Sports Books Quotes

#1. When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.

Tony Dungy

#2. Everlasting bonds of the women of this family. It served to remind us of why we'd flocked back to this city. I always appreciated the time set aside to remember just how much we needed each

A.L. Jackson

#3. While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.

Jerry B. Jenkins

#4. Radio, books, sports-so many means to spend time, but what I like most is the leafy sunshine amidst the Debdaru.

Sukanta Bhattacharya

#5. Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

Adrian Tomine

#6. The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.

Rob Walton

#7. More sports for everyone, group spirit, fun and you don't have to think, eh? Organize and organize and superorganize super-super sports. More cartoons in books. More pictures. The mind drinks less and less.

Ray Bradbury

#8. She - philosophy is equally helpful to the rich and poor: neglect her, and she equally harms the young and old.

Horace

#9. One may as well begin with Helen's letters to her sister.

E. M. Forster

#10. I made an executive decision in college when I learned how behind I was in the world of books, films, and music because of my rural upbringing. I really reduced the amount of time that sports took up in my life.I still have some Faulkner to get through.

Nick Offerman

#11. As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.

A. Edward Newton

#12. As a kid I was fascinated with sports, and I loved sports more than anything else. The first books I read were about sports, like books about Baseball Joe, as one baseball hero was called.

Robert Jay Lifton

#13. Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

John Burnside

#14. Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.

Ernie Harwell

#15. I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.

Chloe Bennet

#16. Most remember the groundbreaking first in sports; few remember the third or fourth to follow in those tracks. That's not downplaying anyone's achievements but rather recognizing that there comes a time when simply being there is no longer good enough for the record books.

LZ Granderson

#17. For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory's The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.

Anita DeFrantz

#18. Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

John Desmond Bernal

#19. Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

Bernard Williams

#20. Loneliness is one thing, solitude is another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#21. He planned for his son or daughter to have three or four toys, minimal sports equipment, and a thousand books. He didn't care for the rhymed nonsense of Dr. Seuss, but preferred anything that instilled basic knowledge sets. He could abide a talking animal, but not an inanimate object that spoke.

John Brandon

#22. I was never really a nerd. I'm not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I'm a big movie and music buff. And I'm into sports.

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#23. I can't divorce myself from my childhood. I try to write as much fiction as I possibly can, but there are so many things that are touchstones of my childhood like being on the swim team and playing soccer and the particularities of sports season and environments that make their way into my books.

Jeff Kinney

#24. I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

William Landay

#25. On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

Soren Kierkegaard

#26. I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport.

Jonathan Weeks

#27. My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

Stephanie Miller

#28. Not everybody is looking for a boyfriend with a sports car.

Haruki Murakami

#29. I didn't like books where people played on a sports team and won a bunch of games, or went to summer camp and had a wonderful time. I really liked a book where a witch might cut a child's head off or a pack of angry dogs might burst through a door and terrorize a family.

Daniel Handler

#30. They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.

Cleo Moore

#31. I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.

Todd Lowe

#32. Perhaps that wasn't the brightest parenting decision that I've made in the last ten years." -- (From TRADING MANNY, on letting my 7-year old son emulate Manny Ramirez)

Jim Gullo

#33. Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

David Bergen

#34. I grew up thinking that I would become a fighter pilot and was fascinated by aircrafts as I had grown up around that. But my father encouraged me to not become an Air Force person, given the varied interests I had, be it books, movies, sports or fighter flying.

Kapil Sharma

#35. Like books, sports give people a sense of having lived other lives, of taking part in other people's victories. And defeats. When sports are at their best, the spirit of the fan merges with the spirit of the athlete.

Phil Knight

#36. When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.

Andrea Davis Pinkney

#37. Be fair. Play hard.

Dan Venezia

#38. A trip to the market in the morning to buy bread, an afternoon spent reading in a cafe - nothing was routine; a strange place helped you find the poetry in everyday life.

Brian Morton

#39. There is not a piece of science, but its flank may be turned tomorrow.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#40. I love being a businessman much more than being a hacker.

Kim Dotcom