Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Simmons

I pride myself as being a very supportive parent. I go to my daughter's soccer games. I hit most of them. I try to go to all of them.

Bill Shankly

It's a 90 minute game for sure. In fact I used to train for a 190 minute game so that when the whistle blew at the end of the match I could have played another 90 minutes.

Bill Shankly

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

Bill Shankly

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

Bill Shankly

What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.

Bill Shankly

If you are first you are first. If you are second, you are nothing.

Bill Shankly

We absolutely annihilated England. It was a massacre. We beat them 5-4.

Bill Shankly

If a player is not interfering with play or seeking to gain an advantage, then he should be.

Bill Shankly

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Bill Bradley

We realized that no one of us could be as good as all of us playing unselfishly.

Bill Bradley

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous

Aimee Mullins

An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.

Charles Darwin

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

Carol Burnett

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

Earl Nightingale

You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.

Edward Witten

As far as extra dimensions are concerned, very tiny extra dimensions wouldn't be perceived in everyday life, just as atoms aren't: we see many atoms together but we don't see atoms individually.

Bai Ling

I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy with men individually. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side and other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become carefree.

Baha'u'llah

So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Just like in bodybuilding, failure is also a necessary experience for growth in our own lives, for if we're never tested to our limits, how will we know how strong we really are? How will we ever grow?

Dick Vermeil

If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

Babe Ruth

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Alexis Carrel

Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.

Abe Lemons

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

Andre Agassi

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

Chuck Noll

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Bruce Lee

The less effort, the faster and more powerful you will be.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.