Best Short Sports Quotes

#1. Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#2. Laura, there aren't any guarantees. You certainly know that. Yes, you could be hurt. You could also be happy. Or you could just get your oil checked.

Nora Roberts

#3. When launching a product called an Energy Drink and named Red Bull, a product that stimulates body and mind, it is a short step to the roots where Red Bull came from. We have been doing this for 20 years - now it's called adventure sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports.

Dietrich Mateschitz

#4. I'm disturbed because the doctors tell me I'm as sound as a dollar.

John Diefenbaker

#5. I was sad to see anybody leave, we had a very nice family on that show. I was very sad to see momma go, Victoria and especially Linda. My god that was my wife on the show, in fact my wife calls her wife.

Larry Hagman

#6. 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

#7. Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo <2000, as fly-swatting makes poor spectator sport. (on simultaneous exhibitions)

Nigel Short

#8. Not prejudging things, listening to what's going on, keeping your ears, heart, and mind open.

Haruki Murakami

#9. The golf swing is among the most stressful and unnatural acts in sports, short of cheering for the Yankees.

Brad Faxon

#10. One is more admired for claiming to do good than for proving to be right.

Emmett Tyrrell

#11. I mean, anything that money can be made off will never be a problem to make, no matter what it is.

John Malkovich

#12. The only things that interested me were sports, girls, adventures, celebrities - in short, life.

Porfirio Rubirosa

#13. I came from a poor family. My father was from Glasgow, Scotland; my mother's brothers were brakemen on the railroad. We didn't have anything but mush for breakfast.

Mickey Rooney

#14. A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#15. Cricket, like all sport, offers glory to few and a lifetime of it to even fewer. For the investment it demands, it offers short careers that end when people in other professions are starting to flourish.

Harsha Bhogle

#16. Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.

Bo Jackson

#17. Winning is euphoric, but it lasts a short time. You've got to lap it up, then move on to the next thing. I think I've kept winning because I haven't attached myself to past successes.

Stephanie Gilmore

#18. You hear the same thing every year but that is because it is true. In a short series, pitching is very dominant.

Carl Erskine

#19. Sports life is very short.

Sergei Bubka

#20. As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.

Tim Conway

#21. Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

David Walton

#22. Not how it is meant. Law is defined by its effect rather than its intention, and its chief affect his accusation, the intimation of less-than.

William McDavid

#23. We have a government that, generally speaking, does not respond to the people.

Christopher Reeve

#24. It is not a lonely feeling, but just as I am always sad to close the cover on a book, I feel I have finished with this part of my life and will have to begin a new book.

Nancy E. Turner

#25. When I was fifteen, I dreamed of living in the big city, as many a young person does if he is artistic and sensitive. By 'artistic and sensitive' I mean short, skinny, unkissed, bad at sports, and carrying a C average in high school.

P. J. O'Rourke

#26. Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

Ben Jonson

#27. Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

Stuart Dybek

#28. Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Jack Zipes

#29. I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

James Frey