Quotes About Sports Heroes

#1. But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don't despise them nearly as much as we should.

Jaclyn Friedman

#2. A weak, insecure nation needs sporting heroes, players larger than life on the cricketing field, who can transcend the limitations of their country and team.

Shashi Tharoor

#3. The baby sits in front of MTV watching violent fantasies, while Dad guzzles beer with his favorite sport only to find his heroes all coked up.

Lou Reed

#4. Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

Les Carlyon

#5. Boxing is a dying sport, really. Years ago, the world heavyweight champion could be said to have reached the highest pinnacle of sport. Even in this country, boxers were heroes. Think of Henry Cooper and Frank Bruno.

Tyson Fury

#6. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.

Amit Kalantri

#7. I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.

Giles Duley

#8. The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler

Albert Einstein

#9. Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

Bobby Bonilla

#10. I am not a weapon. I don't want to be a weapon!
"You are what you are. I am what I am. It matters little what we want.

Amy Harmon

#11. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#12. Some of the more sought-after signers are, in no particular order, presidents, military heroes, sports icons, actors, singers, artists, religious and social leaders, scientists, astronauts, authors, and Kardashians.

Carrie Fisher

#13. Whether you chose right or left,or left than right. You have a choice, so chose the right one.

Unanimous

#14. The workings of heaven are unfathomable-sometimes encouraging, sometimes suppressing. All this makes sport of heroes and tumbles the great. Enlightened people take adversity in stride and are prepared for trouble even when at ease; therefore, they are not at the mercy of fate.

Zicheng Hong

#15. He ground into me. His denim covered OHMYGOD pressing into my hot uncovered ... lady business. I really had to start using grown up words.

Molly Harper

#16. My heroes, I couldn't imagine them practicing. Like Bob Dylan, you know? Bob Dylan's a very, very good guitar player, but it's like he's trying to hide it. I always loved this attitude. When you're very good ... it's like being an athlete - and I always hated sports!

Laurent Brancowitz

#17. As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

#18. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.

Lavinia Milosovici

#19. My former coach, Simen Agdestein, used to be the best player in Norway.

Magnus Carlsen

#20. The conscience is the tool that God the Holy Spirit uses to convict us, bring us to repentance, and to receive the healing of forgiveness that flows from the gospel.

R.C. Sproul

#21. The magical gem bracelet, in all of its yellow beauty, was out of its league. My mind and heart couldn't slow down." --- Jennifer Mills

Dianne Bright

#22. If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

Gloria Steinem

#23. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#24. From the shaken tower
A flock of bells take flight,
And go with the hour.

Alice Meynell

#25. Every natural movement is graceful. Did you ever watch a kitten at play?

Anna Cora Mowatt

#26. Growing old is an unwinnable campaign. During this war we witness ugly scenes. Truths mutate to whims. Faith becomes cynical transactions between liars. Sacrifices turn out to be needless excesses. Heroes become old farts, and young farts become heroes. Ethics become logos on sports clothing.

David Mitchell

#27. Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up

Warren Buffett

#28. The meaning lies in the appropriation.

Soren Kierkegaard

#29. A friend of mine who used to be my boss at ESPN once was asked why sports had exploded the way it had. He said, "Because you can't go to Blockbuster and rent tonight's game." Every night is different in sports. Every day there are different heroes and villains and conversations after the game.

Mike Lupica

#30. I've never felt that I've had some great fashion sense of my own - I tend to wear what my wife tells me to wear.

Alessandro Nivola

#31. Athletes are American princes and the locker room is their castle. Some of them behave in princely fashion, become legitimate heroes to us all. And some are jerks.

Anna Quindlen

#32. I'm just a risk taker. I have gut instincts.

Gary Gygax

#33. It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring.

John Lennon

#34. To be the child of immigrants from Eastern Europe is in itself a special kind of experience; and an important one to an author. He has heard two languages through childhood, the one spoken with ease at home, and the other spoken with ease in the streets and at school, but spoken poorly at home.

Delmore Schwartz

#35. To get out of a hard situation, try a soft answer.

John C. Maxwell

#36. He feels a little better while watching the guy on TV or thinking of him. Still, he feels insignificant. He has a few heroes whom he sees on other TV shows: sports figures, a tough cop or a late-night talk show host. He lives vicariously through all of them. Unbeknownst

Anton Szandor LaVey