Top 1200 Sports Illustrated Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.

I was always out playing sports in situations that didn't matter with my friends.

Clean sports becomes an ethical question, but I believe in it.

If sports has anything to do for society, football plays a great role.

But I would like to reach the point where I could cut up an illustrated magazine at random and see to it that the parts would each become a painting. I cannot properly explain it right now. Already now I am searching for the most boring and irrelevant photo material that I can find. And I would like to get to the point soon where this determined irrelevance could be retained, in favor of something that would be covered up otherwise by artifice.

Instead of sports and all that other stuff, I did plays.

Tennis is one of those sports: whatever you put in, you get out.

Theatre sports is the best improv training period.

Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day.

The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.

I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.

There are no outdoor sports as graceful as throwing stones at a dictatorship.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

We were doing sports. It was entertainment. It wasn't like it was investigative reporting.

I consider myself more of a wrestler than a sports entertainer.

We had collaborated with Allen Ginsberg on one of his last projects just before he died in the spring of '97, a book called Illuminated Poems - it was Allen's poems and songs and I illustrated them. Or, I illuminated them with paintings and drawings that bounced off of them. You want the picture to relate to the text without it slavishly regurgitating it or merely illustrating it, because that's redundant. You want to show another angle of what the text is saying.

I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.

One thing I get from competitive sports is that I am fiercely ambitious.

I grew up playing sports and being very active.

Politics generally doesn't mix with sports very well.

I really liked sports and athletic stuff, but I was a total nerd.

One of my main goals is to become a sports broadcaster. That is the ultimate for me.

I hated sports at school. Almost everyone did.

Wrestling in Japan is very much sports based.

Belarus is not a superpower, but we pay a lot of attention to sports.

I've played sports and been active my whole life.

I've not seen my two girls play high school sports.

Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.

It is unfortunate that as a country we don't have this culture of promoting health and sports.

I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.

The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes is an excellent book for student athletes to understand what it takes to be successful. It covers all phases of life, and it is filled with wonderful wisdom. Illustrated by brilliant examples of very successful people, The 7 Practices of Exceptional Student Athletes forces student athletes to use their common sense as they work to achieve their goals. Raven Magwood is a very talented person and an extremely gifted writer.

My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.

I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape.

You don't really grow up until you quit playing sports.

As a kid, I loved contact sports, especially American football and boxing.

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

The WWE is the be-all and end-all of sports entertainment. They just do things right.

You do get injuries in this sport. More than in other sports.

I wear sports clothes because I feel comfortable in them.

You won't find me in a sports bra and low-slung leggings.

I watch sports and cable news. I’m a political junkie, so that’s my interest.

Prejudice hasn't changed to this day, not in golf. Maybe in other sports.

Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't be fun.

I want to stay involved in sports in one way or another.

Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

I'm a Scouts ambassador and I help out with dwarf sports.

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

If you're trying to get into the sports business, you really have to find a niche.

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

I have always been around sports my whole life.

I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.

The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.

Soccer and ping-pong are my two favorite sports to play.

Red Sox versus Yankees is the greatest rivalry in sports.

I do watch sports. How could I not? Just for self-preservation.

That's the great thing about sports - nothing's guaranteed.

I definitely wasn't the kid playing sports. I was super different.

I was a heavy kid, even though I was into sports and very active.

Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind.