Quotes of: Professional-sports Keyword

My life as a professional musician is a joyless exercise in futility.

Robert Fripp

I'm the kind of person who always has to be on time and I'm incredibly professional.

Julianna Margulies

Stansfield: Death is... whimsical... today.

Léon: The Professional

There's a lot of maintenance that goes into being a professional singer.

Betty Buckley

I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional.

Winston S. Churchill

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 mig...

Both Flesh and Not: Essays

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport

Inside the opponent’s 45-yard line, facing anything less than fourth and eight, teams are better off going for it than punting. Inside the opponent’s 33-yard line, they are better off going for it on anything less than fourth and 11.* Regardless ...

Scorecasting: The Hidden Influences Behind Sports and How Games Are Won

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points to a team they were supposed to beat. As they headed toward the exits,...

True Believers: The Tragic Inner Life of Sports Fans

And yet, winning is like a welcome drink going down your throat, like a beautiful embrace. It is brilliant while it lasts but it isn't forever. The high eventually melts away and the journey of life begins afresh. The truly remarkable among us visit ...

The Winning Way: Learnings from sport for managers

If the clicker became useless in grown men's hands, no games to watch, no highlights shown, ESPN left with only test patterns and re-runs of Rudy, wouldn't the indignation level be a whole lot higher? If sports, all sports, all levels, were shut down...

Leigh Montville

Enid: How come in all that time I was trying to get you a date, you never asked me out? Seymour: [surprised] You're a beautiful young girl, I couldn't imagine you'd have any interest in me except as an amusingly cranky eccentric curiosity. Enid: At l...

Ghost World

I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.

Magdalena Neuner

It's amazing what we remember as sports fans, right?

Kevin Connolly

Don’t even think about it, Fido.

Sporting Wood

The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

Jean-Claude Killy

Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität

Richard Branson

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be.

Rick Snyder

I didn't aspire to be a good sport; 'champion' was good enough for me.

Fred Perry

Sports is the toy department of human life.

Howard Cosell

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.

Stedman Graham