Top 1200 Sporting Event Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

The most important influence on a child is the character of its parents, rather than this or that single event.

Davos is about connecting the dots. It is a networking event and I mean that with the very best intention.

We need to temper the idea that this company has to have some earthshaking event every 15 minutes.

If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

I ran track, and my pet event was the 400 meters, and I wanted to be like Cathy Freeman.

I'm a big believer of work/life balance. You need a little down time to recharge to make sure that when you're here, you're really all here. I still have a child in high school, so I go to her sporting events, even if it means leaving work and working again when I get home. I probably should work out a little more than I do.

Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right.

When you get to an event like the Olympic Games, you can put too much pressure on yourself.

The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months.

It is very rare I come to an event where I’m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person.

A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

UFC 151 will be remembered as the event Jon Jones and Greg Jackson murdered.

Be it a private event or a college fest or the occasional wedding sangeet, my visits to Noida are frequent.

I've learned a lot about my game every time I play golf in a men's event.

It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

It is amazing to win an event but to do it with the best standard ever been known in a final is incredible.

The death of Jesus is the pivotal event of human history and everything needs to be understood in light of that.

If surviving assassination attempts were an Olympic event, I would win the gold medal.

A lot of celebrities have a sense of humor, and combined with an outrageous event, sometimes the sky's the limit!

As a father, I believe that involving children in sports at a young age is generally, a wise proposition. I believe that healthy competition is... well... healthy; that sporting events foster a spirit of teamwork that far surpasses the events themselves; and that active participation keeps children moving and is good for their self-esteem.

We make two mistakes about the ancient world. One is to assume they were better than us - that, for instance, the ancient Olympics didn't involve money-making. The opposite mistake, and just as common, is to think our Olympics are much more civilised than ancient sporting competitions. Neither is true.

I want to say to you Indiana people that I owe you a big, big debt of gratitude because nowhere in the world is a sporting group followed more than this state follows basketball. And I just want to thank you for the opportunity that I had to coach in this state - it will always be something that I will cherish.

Technical garments for sporting performance will, I believe, simply become more and more fit for purpose and will perform better and better. What is perhaps more interesting is how this technology will cross over into the fashion mainstream. We already see this trend in everything from footwear to outerwear.

It's a convention, but in horror movies the female characters usually tend to believe easier in a supernatural event.

This is the deal: You win the Royal Rumble match, you go to main event WrestleMania. That's the process.

I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.

If you ask me, everything... every event that takes place changes your life.

The main event isn't bitcoin. It's using the blockchain to disrupt other industries and Wall Street.

I remember when I went to the first Street League event in 2010 in Glendale, Arizona. I was only 15.

The event itself is so extraordinary that another chapter could be added to the Bible to chronicle its significance.

For me, the music is always speaking from the point of view of the characters. Rarely do you score an event.

No doubt about it, in order to win the WSOP Main Event, plenty of stamina is required.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

The autumn of 1850 brought an event freighted with deep significance to me. My mother died.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

The financial crisis that began in the summer of 2007 was an extraordinarily complex event with multiple causes.

If the voice of the brook was not the first song of celebration, it must have been at least an obbligato for that event.

Wouldn't you like to contribute to an event that is part of Christ's own prediction, "I will build my church"?

I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.

For any sport to be sustainable, it cannot survive on government or corporate grants alone. The sporting ecosystem needs more investments from businesses, and businesses need to see the returns from their investment in sport. Cricket has achieved that distinction, but I feel a country of a billion-plus people cannot remain captive to one sport.

I think it would be a great honor to get another Super Bowl, but not just limited to that. Other events, sporting or otherwise, I think New Jersey has an enormous opportunity given our location and our natural resources, our passion generally and specifically for sports, I think we're a natural.

Every event has had its cause, and nothing, not the least wind that blows, is accident or causeless.

All the bystanders at an event worthy of note adopt various gestures of admiration when contemplating the occurrence.

I think GST is a great outcome. There is no ifs and buts about that. It is a transformational event for India.

To me, the Holocaust stands alone as the most horrible human event in modern civilization.

We Americans are not God's covenant people. America has, in any event, no biblical guarantee of perpetuity.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.

I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.

Every event in our lives occurs to teach us something about ourselves.

No matter what you think of him otherwise, there are no two ways about it - Narayana Murthy is inextricably linked to the modern Indian's sense of self. So also is Sachin Tendulkar. Every time he goes out to bat, he carries with him the dreams of a billion people. Like many sporting legends, he is an iconic symbol of our subliminal nationalism.

I think we should have Eurovision every week. It's a really beautiful event, and it's very deep.

You are twice as likely to be struck by lightning as you around to be affected by a terrorist event in the United States.

I don't think rodeo is cruel at all. Bullriding is the only man-animal event that makes sense.

The English press treated the world premiere of my first talking picture as a major event.