Childhood Sports Quotes

#1. Since childhood, sports has been one of the most important influences in my life.

Lindsey Vonn

#2. I had a series of childhood illnesses ... scarlet fever ... pneumonia ... Polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.

Wilma Rudolph

#3. I'm not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn't the shortest kid in the class.

John Bingham

#4. You've got to be ready for the fastball.

Ted Williams

#5. Zionists believe they are entitled by God to the land, groves and homes of the non-Jewish underclass. They quote the Bible as the reference that 'God gave them the land.' The size of the alleged God-given land has never been determined and Israel's borders still remain fuzzy.

Lee Whitnum

#6. Gift yourself the opportunity to allow for your dreams to chase you down.

Steven Cuoco

#7. My study of chess was accompanied by a strong attraction to music, and it was probably thanks to this that from childhood I became accustomed to thinking of chess as an art, for all the science and sport involved in it.

Vasily Smyslov

#8. Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#9. I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on.

Stephen Sondheim

#10. Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

C.S. Lewis

#11. I really didn't think about song writing.

Adam Rich

#12. When he throws one in from half court and raises his arms triumphantly, spectators' emotions rise in sympathetic gasps of joy; childhood revisited for a brief moment

Brian Triptow

#13. Dream Your World. Be Your World. Flaunt Your World.

Sam Maggs

#14. The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing.

Mahatma Gandhi

#15. A slow, wry smile teased Daemon's lips. "Simmer down, Kitten, before I have to get you a ball of yarn to play with."
Annoyance flared deep inside me. "Don't start with me, jerk-face.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#16. My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.

Teddy Sears

#17. During my childhood, I played just about every sport imaginable, which became less feasible at Juilliard ... Although I remember our annual dodge-ball game as a highlight. The Juilliard 'Fighting Penguins' are a force to be reckoned with.

Seth Numrich

#18. It's no surprise that I ended up in sportscasting. I lived this world with my father, Mike Storen. Dad was a sports executive for most of my childhood.

Hannah Storm

#19. I think Shazam is one of the coolest inventions on the planet, and whether I was in a thrift store or in my car, every other week I was Shazaming another Best Coast song.

Drew Barrymore

#20. Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them.

M. Scott Peck

#21. Yeah, we're working on [Blade Runner 2] right now - that will happen sooner or later.

Ridley Scott

#22. Just as the blurring between childhood and adulthood has produced the kidult, so the stretching of middle into old age has fostered another peculiar chimera: septuagenarians with apoptosis sporting the depeche mode.

Will Self

#23. Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Chris Brogan

#24. You take the work seriously, you don't take yourself seriously. You keep that straight and you'll do well the rest of your life.

Clint Eastwood

#25. Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Erykah Badu

#26. I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney