Top 1200 Sporting Event Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

In the '30s, every day was an event. And, as much as I love that idea, I think nowadays it's nice to have the differentiation of when you dress up and when you don't.

My Olympic moment from the individual event was that I was really able to enjoy my skating, and so that meant a lot to me, and I didn't portray that accurately.

When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assignments were. I was working on the Tour de France bike race and the Barcelona Olympic Games, and those songs tend to be very big, very bombastic-type music, which is the type of music that I love to write.

I look up to Bernard Hopkins as a fighter. I'm honored to be his co-main event and to be able to give a great performance.

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

I just need to concentrate on each event and accumulate a good score, and hopefully I won't flop in the 800 m. in Gotzis.

Mother's Day is a welcome event in partisan times. Nearly everyone agrees that we should show mothers gratitude.

To me so deep a silence portends some dread event; a clamorous sorrow wastes itself in sound.

The takeover of Harvard in 1805 by the Unitarians is probably the most important intellectual event in American history - at least from the standpoint of education

In the unlikely event that I make it into heaven, I won't be able to enjoy everlasting bliss because part of the pleasure of happiness is its transience.

Even if you're having a snack, enjoying it in a beautiful teacup or on a lovely plate makes it feel like more of an event.

I got a lot of publicity, but it steamrolled. Event organizers weren't used to that kind of behavior, so later, they tightened the rules.

I hate when the major event of a show I watch is spoiled for me. And I'm wracked with guilt when/if I spoil something for someone else.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

The promoter of an event can't take sides. He can't give better conditions to one fighter over the other. Everyone has to be treated with quality.

The lowest point for me was ending up in prison after a violent event. I realised I was way out of my depth.

A pseudo-event ... comes about because someone has planned it, planted, or incited it. Typically, it is not a train wreck or an earthquake, but an interview.

The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion, such as 'Deadline.'

Michael Bohn provides a rare opportunity to experience the American sporting scene in the Roaring Twenties. A constant stream of legendary characters marches across these pages. You’ll meet them all: The Babe, The Four Horsemen, The Manassa Manassas Mauler, The Wheaton Iceman, Bill Tilden, Gertrude Ederle, and Grantland Rice, the sportswriter whose purple prose made them all come alive.

There is no good or bad without us, there is only perception. There is the event itself and the story we tell ourselves about what it means.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

The habit of looking on the bright side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a year.

I love any event in the United States because I treat it like it's my home, my house. And I'm going to protect it.

I didn't even ski halfpipe until I was 14 because the resort where I lived didn't have one. So it wasn't always my favorite event, but I grew into it.

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.

I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20.

I feel like my shows have always been a place where people can wear and be and seem however they want, and it's a heartening event.

Each image suggests an inner reality, a kind of scar of the past, a reflection of an act or an event once lived.

This is a once in a lifetime event. It is very rare to remove 86% of the currency in circulation in one go. The logistics of such an operation are mammoth.

Donald Trump is still hitting all the same notes. He's making the sale. We're hearing from his aides at every event.

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.

You get a show where people are jumping up and dancing, but it's not a critical event in the sense of profound catharsis. Essentially it's celebratory.

When you're playing, every ball seems like the biggest event. When you're sitting back, you can see the overall picture better.

By far the most significant event in finance during the past decade has been the extraordinary development and expansion of financial derivatives.

It would be great to fight on UFC 200 obviously. It's going to be an historic event but the card is getting full quickly.

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

A stray, unthought-of five minutes may contain the event of a life, and this all-important moment - who can tell when it will be upon us?

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

Many are less fortunate than you' may not be a roof to live under, but it will serve to retire beneath in the event of a shower.

The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.

The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.

Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.

A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event.

I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.

What we have to do now is to make the public at large aware that what we're looking at is not a historical event but - and I have to be brutal and I am going to say it - a racket.

I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the CIA stuff right.

Withholding things in a story is no good if you aren't building to something substantial. It becomes foreplay without the main event, and no one wants that.

In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.

It's been 18 months since I won on the European Tour and to win the flagship event, I could not have asked for any more.

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

It does not matter what you know about anything if you cannot communicate to your people. In that event, you are not even a failure. You're just not there.

Making an effort is polite, and getting ready and looking after yourself makes an event more fun.

Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the water now I'll meet three generations of surfers, male and female, everyone sporting a different craft. I started surfing in the 60s and I can tell you it's infinitely more diverse. It might be more crowded but it's also more interesting.

I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

I found my prince - he's a hockey player and we met at an NHL event, the last place I'd ever expect to meet someone, but there he was.

A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.