their minds with OUR potrayal of 'how' the World is...children learn from 'emulating' their elders,not by being told...which asks US to 'live' that excitement.If we do not live that way then LEARN it and pass it on to our children..We will be doing them a HUGE FAVOR! ~ Abha Maryada Banerjee

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport. ~ Bernie Ecclestone

Fencing is more a sport than a martial art. It would be like basing your knowledge of roman phalanx warfare on NFL football. ~ Patrick Rothfuss

I have been visualizing myself every night for the past four years standing on the podium having the gold placed around my neck. ~ Megan Jendrick

There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now. ~ John Elway

One of the great myths in America is that sports build character. They can and they should. Indeed, sports may be the perfect venue in which to build character. But sports don't build character unless a coach possesses character and intentionally teaches it. Sports can team with ethics and character and spirituality; virtuous coaching can integrate the body with the heart, the mind, and the soul. ~ Joe Ehrmann

Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment. ~ Jim Bridwell

I wondered when I had forgotten that, despite everything, he was still just a child. ~ Khaled Hosseini

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. ~ Halsey

But how we should care for other people remains a question. In his discussion of efforts to control childhood obesity, the philosopher Michael Merry defines paternalism as "interference with the liberty of another for the purposes of promoting some good or preventing some harm." This type of paternalism, he notes, is reflected in traffic laws, gun control, and environmental regulations. These are limits to liberty, even if they are benevolent. Interfering with the parenting of obese children, he argues, is not necessarily benevolent. There is risk in assigning risk. ~ Eula Biss

I slid down in the seat and began to weep. I wept for her, for me, but mostly because the siren call of my first big story with a yellow border around it was more powerful than the call of fatherhood. ~ Joe McNally

The only reward in this game is winning. It's no fun to practice; it's no fun to play and lose. ~ Gerry DiNardo

Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport. ~ Maria Edgeworth

I don't mind the sparkle - I think it's kind of a tradition in skating. I don't think the men really need sparkles, but for the women it's part of the glamour of our sport. ~ Kristi Yamaguchi

My overwhelming concern will always be the well-being of the athletes. In Olympic sport, it is rare for competitors not to devote half their young life to this. Their families will have given up all sorts of things to allow them to do that. ~ Sebastian Coe

I don't think you're ever there. You never arrive, but if you do, you might as well quit because you're already there. Can't get any better. And as players, if you ever have that moment - you should never have that moment. You're always trying to get better. ~ Tiger Woods

I'm a purist, and I love the sport. I loved the '60s and '70s, when the fans even enjoyed the races where only four cars finished, and they were two laps apart. ~ Jacques Villeneuve

Sharing is Caring - Teaching our children to share is teaching them compassion and love. ~ Kevin Heath

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching. ~ Damon Hill

Parents must try to be, or at least put forth their best efforts to be, what they wish [their] children to be. It is impossible for you to be an example of what you are not. ~ Joseph Fielding Smith

You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks. ~ Inga Cadranel

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. ~ Richard Attias

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do. ~ Lou Holtz

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either. ~ Mike Tyson

Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind. ~ Joe Montana