Quotes About The Value Of Sports

#1. The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.

Willi Smith

#2. Basketball Rule #6
A great team
has a good scorer
with a teammate
who's on point
and ready
to assist.

Kwame Alexander

#3. Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport.

Nelson Mandela

#4. Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.

Michael Basman

#5. Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.

James E. Rogers

#6. Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches their ears, flattery is always at hand to pour in her opiates, to quiet conviction and obtund remorse.

Samuel Johnson

#7. It takes patience to become the best runner you can be. Top athletes realize that running is a long-term sport. It is set up for people who value delayed gratification and who like hard-earned success.

Anthony Famiglietti

#8. Flyfishing does have its social aspects - on some of our crowded trout streams it can get too social - but esentially it's a solitary, contemplative sport. People are left alone with themselves in beautiful surroundings to try to accomplish something that seems to have genuine value.

John Gierach

#9. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands; and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose.

Sun Tzu

#10. The smaller the detail the greater the value.

Doug Johnson

#11. The true value of sport is more than the skills that young people learn.

Thomas Menino

#12. Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.

Corey Irwin

#13. I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.

Tommy Hilfiger

#14. I used to call her, in my stupidity - for want of anything better - a dove

Henry James

#15. I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if you value your life.

Jarod Kintz

#16. Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

Omar N. Bradley

#17. The greatest communication skill is paying value to others.

Denis Waitley

#18. Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Joseph Roux

#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. When I grew up, my father taught us the value of hard work. He wanted us to enjoy ourselves, but he also wanted to know what it took to be successful. He coached a lot of our sports teams growing up. We weren't very good, but we learned about hard work and enjoying life and your teammates.

Andrew Luck

#21. When you love to run and you train hard enough to really feel it, running is all about freedom. Also, I find that sharing the value of our sport is very important. When I think back on my life, it isn't the winning that I remember so much, it's the people who I met through running.

Doris Brown Heritage

#22. I remember the first time somebody played me Janis Joplin. My friend Donna put on Janis Joplin, and she said, 'You're like her.' At the time, I wasn't even a singer; I was a drummer. I just wanted to play the drums.

Sophie B. Hawkins

#23. Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

#24. If you're looking for a place to rest Cold Mountain is good for a long stay The breeze blowing through the dark pines Sounds better the closer you come And under the trees a white haired man Mumbles over his Taoist texts Ten years now he hasn't gone home He's even forgotten the road he came by

Hanshan