Archive for the “Sports Quotes” Category
Quotations and Inspirational Pictures about sports.
- For me, skiing is a physical necessity. I have a need for risk. ~ Jean Marie Messier
- I ski to win. When the day comes that I can’t get myself into a fighting mood anymore, I won’t be able to win and I’ll stop racing. ~ Ingemar Stenmark
- If you aren’t crashing, you aren’t skiing. ~Author Unknown
- If you marry a skier, marry tall – they walk with their knees bent ten months out of the year. ~Author Unknown
- It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. ~ Fridtjof Nansen
- It’s amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody’s in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it’s who wants it the most, and who’s the most confident on his skis. ~ Reggie Crist
- Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. ~ Dave Barry
- Skiing is a dance, and the mountain always leads. ~Author Unknown
- Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown
- Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. ~ Author Unknown
- Switzerland is a place where they don’t like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate. ~ Larry David
- Turn right, turn left, repeat as necessary. ~Author Unknown
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- Yoga refers to traditional physical and mental disciplines originating in India.The word is associated with meditative practices in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.In Hinduism, it also refers to one of the six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, and to the goal toward which that school directs its practices.In Jainism it refers to the sum total of all activities—mental, verbal and physical.~ Wikipedia
- A photographer gets people to pose for him. A yoga instructor gets people to pose for themselves. ~T. Guillemets
- Anyone who practices can obtain success in yoga but not one who is lazy. Constant practice alone is the secret of success. ~Hatha Yoga Pradipika
- Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that’s the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it’s unequaled. ~Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
- Before you’ve practiced, the theory is useless. After you’ve practiced, the theory is obvious. ~ David Williams
- For me, yoga is not just a workout – it’s about working on yourself. ~Mary Glover
- For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve. ~T. Guillemets
- If I’m losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~T. Guillemets
- Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. ~ Buddha
- The most important pieces of equipment you need for doing yoga are your body and your mind. ~ Rodney Yee
- The word yoga comes from Sanskrit, the language of ancient India. It means union, integration, or wholeness. It is an approach to health that promotes the harmonious collaboration of the human being’s three components: body, mind, and spirit. ~ Stella Weller
- The yoga mat is a good place to turn when talk therapy and antidepressants aren’t enough. ~Amy Weintraub
- Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; for it becomes your destiny. ~ Author Unknown
- When the breath wanders the mind also is unsteady. But when the breath is calmed the mind too will be still, and the yogi achieves long life. Therefore, one should learn to control the breath. ~ Hatha Yoga Pradipika
- When you inhale, you are taking the strength from God. When you exhale, it represents the service you are giving to the world. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- Yoga accepts. Yoga gives. ~April Vallei
- Yoga exists in the world because everything is linked. ~ Desikashar
- Yoga has a sly, clever way of short circuiting the mental patterns that cause anxiety. ~ Baxter Bell
- Yoga is 99% practice and 1% theory. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- Yoga is a light, which once lit, will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter the flame. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. ~ Annie Wood Besant
- Yoga is a way to freedom. By its constant practice, we can free ourselves from fear, anguish and loneliness. ~ Indra Devi
- Yoga is about clearing away whatever is in us that prevent our living in the most full and whole way. ~ Cybele Tomlinson
- Yoga is almost like music in a way; there’s no end to it. ~ Sting
- Yoga is bodily gospel. ~Reaven Fields
- Yoga is invigoration in relaxation. Freedom in routine. Confidence through self control. Energy within and energy without. ~Ymber Delecto
- Yoga is possible for anybody who really wants it. Yoga is universal…. But don’t approach yoga with a business mind looking for worldly gain. ~Sri Krishna Pattabhi Jois
- Yoga is really trying to liberate us from … shame about our bodies. To love your body is a very important thing — I think the health of your mind depends on your being able to love your body. ~ Rodney Yee
- Yoga is the fountain of youth. You’re only as young as your spine is flexible. ~ Bob Harper
- Yoga is the perfect opportunity to be curious about whom you are. ~Jason Crandell
- Yoga is the practice of quieting the mind. ~Patanjali
- Yoga Science is not just a scholarly pursuit. It is a moment by moment and thought by thought practical guide for living. ~ Leonard Perlmutter
- Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. ~ B.K.S. Iyengar
- Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one’s being, from bodily health to self-realization. ~B.K.S. Iyengar
- You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state. ~Sharon Gannon
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- Academy: A modern school where football is taught.~ Ambrose Bierce
- All those football coaches who hold dressing-room prayers before a game should be forced to attend church once a week.~ Duffy Daugherty
- A losing football team looks at excuses. A championship football team looks at solutions.~ Jimmy Johnson
- Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates weak ones.~ Darrell Royal
- Football games aren’t won, they’re lost.~ Fielding Yost
- Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.~ George F. Will
- Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.~ Heywood Hale Brown
- Football is a game of errors. The team that makes the fewest errors in a game usually wins.~ Paul Brown
- Football is a game designed to keep coal miners off the streets.~ Jimmy Breslin
- Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell.~ Bo Jackson
- Football is like life — it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.~ Vince Lombardi
- Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.~ Roger Craig
- If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.~ Fran Tarkenton
- In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.~ Arnold H. Glasgow
- Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.~ Joe Theisman
- No star playing, just football.~ Knute Rockne
- One good thing can be said for inflation: without it there would be no football.~ Marty Ragaway
- One of the great disappointments of a football game is that the cheerleaders never seem to get injured.~ Author Unnown
- People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.~ Vince Lombardi
- Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I’m going to complete every pass.~ Ron Jaworski
- Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.~ Frank Gifford
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it’s much more serious than that.~ Bill Shankly
- Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things blocking and tackling.~ Vince Lombardi
- Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.~ Don Shula
- The first ninety minutes of a football match are the most important.~ Bobby Robson
- The only place you can win a football game is on the field. The only place you can lose it is in your heart.~ Darrell Royal
- There’s nothing in this world that comes easy. There are a lot of people who aren’t going to bother to win. We learn in football to get up and go once more.~ Woody Hayes
- The way you get better at playing football is to play football.~ Gene Brodie
- What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion? ~ Jim Murray
- When somebody tells you nothing is impossible, ask him to dribble a football.~ Author Unknown
- When you win nothing hurts.~ Joe Namath
- You guys line up alphabetically by height.~ Bill Peterson
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- A golf ball is like a clock. Always hit it at 6 o’clock and make it go toward 12 o’clock. But make sure you’re in the same time zone. ~ Chi Chi Rodriguez
- By the time you get to your ball, if you don’t know what to do with it, try another sport.~ Julius Boros
- Golf, like measles, should be caught young.~ P. G. Wodehouse
- Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at them.~ Jimmy Demaret
- Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ~ John Updike
- Golf combines two favorite American pastimes: taking long walks and hitting things with a stick. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
- Golf gives you an insight into human nature, your own as well as your opponent’s. ~ Grantland Rice
- Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ~ William Wordsworth
- Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can’t play it. ~ Ted Ray
- Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five. ~ Paul Harvey
- Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course – the distance between your ears. ~ Bobby Jones
- Golf is a good walk spoiled.~ Mark Twain
- Golf is a lot of walking, broken up by disappointment and bad arithmetic. ~ Golf Quotes
- Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill scoured by a whiff of arrogance. ~ Alistair Cooke
- Golf is good for the soul. You get so mad at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.~ Will Rogers
- Golf is life. If you can’t take golf, you can’t take life. ~Golf Quotes
- Golf is like a love affair. If you don’t take it seriously, it’s no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart. ~ Arthur Daley
- Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it’s wrong but you can’t keep away from her. ~ Val Doonican
- Golf is not just an exercise; it’s an adventure, a romance… a Shakespeare play in which disaster and comedy are intertwined. ~ Harold Segall
- Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ~ Jim Bishop
- Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ~ A.A. Milne
- Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.~ Chuck Hogan
- I’d play every day if I could. It’s cheaper than a shrink and there are no telephones on my golf cart. ~ Brent Musburger
- I’m about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That’s the distance my left ear is from my right. ~ Ben Crenshaw
- I’ve spent most of my life golfing – the rest I’ve just wasted. ~ Golf Quotes
- I am the toughest golfer mentally.~ Tiger Woods
- I can airmail the golf ball, but sometimes I don’t put the right address on it. ~ Jim Dent
- I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.~ Rogers Hornsby
- If I can hit a curveball, why can’t I hit a ball that is standing still on a course? ~ Larry Nelson
- If there is any larceny in a man, golf will bring it out. ~ Paul Gallico
- If you break 100, watch your golf. If you break 80, watch your business. ~ Joey Adams
- If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.~ Jack Lemmon
- If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf.~ Bob Hope
- I get to play golf for a living. What more can you ask for – getting paid for doing what you love.~ Tiger Woods
- I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ~ Will Rogers
- I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone’s golf game: it’s called an eraser. ~ Arnold Palmer
- I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.~ Gerald R. Ford
- It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.~ Mark Twain
- It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.~ Robert Lynd
- It is more satisfying to be a bad player at golf. The worse you play, the better you remember the occasional good shot. ~ Nubar Gulbenkian
- It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.~ Bobby Jones
- It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.~ Hank Aaron
- Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.~ Ben Hogan
- The ardent golfer would play Mount Everest if somebody put a flagstick on top. ~ Pete Dye
- The average golfer doesn’t play golf. He attacks it. ~ Jack Burke
- The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. ~ John Updike
- The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.~ Billy Graham
- The real test in golf and in life is not in keeping out of the rough, but in getting out after you are in.~ Zig Ziglar
- There are two things you can do with your head down - play golf and pray. ~ Lee Trevino
- The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can’t see him laughing. ~ Phyllis Diller
- They say “practice” makes perfect ” Of course, it doesn’t. For the vast majority of golfers it merely consolidates imperfection.~ Henry Longhurst
- They say golf is like life, but don’t believe them. Golf is more complicated than that. ~ Gardner Dickinson
- We learn so many things from golf- how to suffer, for instance.~ Bruce Lansky
- When I die, bury me on the golf course so my husband will visit. ~ Golf Quotes
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- A ball player has got to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That is why no boy from a rich family ever made the big leagues.~ Joe Dimaggio
- A baseball fan is a spectator sitting 500 feet from home plate, who can see better than an umpire standing five feet away.~ Baseballs Quotes
- A great catch is like watching girls go by, the last one you see is always the prettiest.~ Bob Gibson
- All the fat guys watch me and say to their wives, ‘See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.’~ Mickey Lolich
- A team of giants needs giant pitchers who throw good ideas but every pitcher needs an outstanding catcher. Without giant catchers, the ideas of the giant pitchers may eventually disappear.~ Max De Pree
- Baseball is a game of inches.~ Branch Rickey
- Baseball is almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.~ Mark Beltaire
- Baseball is a lot like life. The line drives are caught, the squibbles go for base hits. It’s an unfair game.~ Rod Kanehl
- Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.~ Leo Durocher
- Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half if physical.~ Yogi Berra
- Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field?~ Jim Boulton
- Cardinal rule for all hitters with two strikes on them: Never trust the umpire.~ Robert Smith
- Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.~ Tommy Henrich
- Close don’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.~ Frank Robinson
- Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.~ Ray Knight
- Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.~ Babe Ruth
- Fans don’t boo nobodies.~ Reggie Jackson
- Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.~ Leo Durocher
- Hit em where they ain’t.~ Willie Keeler
- If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.~ Phyllis Diller
- I know a baseball star who wouldn’t report the theft of his wife’s credit cards because the thief spends less than she does.~ Joe Garagiola
- In the great department store of life, baseball is the toy department.~ Baseballs Quotes
- I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.~ Gerald Early
- It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.~ Hank Aaron
- See the ball; hit the ball.~ Pete Rose
- Show me a guy who’s afraid to look bad, and I’ll show you a guy you can beat every time.~ Lou Brock
- Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.~ Casey Stengel
- My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.~ Hank Aaron
- Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.~ Robert Frost
- There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit and hit with power.~ Leo Durocher
- The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that’s it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.~ Ty Cobb
- The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.~ Glenn Dickey
- The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.~ Casey Stengel
- Two hundred million Americans, and there ain’t two good catchers among ‘em.~ Casey Stengel
- Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game.~ Jacques Barzun
- You don’t save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow, it may rain.~ Leo Durocher
- You can’t think and hit the ball at the same time.~ Yogi Berra
- You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you too.~ Roy Campanella
- You teach me baseball and I’ll teach you relativity. . . . No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.~ Charles M. Dickinson
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