Sports Trades Quotes

1. "And if that illustration will not move you, here is another: -- We are children now; we feel as children, and we understand as children; and when we are told that men and women do not play with toys, and that our companions will one day weary on the trivial sports and occupations that interest them and us so deeply now, we cannot help being saddened at the thoughts of such an alteration, because we cannot conceive that as we grow up, our own minds will become so enlarged and elevated that we ourselves shall then regard as trifling those objects and pursuits we now so foolishly cherish, and that, though our companions will no longer join us in those childish pastimes, they will drink with us at other fountains of delight, and mingle their souls with ours in higher aims and nobler occupations beyond our present comprehension, but not less deeply relished or less truly good for that, while yet both we and they remain the same individuals as before."
Author: Anne Brontë

2. "There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'"
Author: Arthur Ashe

3. "Think they have any bras in here that can get my babies to lie flat? They're called sports bras and they have a nasty side effect called the uni-boob."
Author: Becca Fitzpatrick

4. "I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio."
Author: Bernadine Dohrn

5. "«Brixie's blog was huge. That had to be it. Brixie had a monster fashion blog. All those Los Angeles girls with their feet on the pedals of daddy's sports car... Speedometers twitched in Milan whenever those girls changed their shoes... And Brixie knew how to make the girls in L.A. change their shoes.Dr. Gustav Y. Svante had warned him about this. This was an Internet thing: "disintermediation."»"
Author: Bruce Sterling

6. "You are going to love the sports here. Snow skiing and water-skiing and rock climbing and all kinds of extreme sports. I give you full permission to hurl yourself off stuff."
Author: Cynthia Hand

7. "Did children want sports cars for parents? No. They wanted Hondas. They wanted to know that the car would start in all seasons."
Author: Dave Eggers

8. "Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body."
Author: David Foster Wallace

9. "Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to think it matters."
Author: David Mitchell

10. "I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a very sports-oriented family. My last year of school, I got involved with playing guitar and singing, and I joined a band and I just decided that year somehow that I was going to play music."
Author: Dean Geyer

11. "I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier."
Author: Dick Schaap

12. "Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
Author: Esther Williams

13. "I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me."
Author: Jack Brickhouse

14. "Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting."
Author: Jack Markell

15. "I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre."
Author: Jack Wagner

16. "I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida."
Author: Jake Owen

17. "Sure, there is an undeniable pleasure in rooting for a winning team and in being able to look down on opposing fans with equal measures of superiority and disdain. But that's also the Ruthian drawback in rooting for the Yankees (along with high ticket prices, overpriced concessions and crude neighbors). The true pleasure in sports comes not from simply winning but from watching a team overcome adversity to win in the end. The joy of sports is never the final destination, it's the journey. It's experiencing the highs and lows, and appreciating those highs all the more because of the awful lows."
Author: Jim Caple

18. "That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity. I think it's great that a kid wants to learn more and wants to be at the peak of learning, especially at that young."
Author: Joe Nichols

19. "After all, we're currently living in a Bizarro society where teenagers are technology-obsessed, where the biggest sellers in every bookstores are fantasy novels about a boy wizard, and the blockbuster hit movies are all full of hobbits and elves or 1960s spandex superheroes. You don't have to go to a Star Trek convention to find geeks anymore. Today, almost everyone is an obsessive, well-informed aficionado of something. Pick your cult: there are food geeks and fashion geeks and Desperate Housewives geeks and David Mamet geeks and fantasy sports geeks. The list is endless. And since everyone today is some kind of trivia geek or other, there's not even a stigma anymore. Trivia is mainstream. "Nerd" is the new "cool."
Author: Ken Jennings

20. "My first waitress job was at Johnny Rockets in New Jersey, and then I waited tables at a sports bar."
Author: Melissa Rauch

21. "Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name."
Author: Nat Wolff

22. "Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography."
Author: Peter Guber

23. "Lolly nods. "Though when is the right time for that? I asked her for a new sports bra since I outgrew my last one and she looked at me as if I'd just asked her to buy me a pony."
Author: Robin Epstein

24. "All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement."
Author: Rose Schneiderman

25. "To look down into crowds is to see bald spots and slipped bra straps before faces and gowns. It is the viewpoint of spiders and kings, of cheap sports seats and God."
Author: Tanya Egan Gibson

26. "If you're a sports star and you say 'faggot' on the courts, you get fined. But if you're in music and you say it 234 times, you get an MTV music award."
Author: Tegan Quin

27. "I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal."
Author: Vijender Singh

28. "I can't say Boston is 'home-home.' It's definitely a place I'm growing accustomed to. It's such a great sports town."
Author: Wes Welker

29. "It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly."
Author: William Sloane Coffin

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