Top 29 Sports Figures Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Entertainers and sports figures achieve fame and wealth but find the world empty and dull without the solace and stimulation of drugs.
Mario Cuomo
#3. Joe Louis and I were the first modern national sports figures who were black ... But neither of us could do national advertising because the South wouldn't buy it. That was the social stigma we lived under.
Jesse Owens
#4. I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.
Chuck Lorre
#5. There weren't any sports figures that I idolized because I didn't really believe in myself back then or think that I could make it here. There were some regular people in my neighborhood that I looked up to growing up but that was it.
Carmelo Anthony
#6. Kids tend to look up to sports figures and entertainers, probably more than they should, but I've tried to use that in a positive way.
Warren Moon
#7. Sports figures are to the '70s what movie stars were to the '60s.
Andy Warhol
#8. Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
Philip Kerr
#9. The Tonight Show didn't seem like an actual job that you could have. All you remember is you watched Johnny Carson, and you never thought he would retire.
Jimmy Fallon
#11. There are ten commandments, right? Well, it's like an exam. You get eight out of ten, you're just about top of the class.
Mordecai Richler
#12. Over the years, many producers have come and gone, and screenplays were written and abandoned. It's the Hollywood process. It's hard to get things done.
Lawrence Blume
#13. There is an element of luck, there is an element of trial and error, sometimes you fail, sometimes you succeed. It's not as beautifully simple as it may seem when we are talking about it.
Lakhdar Brahimi
#14. The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.
Kevin Hart
#15. Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
Marv Levy
#16. My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football ... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport.
Camille Paglia
#17. In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.
Jose Carreras
#18. In affluent communities, where each member is keenly aware of his or her place within the Byzantine order, attracting the right friends is a blood sport. Chumming up to influential figures who are in a position to help can determine the course of an entire life.
Jamie Johnson
#19. I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.
Leander Paes
#20. If I do get nervous for a game, they usually go away after the first play. For the Super Bowl, it never went away.
Ben Roethlisberger
#21. If one had the smallest vestige of superstition in one, it would hardly be possible to set aside completely the idea that one is the mere incarnation, mouthpiece or medium of an almighty power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#22. My parents were so relaxed by the time I was growing up that I got away with a lot more.
Rose Byrne
#23. The only things government can do are regulate and redistribute, prohibit and penalize, confiscate and command. Are these the things that liberty is made of? Somebody else's money and an endless list of Thou Shalt Nots?
James Bovard
#25. Music is about textures as well as melody.
Ken Hill
#26. Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.
Dominique Moceanu
#27. Torque was the greatest thing in the world, as far as Lina was concerned.
Jaleigh Johnson
#28. If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
Tom Cruise
#29. I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.
Arnold Palmer
