Quotes About Sports And Education

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

Plato

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

Kapil Dev

#4. 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

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

Ken Loeffler

#11. When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

Kelly McGonigal

#12. Flesh is willing, but the Soul requires
Sisyphean patience for its song,
Time, Hippocrates remarked, is short
and Art is long.

Charles Baudelaire

#13. Sport is an essential element of education.

George A. Sheehan

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

Carlos Slim

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. Celery leaves are an underused ingredient, most likely because supermarkets sell mostly leafless stalks.

Yotam Ottolenghi

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

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

Sherry Turkle

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. Perhaps it was better not to see pictures: they only made one hopelessly discontented with one's own work.

Virginia Woolf

#26. 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

#27. For me, acting was a reward. I had to get good grades in order to act, in order to be on TV. I had to do well in school so I could work. To me, it was like an after-school activity, something to look forward to.

Kyla Pratt

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. Give me a reason to push my Dislike button.

Andrew Barger

#30. Reynolds showed me that the power of love is both inescapable and infinite.

Laura Ward

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

Mahesh Bhupathi

#32. 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

#33. I've enjoyed collecting. I've enjoyed art ever since - I'll tell you when - I went to Columbia. I went to the Met, and I saw Poussin's 'Rape of the Sabine Women', and it's this incredible, epic, great, great painting.

Daniel S. Loeb

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

Lailah Gifty Akita

#35. ADVENIENT (ADVE'NIENT) adj.[adveniens, Lat.]Advening; coming from outward causes; superadded.

Samuel Johnson