Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Moore

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

Alan Jackson

Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just regular people who live in small towns. They grow up and try to raise families and have a job and go to church and play softball. It's that way everywhere.

Dave Barry

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

Catherine Bell

When all the girls were getting all made up and getting into all that girl stuff in junior high I was out playing softball or touch football with the guys.

Beverly Johnson

Rocks make no compromise for sex... rock climbing is not like some sports, where it is made easier for women; or sports like, say, softball, which is only baseball for soft people. On a rock, everything is equal.

Dawn Staley

A lot of people notice when you succeed, but they don't see what it takes to get there.

David Duval

Confidence comes from hard work. It comes from facing different situations and making putts. It comes from knowing you've worked on the right things, so when you get under the gun, you can execute what you've practiced.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I believe in the philosophy of staying hungry. If you have a dream and it becomes a reality, don't stay satisfied too long. Make up a new dream and hunt after that one and turn it into a reality.

Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

Don Yaeger

In sports, championships often define a person's legacy.

Peter Steele

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Tora Berger

When I was about 18, I started to think that I could have a long sporting career.

Jerry Seinfeld

I think of myself more as a sportsman than I do an artist.

Nikki Reed

I'm into outdoor sports like hiking, windsurfing, water-skiing.

Stephan James

Growing up, I was always into sports - basketball and volleyball - but I wasn't really a runner.

Larry King

Sports are my favorite. It's the first thing I turn to every day.

Wilson Bethel

I do like all different kinds of sports and stuff. I've taken up gymnastics and slacklining - you know, tightroping, basically.

Pete Rose

You don't dominate any sport when you're over 40.

Brooks Robinson

If your're not practicing, somebody else is, somewhere, and he'll be ready to take your job.

Samuel Butler

Don't learn to do, but learn in doing.

Alan Cohen

You are doing better than you think you are.

Walter Elliot

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.

William Shakespeare

To unpathed waters, undreamed shores.

Alex Walker

We're not too worried about this one. We wanted to win and should have, but this is just going to be motivation for state.

Tina Brown

Give Obama a script he has made his own, and he is the motivational speaker to end all speakers. Tony Robbins cloned with Honest Abe.

Robert Kiyosaki

Often, in the real world, it's not the smart that get ahead but the bold.

Robert Kiyosaki

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.