Quotes About Being A Sportsman

#1. There are great disciplines from being a sportsman that you can transfer into being an artist. The preparation, the sacrifice, the constant desire to improve.

Matt Smith

#2. Fuck off with your sofa units and strine green stripe patterns, I say never be complete, I say stop being perfect, I say let ... lets evolve, let the chips fall where they may.

Chuck Palahniuk

#3. She smelled the smoke before she saw it - acrid in her nose, bitter in her throat.

Stephen Lloyd Jones

#4. As a sportsman, I accept being beaten. Everybody tries to be a winner, but only one in a race will win. It's fun to win. But I don't find unhappiness if I lose.

Kipchoge Keino

#5. He'd never seen a rain quite like this so gentle that it seemed barely to fall yet slowly laid its shine on the bay leaves and hydrangea flowers ...

Rose Tremain

#6. He that hath little is the lesse durtie.

George Herbert

#7. I don't think my sister is old enough to have sex."
"V, she's the same age you are."
He frowned for a moment. Was she? Or had he been born first?

J.R. Ward

#8. It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Katherine Dunn

#9. Bin Laden says his own role is to tell Muslims, quote, 'what is good for them and what is not.'

George W. Bush

#10. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.

John Ray

#11. History shows that our way of life is the stronger way. From it has come more wealth, more industry, more happiness, more human enlightenment than from any other way.

Wendell Willkie

#12. Stupid is you can't learn, ignorant is you haven't learned yet.

Chris Cleave

#13. Talent should minister to genius.

Robert Browning

#14. It's more than a feeling," I whispered to the darkness of my room, "and ... even more than a choice. It is a conviction. And a mystery. A beautiful, beautiful mystery.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#15. Bollocks," Ryan said. "I've seen you draw. You're very good, especially at drawing portraits."

James almost laughed. He wasn't all that good at drawing portraits. He was good at drawing Ryan.

Alessandra Hazard

#16. Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

Violette Leduc

#17. I'm just glad Open tennis is here. It's great for the game. That's more important.

Pancho Gonzales