A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
Science is not like the Olympic Games or something where there's a lot of people all trying to win gold medals, and… — Frederick Sanger Copy Share Image
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If… — Pat Riley Copy Share Image
There's two extremes in male sport: there's complete and total worship of them, or complete and utter contempt. Those extremes create huge… — Ellyse Perry Copy Share Image
If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans… — Venus Williams Copy Share Image
We live in a country where movies, music, and sports are more important than God to a lot of people. It's why… — Shaun King Copy Share Image
I think the Greeks invented sports as an antidote to philosophy. In sports there are absolute rules. It's not, What about this?… — Jack Nicholson Copy Share Image
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about… — Simon Kuper Copy Share Image
Attempts are found in domains of human performance, such as sports, games, artistic domains, professional domains like medicine and the law, and… — Ernest Sosa Copy Share Image
Proportion is all; and, in sports at school, I lost it by surrendering to the awful significance of my self-consciousness. Shyness has… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
A lot of times, when you see someone do something, whether it's sports or multimedia or whatever their profession is, you think… — Jalen Rose Copy Share Image
I am a National Football League player of American Samoan heritage. Because of my status as a professional athlete, I have been… — Troy Polamalu Copy Share Image
Pythagoras used to say that life resembles the Olympic Games: a few people strain their muscles to carry off a prize; others… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The basic thing is to be humble, and pretend you're a bartender in the tavern of life. Don't get too comfortable and… — James McBride Copy Share Image
We knew sports was important to us and our family, but there are priorities in life.Obviously, faith is foremost; how we did… — Stephen Curry Copy Share Image
In Chicagoland, they had afternoon 'Jeopardy!' and afternoon Cubs games when they were at home, so that was basically what I would… — James Holzhauer Copy Share Image
Obviously, football and soccer seem to clash a lot, but soccer was great for me. It's a game that you play with… — Chris Borland Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to have the opportunity to graduate from one of the most respected academic institutions in the world while growing… — Daniel Jones Copy Share Image
I grew up snowboarding in two of the best states for the sport: Colorado and Utah. The world-class ski mountains in these… — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
It's really neat when you become a role model. It's also a lot of responsibility. But if you see it as a… — Tobin Heath Copy Share Image
I have no physical genius about me. I can't dribble a ball and run at the same time, I can't do lay-ups… — Rich Mullins Copy Share Image
Don't ask me silly questions I won't play silly games I'm just a simple choo choo train And I'll always be the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All of us get knocked down, but it's resiliency that really matters. All of us do well when things are going well,… — Roger Staubach Copy Share Image
Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every… — Joe Montana Copy Share Image
“Baseball, football, basketball - these quintessentially American pastimes are recognizably sports because they involve play: they are games. One plays football, one… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's… — A. Bartlett Giamatti Copy Share Image
It's tough to know who's better in cliff diving. Like, you see a guy diving off a cliff and you go, Oh,… — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
Kids who dream of reaching the top must grow up looking forward to the big games which define them at every level… — Robbie Savage Copy Share Image
Scoring, that's my thing... Didier Drogba, Samuel Eto'o, those were the guys that we looked at as kids like, 'Man, they're doing… — Pascal Siakam Copy Share Image
Everyone is gonna have a bad day, everyone is gonna have a bad game. The questions are: How do you recover? What… — Gilbert Arenas Copy Share Image
Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine,… — Gary Vaynerchuk Copy Share Image
There is no room in your mind for negative thoughts. The busier you keep yourself with the particulars of shot assessment and… — Jack Nicklaus Copy Share Image
I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and… — Caitlyn Jenner Copy Share Image
A good athlete can enter a state of body-awareness in which the right stroke or the right movement happens by itself, effortlessly,… — Laozi Copy Share Image
The wagering thing for a lawyer is very interesting. Will there be mobile sports wagering? Will there be mobile prop betting? Conceivably,… — Oliver Luck Copy Share Image
There are a lot of things that can be learned from the darker corners of athletics. You have doctors who view bodybuilders… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
