Education Over Sports Quotes

#1. The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation.

Avery Brundage

#2. Apart from education, you need good health, and for that, you need to play sports.

Kapil Dev

#3. I definitely think education is important and both education and sport link really well together. I like to give education and sport the best that I can to see if I can succeed in both.

Jazmin Carlin

#4. My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night.

Danielle Steel

#5. Education is a priority over any sport because without a mind you can't contribute to society.

Tiger Woods

#6. I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.

Eddie George

#7. Sport ... teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice.

Fiona Wood

#8. I try to find more education in the sport while helping people who are trying to be better at whatever they are trying to achieve. That is probably the thing I love most about coaching.

Robin Farina

#9. I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn't yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.

Will.i.am

#10. Do not use compulsion, but let early education be rather a sort of amusement.

Plato

#11. Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

Jack Kerouac

#12. Sport is an essential element of education.

George A. Sheehan

#13. Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.

Carlos Slim

#14. What if you didn't have education for sports? People with a natural inclination for sports, athletes without any kind of education, without any kind of training, they would just be couch athletes instead of the world class Olympians that we have.

Sondra Radvanovsky

#15. If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country.

Ben Carson

#16. - " Are you ready for this ? "
- " What?"
- " Commitment"
- " You make it easy

Kasie West

#17. Though teenagers are generally very interested in sports, they must realise that education is the most important thing in their lives. They must find the right balance.

Kapil Dev

#18. Whatever you need, whatever I have to do. It's been that way since we met. Haven't you noticed yet? We're fucking destined or something. I can't help myself. It's pathetic really.

Anonymous

#19. If the government announced that it was going to allocate a vast tranche of education funding purely to the pupils at the best public schools, there would be a national outcry - and yet this is precisely what the Olympics represents in terms of sports funding.

Will Self

#20. It's pretty hard to have faith when everybody is trying to lock you up.

Richard Brautigan

#21. Your productivity will double with increase physical activity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#22. I don't look at sports as something which merely tones up the body. I look at it as a tool of education that stimulates the mind and brings in a culture of discipline.

Narendra Modi

#23. I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

Sherry Turkle

#24. Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.

Martin Seligman

#25. We want to rescue the American dream.

Bobby Jindal

#26. The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Avery Brundage

#27. In many U.S. schools, sports instilled leadership and persistence in one group of kids while draining focus and resources from academics for everyone. The lesson wasn't that sports couldn't coexist with education; it was that sports had nothing to do with education.

Amanda Ripley

#28. But the girl in his arms stole his heart and stripped him of his pride. Her touch made him both weak and strong at the same time. He was nothing without her.

April Vine

#29. Cherish your human connections - your relationships with friends and family.

Barbara Bush

#30. Make someone else do it... and the job is done"
The shouty man. (Jim Howick)Horrible Histories.

C.G. Hassack

#31. At Reliance Foundation schools, we lay special emphasis on value-based education, sports, and overall development of students. That is why the teacher-students ratio is kept at a healthy 1:20 so that all children get proper attention in class.

Nita Ambani

#32. Most Indians go into education. Their parents just push them into education like parents in Australia push them into sports.

Mahesh Bhupathi

#33. I went to a football school, which meant that I went to a university that served up education and was simultaneously operating a sports franchise.

Susan Orlean

#34. Physical exercise promotes positive self-image, high-productivity and energetic wellbeing.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. There are only two kinds of coaches - those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.

Ken Loeffler