Good Sports Movie Quotes

#1. I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.

Kevin Costner

#2. I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain kind of structure, or a Shakespearean play if you're looking at a comedy or a tragedy, is that these are the heights and depths of human emotion.

Carla Gugino

#3. Life is wasted on the living.

Douglas Adams

#4. Sometimes I'm kind of spacey. I'm like Ferdinand the bull, sniffing the daisy, not aware of time, of what's going on in the real world.

Richard Gere

#5. Neuroscience is by far the most exciting branch of science because the brain is the most fascinating object in the universe. Every human brain is different - the brain makes each human unique and defines who he or she is.

Stanley B. Prusiner

#6. There is nothing outside the universe

Lee Smolin

#7. It is difficult to live with the pure. They do not condemn you; they forgive you. This forgiveness is more terrible than a judgment.

Anais Nin

#8. My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

Paul McCartney

#9. You may love football, but that doesn't mean you have any business trying to play the sport. It's the same thing with filmmaking ... everybody has a great idea for a movie, but do you have the stamina to get good at your craft and deal with how heartbreaking it is?

Adam Green

#10. Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Robert Fulghum

#11. By the way, movies are like sporting events in that you're as good as the movie you're in. You can sit in a room for 20 years and go do a movie and you can just kill in it and you move to the head of the line again. By the same token, you can do five movies a year and if they're dreck, it's nothing.

Albert Brooks

#12. Acting and recording an album at the same time, that's not my sport. I could write a movie when my attention was paid to that. But I'm good at one thing at a time.

Chuck Inglish

#13. He has a frightening aversion to text messaging in general.
"It's a phone. It's for making calls, not for writing novels".

Patrick Carman

#14. Strung out on lasers and slash back blazers.

David Bowie

#15. To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

Rebecca West

#16. Think in terms of what's good for the other person and success will seek you out.

Mary Kay Ash

#17. Catching fish is secondary to the immeasurable joys of the watery world.

Fennel Hudson

#18. God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

Dwight L. Moody

#19. I started off writing kind of big summer, blockbustery kinds of movies, but at that time, I had no name, nobody knew who I was, and somebody told me I can't write movies that are going to cost $100 million to make and expect someone to buy them; it was just impractical.

David Leslie Johnson

#20. Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

Nick Hornby