Hard Quote by Irvin S. Cobb Download Open image “As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.” — Irvin S. Cobb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hard Hard work Paid Sports Work
As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work. — Avery Brundage Copy Share Image
I haven't played tennis since 2006, and tennis is one of those sports where if you don't play, you don't get paid. — Mark Philippoussis Copy Share Image
I don't think there is anything wrong in earning money from the sport you love. If you work hard and get benefits from it,… — Virat Kohli Copy Share Image
If you're at the top of the game, you're earning money. But compared to other sports, like tennis, you're earning peanuts. — Judd Trump Copy Share Image
Unlike cricket or tennis, athletics receive no money and so it remains a poor man's sport. — P. T. Usha Copy Share Image
There are lots of similarities between sport and business. And in both if you do well people will reward you for it. — David Coulthard Copy Share Image
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. — Pierre de Coubertin Copy Share Image
Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work. — Earl Monroe Copy Share Image
Sport is a seductive metaphor (life as a game in which we gain victory through hard work, discipline, and visualizing success). but the older… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Playing sports is a craft that has to be worked on and perfected just like anything else. — B. J. Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Daylight would have shown a wilderness weathered and blowzy, a wanton that had lived her summer too fast and too greedily. It would have shown the white birches pale and shivering in a sudden ague, and here and there an ash or a sumac burning red, like a hectic spot, where the first frosts already had set the marks of… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share
Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
If a woman likes another woman, she's cordial. If she doesn't like her, she's very cordial. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
“By now the moon was well down. Over the tree tops they had seen her cruise across the heavens to strike on a reef of jagged clouds, and now she foundered among them in the semblance of a ruined galleon, the sails lost overboard, the belly-shaped hull punctured; and just above her there swung a single red star, like a… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share
A good storyteller is a person with a good memory and hopes other people haven't. — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
Of all American cities of whatever size the most friendly on preliminary inspection, and on further acquaintance the most likable. The happiest-hearted, the gayest,… — Irvin S. Cobb Copy Share Image
You'd be surprised how hard it can often be to translate an action into an idea. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
I think you can get, as a player, stuck in the mindset of trying too hard to prove yourself. — Trinity Rodman Copy Share Image
America is a democracy and has no Hitler, but I am afraid for her future; there are hard times ahead for the American people,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
One of the worst things to come out of the Consumer Protection Board's misleading claims is the impression that government resources are to hard… — Matthew Lesko Copy Share Image
In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries or nationalist identity. We're going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point. So how we embrace them and deal with them will define a great many things about where we… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In… — Gertrude B. Elion Copy Share Image
High school, going into my junior year, I kind of had the idea I was going to be the starting running back. I was a little smaller, so I decided to gain weight and try to get faster. I wasn't a fan of the weight room. I thought just the God-given talent would take you where you needed to go.… — Saquon Barkley Copy Share
It's very easy to fool yourself that you're working, you know, when you're really not working very hard. I mean, I'm very lazy. So… — Robert Caro Copy Share Image
If I had to speak in front of a Korean audience, I would be hard pressed to sound other than a little girl. — An Na Copy Share Image
It took me 20 years of hard training to get the physique I have today. what you need is what i had - BELIEF… — Branch Warren Copy Share Image
