Quotes About Sports Reporters

#1. All good sports reporters know that the best stories are in the loser's locker room.

Pete Hamill

#2. When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

Daniel Tammet

#3. As educators, we are only as effective as what we know. If we have no working knowledge of what students studied in previous years, how can we build on their learning? If we have no insight into the curriculum in later grades, how can we prepare learners for future classes?

Heidi Hayes Jacobs

#4. But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, or the agonies which are have their origin in the ecstasies which might have been.

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. You should think with your heart,' said her mother.
'My heart?' whispered Ophelia.
'Your heart,' said her mother, and she touched Ophelia's chest with the tip of her finger. It was the tiniest of touches, but a warmth and new hope spread through Ophelia's body. She began to smile.

Karen Foxlee

#6. Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

Ogden Nash

#7. The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

Sam Snead

#8. People come up to me all the time who saw Dad in 'Oklahoma!' or 'Pajama Game,' and they say they'll never forget it.

Bonnie Raitt

#9. It's okay to be afraid, Jo. It's what keeps us alive. But falling to that fear is what will get you killed.

Brandy Nacole

#10. There's that old journalism rule that sunshine is the great disinfectant - which is how reporters bust their way into meetings and such all the time. In sports, I really think winning is the great disinfectant.

J.R. Moehringer

#11. All I ever really want to know is how other people are making it through life - where do they put their body, hour by hour, and how do they cope inside of it.

Miranda July

#12. I keep plastering it until it comes around to what I want, in terms of all I know and think about painting now, as well as in terms of the initial observation.

Richard Diebenkorn

#13. If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet
is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

Martha Beck

#14. If you take a scotch whiskey and distill out the alcohol, what is left has an amazing taste to it and can be used as a flavoring for a dessert.

Nathan Myhrvold

#15. There's nothing like watching Dr. Oz and working out at the same time; you feel like you're the healthiest human being on the planet.

Lecy Goranson

#16. It bothers me when I hear these reporters and jocks get on TV and say: 'Oh, no guy can come out in a team sport. These guys would go crazy.' First of all, quit telling me what I think. I'd rather have a gay guy who can play than a straight guy who can't play.

Charles Barkley

#17. It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

Jack Buck