Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry McGuigan

I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.

Billy Corgan

I'm sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.

Bill Taylor

Players win games, teams win championships.

Bill Tilden

Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater. When I step on the court I feel like Anna Pavlova. Or like Adelina Patti. Or even like Sarah Bernhardt. I see the footlights in front of me. I hear the whisperings of the audience. I feel an icy shudder. Win or die! Now or never! It's the crisis of my life.

Bill Simmons

You always hear that tragedies put sports in perspective, that they prove we shouldn't care this much about the successes and failures of a bunch of wealthy strangers. I'm going the other way - sometimes, sports put everything else in perspective.

Bill Simmons

I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

Bill Shankly

I never drop a player I only make changes.

Bill Cowher

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

C. S. Lewis

A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee.

Barry McCaffrey

The solution to our drug problem is not in incarceration.

Barry McCaffrey

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

Barry McCaffrey

The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.

Carrie Fisher

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.

Carrie Fisher

It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

Carrie Fisher

Drugs made me feel more normal.

Bill Hicks

How dare you have wino tell me not to do drugs.

Bill Hicks

That's why I always recommend a psychedelic experience because it makes you realize that all you've learned is in fact just learned and not necessarily the truth.

Bill Hicks

not all drugs are good.. some of them are great

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

No one has tamed you and you haven't tamed anyone.Your'e the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I've made him my friend, and now he's the only fox in the world.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Peace dies when the framework is ripped apart. When there is no longer a place that is yours in the world. When you know no longer where your friend is to be found.

Bede Griffiths

God has graced every tradition with insight into the divine mystery, from the most primitive to the most sophisticated-each has a gift to bring to the world.

Beck

My whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche...it's one of the reasons a lot of my generation are always on the fence about things. They're afraid to commit to anything for fear of seeming like a cliche. They're afraid to commit to their lives because they see so much of the world as a cliche.

B. B. King

Kenny Burrell is overall the greatest guitarist in the world and he's my favorite.

B. F. Skinner

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

Bill Sienkiewicz

One of the problems I have with a lot of movies these days is that everything is too well lit. In the world of digital creations there is a tendency to show too much

Bill Sienkiewicz

And within the world that you've created, the physics of that world have to remain constant; they can't be amorphous and changing.

Bill Sienkiewicz

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States