Best 7068 quotes in «sports quotes» category

Poetry is play. I'd even rather have you think of it as a sport. For instance, like football.

Poker has the feeling of a sport, but you don't have to do push-ups.

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.

Politics is a contact sport.

Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to.

Politics is a blood sport.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

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.

Politics has become a game of meaningless, mindless battles, conducted by unscrupulous methods and people, designed to transform even the most serious policy debates into sport.

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

Pornography and cooking shows have created two new spectator sports.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.

Practice works because practice gives us a chance to relax enough to make smart choices.

Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game.

Pressure bursts pipes. I thank God for giving me peace of mind to overcome pressure. The difference between winning and losing is when pressure hits.

Pressure is playing for ten dollars when you don't have a dime in your pocket.

Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.

Pride was his life force; for us it was a live nerve that he could teach us to brush. One stroke, a good practice, and we could tingle for days ... First, he found the pride in each of us, then he taught us how good it could feel. What he was ultimately after was for every one of us to learn to light our own fires and glow our brightest.

Probably no one here knows I coached a football team - a service team - playing against Georgetown. I think it was in the fall of 1924 Lou Little was your coach, and he beat us. But it was a very happy circumstance, because it brought me the friendship of another man, Lou Little, who to this day remains my very warm associate and friend.

Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

Professional motorcycle riders that are pretty young because it's a young man's sport. You're like out of your prime if you're in your mid to late 20s. Which is awful but a lot of guys still do ride into their late 20s. I rode. I just didn't do any of the jumps or races.

Professional sports is a business.

Profit by your own mistakes and profit by the mistakes of others. The referees were calling ball handling violations like they were getting commissions.

Professional football in America is a special game, a unique game ... It is a rare game. The men who play it make it so. All of them are fearless. All of them are strong, quick. And all of them are part of a story that began long ago. A story written by men who found, in the sport, a demanding measure for their own courage and ability.

Producing Bob Dylan was pretty much a spectator sport.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.

Professionally - I had the opportunity to play sports throughout my youth, in high school and college. Early on, I decided I wanted to be a coach so I tried to learn everything I could about all positions on the team.

Pro football was taking off when I became commissioner, and when a sport's successful and you're its chief executive officer, much of the credit flows to you and you develop a good track record.

Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.

Professional bodybuilding is a sport of total dedication. You must dedicate every aspect of every day to the attainment of your goals if you want to succeed. It is not enough to merely go to the gym to "work out." You must put all of your concentration and focus on each rep, on each set, on each exercise to have a successful workout.

Professional competitions are overrated.

Professional sports are something they can't control.

Pro Football Hall of Famer is something that everyone recognizes as the pinnacle of any achievement in sport. All the fame and all the recognition that we single out in various industries, the Pro Football Hall of Fame is really special.

Professional sports, in of itself, is a fantasy, for the majority of the population.

Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

Protect Our Winters is this foundation I started in 2007, and it focuses on slowing down climate change by bringing the winter sports community together and having a strong voice to make change and slow down climate change.

Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing.

Promiscuity turns sex into a sport, like arm-wrestling.

Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.

Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. Its about education, work, marriage - its even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.

Quick guys get tired; big guys don't shrink.

Quite simply the Games are the biggest opportunity sport in this country has ever had. It is one that we must not squander.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

Quayle said the worst thing that happened to him was that he never trusted his own judgment. I said from now on I am going to go with my own judgment.