1950s Sports Quotes

#1. I acted on my core beliefs on social issues as governor.

Jeb Bush

#2. I prefer not to fly, but sometimes it's unavoidable.

Jermain Defoe

#3. 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

#4. "Do you think you would've been better off not getting yours back?"
Jeb looks down at the floor, a thoughtful crease between his eyebrows. "I think I would've been better off not ever making them to begin with."

A.G. Howard

#5. All wars are fought twice, the first time on the battlefield, the second time in memory.

Viet Thanh Nguyen

#6. Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.

John Steinbeck

#7. She was in a free fall now. And it wasn't killing her. In fact, she was beginning to wonder if she might've had it backwards. All that fixating on the fall...maybe she should've been paying more attention to the free.

Gayle Forman

#8. The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Bob Edwards

#9. Fry me an optimist for breakfast.

Mark Twain

#10. Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out.

Ice-T

#11. Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all afflictions.

John Muir

#12. The mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

Howard Raiffa

#13. I needed to hear the world but didn't want the world to know I was listening.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#14. If I could do just one thing, it would be to dissociate faith from virtue, now and for good, and to expose it for what it is, a servile weakness, a refuge in cowardice, and a willingness to follow, with credulity, people who are in the highest degree unscrupulous.

Christopher Hitchens