Halberstam Sports Quotes

#1. Ramming it up the middle only works if you soften the defenses up a little first, the coach said.

Constance Daley

#2. A right judgment draws us a profit from all things we see .

William Shakespeare

#3. May your life be crowded with unexpected joys.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#4. There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

David Halberstam

#5. I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

Subhash Chandra

#6. [On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"
(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)

David Halberstam

#7. When he watched TV, all he saw was an image of his own face, with a mysterious empty city in the background.

Lev Grossman

#8. The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

Donal Henahan

#9. Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.

Alexander Pope

#10. Prosperity's the very bond of love.

William Shakespeare

#11. Light may be shed on man and his origins.

Charles Darwin

#12. I'm not a princess
This ain't a fairy tale
I'm not the one you'll sweep off her feet
Lead her up a stairwell
This ain't Hollywood
This is a small town
I was a dreamer before you went and let me down
Now it's too late for you and your white horse to come around

Taylor Swift

#13. Many hands were willing to perform the last tender ministrations. It is characteristic of the small town and rural districts. Sympathy there takes concrete form. It becomes cakes and cinnamon rolls and sitting up nights, husking corn and washing dishes and closing the eyes of the neighboring dead.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

#14. When you are discussing a successful coach," sports psychologist Bruce Ogilvie once said, not of Ramsay but of the entire profession, "you are not necessarily drawing the profile of an entirely healthy person.

David Halberstam

#15. Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera ... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far too controlled a setting. Besides, the camera liked to focus on individuals, and except for the single scull, crew was sport without faces.

David Halberstam

#16. You might be a redneck if you use a radiator hose to fix your kitchen sink.

Jeff Foxworthy

#17. What a world. It could be so wonderful if it wasn't for certain people.

Woody Allen

#18. Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

David Halberstam

#19. If God is in a life, it doesn't have to be big to be happy and to be important in His kingdom.

Keith Miller