Sports Sacrifice Quotes

#1. We spend 8 hours a day, for 10 months a year, for nearly 17 years sending our kids to school to prepare them for life.
In all of that time there is never a course in overcoming adversity, goal setting, sacrifice, perseverance, teammates, or family.
I guess that's what wrestling is for.

JohnA Passaro

#2. Close the weak banks and impose serious capital requirements on the strong ones ... You see, it may sound hard-hearted, but you cannot keep unsound financial institutions operating simply because they provide jobs.

Paul Krugman

#3. If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

Groucho Marx

#4. I've always believed that you can be whatever you want to be if you are willing to sacrifice and dedicate yourself.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#5. Close your eyes and turn your face into the wind. Feel it sweep along your skin in an invisible ocean of exultation. Suddenly, you know you are alive.

Vera Nazarian

#6. They who shall enter into [the] joy [of the Lord] shall know what is going on outside in the outer darkness ... The saints' ... knowledge, which shall be great, shall keep them acquainted ... with the eternal sufferings of the lost.

Saint Augustine

#7. Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

Bertrand Russell

#8. Bodybuilding is not just a sport; it's a way of life. If every aspect of your life is not focused on making the sacrifices necessary to build your best physique, you will ultimately fail and never reach your full potential.

Robert Cheeke

#9. I will never sacrifice my morals and ethics for anyone or any win.

Mike Candrea

#10. When I was younger, the people making the sacrifice were my parents. It's not a cheap sport. Luckily, I had parents who made a lot of life sacrifices so I could continue in gymnastics.

Jonathan Horton

#11. I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.

Matt Smith

#12. Team sports, there's always some kind of sacrifice happening ... A team, if we lose, if Michael Jordan has a bad night, you hang it on him a little bit ... but if you lose as a tennis player, you have no one to blame but yourself, and that's a different beast.

Marc Blucas

#13. I have this, this gift, I know that; and I know my obligation to it.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#14. I have a pretty big fund-raising heart.

Azita Ghanizada

#15. What we must understand is that the industries, processes, and inventions created by modern science can be used either to subjugate or liberate. The choice is up to us.

Henry A. Wallace

#16. The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.

Hilary Kornblith

#17. Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.

Viktor E. Frankl

#18. If you sacrifice early, you'll win late.

Charles Haley

#19. It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

Lionel Messi

#20. She hates that word. Nice is what you call ice cream, or a paper doily, or fluffy bunny rabbit print pattern.

Alex Scarrow

#21. No one shuts their laptop after looking at pornography and says, 'What a productive time I just spent connecting with the world!'

Russell Brand

#22. Persistence is important in every endeavor. Whether it's finishing your homework, completing school, working late to finish a project, or "finishing the drill" in sports, winners persist to the point of sacrifice in order to achieve their goals.

Lee Ellis

#23. I don't agree with the idea that you have to live in a bubble and sacrifice all your time to something if you want to succeed. I need to be interested in things outside my sport, and I need to meet new people. For me, judo is an expression of the harmony I achieve in my life.

Ryoko Tani

#24. All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing occurs, they feel extremely disappointed. But the real miracle of meditation is more ordinary and much more useful ...

Sogyal Rinpoche

#25. One of those guys you just want to shove down and lick all over. Which I did, actually. He's nasty in bed, too, never tried some of that shit before. Pierced dick. I shit you not.

Joanna Wylde

#26. Sacrifice counts for a lot in sport. From a young age, I couldn't do the normal things that the boys of my age get to do. Maybe you have a nice car or a nice house, but at times you just want to be a normal guy and you can't.

Mario Balotelli

#27. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

Arthur Ashe

#28. To write incorporeal poems, almost without words. To approximate the impossible, where art disappears and the Word becomes.

Anna Kamienska

#29. As the Russians say: 'If you don't pay attention to politics, politics pays attention to you.

Marc Bennetts

#30. Just as in sports, becoming an elite performer in business requires struggle, sacrifice, and honest (often painful) self-assessment... Learning how to implement these approaches is often what separates a brilliant thinker from a creative want-to-be.

G. Michael Maddock