Top 1200 Sporting Event Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Barcelona, the tournament is, for all the Spanish players, an amazing event. I think is one of the top events on tour because is a historic event with a lot of tradition. A lot of years of the tournament, a lot of great players have been playing there. And it's in a real tennis club.

The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions.

Sporting goods companies pay me not to endorse their products.

I come from a very sporting family and played many sports as a lad.

I trained really badly during the first 10 years of my sporting career.

A sporting track doesn't always mean that it will only have grass on it.

I am convinced that the first lyric poem was written at night, and that the moon was witness to the event and that the event was witness to the moon. For me, the moon has always been the very embodiment of lyric poetry.

I do know that you'll definitely never see me sporting a mustache.

The Olympics, you have to remember, is an event onto itself; it's unlike anything else. It's a multisport event, you have people from all over the world and it has its own special charm, its own special issues. But it's distinct from anything else.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.

It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.

In sporting terms, I'm very satisfied with City - there are less attractive jobs in Europe!

I spent another six years in Europe covering sporting events such as the Tour de France.

The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

Chicks dig a dude who’s sporting the latest eggplant turtleneck styles.

Sporting goods sales have suffered because Americans have become too sedentary.

My sporting heroes were Ken Jones, Stanley Matthews, and Cliff Morgan.

Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

9/11 was just an enormous event in so many senses of the word - I mean, we are still in the "post-9/11 era" and perhaps will be forever? Sometimes it seems like it. It was such a monstrous act of imagination over anything else - the actual fatalities, while awful, were not what distinguished the event from others.

They [the disciples] were testifying to the resurrection, a question of fact, not merely of faith. They were convinced of an event. And their willingness to die for attesting to that event is far more convincing that the willingness of others to die for a mere belief or because of loyalty to a religion or religious leader.

I worked at Big 5 Sporting Goods, selling shoes and stuff like that, for a couple of summers.

All sporting ambition considered, there should always be a relationship to Germany.

My brother Wladimir will be responsible for further sporting successes.

I'm a sporting professional; I don't have a great understanding of tax and legal matters.

Pakistan should be recognised as a sporting nation and not as a terrorist country.

My favourite way of getting ready for a red carpet event is to turn the hair and makeup time into a bit of a pre-party. I use the same artists all of the time, so we know each other so well - so it's a 'hanging with friends' session. Music, lots of laughing, and food - because you must eat before the event.

A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status - all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).

It's quite rare for a group of people to come together for a live event that isn't loud music. A live event that enables thinking to take place, to take place collectively. It's unique to theatre. It's a quality I never want to see diminished.

When you help sportspersons achieve their full potential, you propel the sporting quotient of the entire country.

Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.

One of London's massive strengths is its sporting prowess, its great football teams.

For me it's my biggest sporting achievement being Conor McGregor's sparring partner.

I can't remember when I wasn't running around doing some sort of a sporting activity.

Wives are around a lot longer than your sporting years.

Sporting a six-pack doesn't necessarily mean that one is fit as it tends to reduce one's immunity levels.

One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven’t seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it’s a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I’m in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don’t feel like you don’t know where I’ve been.

Not every woman goes to sporting events to find men, but 2-3 percent of women do.

Our thoughts about an event can have a dramatic effect on how we go through the event itself. When our expectations are low, it's easy to be pleasantly surprised. When they're not, we're vulnerable to painful disappointment. Because of this, many people spend a good deal of effort trying to avoid developing high hopes about anything.

I'm sporting some really blonde hair because I live in Hollywood and I'm an actress.

You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.

Rock 'n' roll... but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field... I was always tending to be in trouble.

My mum's a good runner, so is my granddad. We're a big sporting family.

And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.

Nobody should be owning a gun which does not have a sporting purpose.

I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.

From a long view of the history of mankind, seen from, say, ten thousand years from now, there can be little doubt that the most significant event of the 19th century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics. The American Civil War will pale into provincial insignificance in comparison with this important scientific event of the same decade.

The main event has never been the manifestation; the main event has always been the way you feel moment by moment, because that's what life is.

Climbing is a cross between an athletic or sporting endeavor and the spiritual. I hope it remains that way.

Julio Cesar Chavez is the most important sporting figure we have ever had.

I think it's good for sporting justice that Ronaldo scored twice in the final.

To me, the only reason for guns in civilian hands is for sporting purposes.

Fashion is nothing but wearing what is comfortable and also sporting clothes that make you feel confident.

There's not a better sporting spectacle than an evenly-matched fight.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

I wasn't driven to acting by any inner compulsion. I was running away from the sporting goods business.

I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

Even if you only have 30- or 40,000 people in the grandstands, if you put on a good event for TV and do the things that it takes to have a unique event, that is really what people want. They want unique things.