Good Quotes

I have always maintained that if you work hard, it won't go waste, as recognition will come to you at some stage, whether in studies or sports. You need to have good intentions and intent to move ahead in life as well as in sports.

~ Suresh Raina

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

~ Hunter S. Thompson

Unless you enjoy life passionately, you cannot be a good artiste. Practise what you like, be it sports or dancing.

~ Sarita Choudhury

I like a few vintage Rolexes, and Panerais are good. I'm not into sports watches - I like chronometers.

~ Jason Statham

I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room.

~ Douglas Coupland

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

~ Rob Lowe

I wasn't good in school. I didn't do sports. I sat in the bedroom and listened to records. Because the Beatles did whatever they wanted to, I took that as a kid and said, 'That's what rock is.'

~ Chris Cornell

Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.

~ Alex Berenson

Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.

~ David Shields

When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moines Register. He was a good sports writer. I became real interested in the contrast between Lute Olson, who was the coach of Iowa at the time, and Ron Maly.

~ David Shields

I want to support kids that not a lot of people believe in. Give them an opportunity to do good in school, play sports and get scholarships.

~ Tim Tebow

I was not good at team sports, I have to say. I'm quite good at individual sports, but I was not good at team sports, so I wasn't good at baseball and football.

~ Tom Ford

I'm not good at a lot of things. I am not good at keeping my room clean. I am not good at eating healthy. I am not good at sports anymore. I used to be! Not so much anymore.

~ Zendaya

I got into sports because that was a way to prove your masculinity. I was good at it.

~ Caitlyn Jenner

When you play sports like tennis, you're alone, and that's a good school for life, but it's also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too - helping others in difficult moments.

~ Jurgen Klopp

I always tell writers that it's good to have an area of expertise. It's a really practical answer, I know, but know about science or about sports or about medicine, so you can work as a science writer or a sports writer. Don't just know about yourself.

~ Meghan Daum

Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.

~ Fabrizio Moreira

Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

~ Drew Carey

Being a celebrity, you always get really good seats to sporting events, but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports.

~ Drew Carey

But sports photography isn't something you just pick up overnight. You can't do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

~ Drew Carey

The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.

~ Dan Jenkins

I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically.

~ John Madden

It will be good fun finding out what sport baby's good at; perhaps it will be something obscure. My parents were fantastic at taking me to training sessions and letting me try lots of different sports, so I want to do the same.

~ Greg Rutherford

There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.

~ Aaron Sorkin

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

~ Shimon Peres

I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.

~ Channing Tatum

I've always kind of had an interest in the drums but nothing else. The drums are the only thing I feel I would be good at, because I'm a very physical person. I've always played sports and stuff. Drums would give me something to do.

~ Taylor Lautner

The day of parochialism in sports is over. The world is too small for what people like to call 'the good old days.' Fans want the best, wherever they come from.

~ Mario Andretti

My chief gifts are - naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.

~ Michael Sheen

I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.

~ Kevin Nealon

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

~ Martina Navratilova

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

~ Martina Navratilova

Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

~ Adrian Tomine

I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

~ Ted Turner

My grandmother is a huge Hawkeyes fan, so I, by proxy, have to be one. I'm more of a professional sports fan, and I've never been a huge college fan, but because of my grandmother, I've gotten into a lot of really good Hawkeye games. So, because I'm a good grandson, I'm a Hawkeye fan.

~ Corey Taylor

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

~ Neil Peart

My kids are good athletes and runners. They run in a bunch of sports.

~ Scott Bakula

I never played sports. I wasn't any good at them.

~ Leighton Meester

Sports movies are a genre that I really respond to, but they can be done really poorly and really fall short. The good ones are just so good and inspiring and make you feel good.

~ David Walton

Good sports facilities are a blessing.

~ Kapil Dev