People Quotes

Pfizer's actually teamed up with my nonprofit organization, which is called Adaptive Action Sports. I cofounded this organization in 2005 to help people with physical disabilities get involved in action sports, go snowboarding, skateboarding.

~ Amy Purdy

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

~ Bernie Mac

I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'

~ John Madden

People forget that track and field is one of the hardest sports because we compete against all the world. There are many sports when you are up against only 15 or 20 countries.

~ Greg Rutherford

I like Barack Obama as a person. He's articulate, he knows sports, his brother-in-law's a coach. He always has the athletes to the White House. But I don't know about some of his policies and some of these people in Congress.

~ Pete Rose

There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

~ Curt Schilling

Some of the most racist things that I've ever heard come out of people that are on the air at ESPN. There are some of the biggest racists in sports commentating, and you take it for what it is.

~ Curt Schilling

I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

I'm not a real sports guy, but I check ESPN.com just so I know what people are talking about.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.

~ Ricky Williams

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

~ Martina Navratilova

I've given many lessons in many sports over the years to many different people.

~ Martina Navratilova

Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.

~ Andy Murray

Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.

~ Ashley Wagner

People have called me Superman my whole life. In various sports, that seems to be the common theme. My favorite superhero is actually the Incredible Hulk. He's the only superhero that can't die.

~ Robert Griffin Iii

The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

~ Rei Kawakubo

Swimming and all other sports have got to get to that place where you have the trust of the people watching it.

~ Adam Peaty

If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

~ Charlie Pierce

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

~ Barbara Walters

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

~ Gabe Newell

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

~ Earl Warren

People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right.

~ Michael Lewis

I think everybody has something that takes them away or makes them happier. To some people it's baseball or sports or knitting or the movies.

~ Sutton Foster

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

~ Al Mcguire

I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.

~ Ed Skrein

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

~ Carl Sagan

For me, architecture is not just creating a space to protect people but to make them dream as well.

~ Mario Botta

People need to know that they have all the tools within themselves. Self-awareness, which means awareness of their body, awareness of their mental space, awareness of their relationships - not only with each other, but with life and the ecosystem.

~ Deepak Chopra

I think a lot of the American people feel more than a little disappointed that the high-water mark for human exploration was 1969. The dream of human space travel has almost died for a lot of people.

~ Elon Musk

I love building spaces: architecture, furniture, all of it, probably more than fashion. The development procedure is more tactile. It's about space and form and it's something you can share with other people.

~ Donna Karan

One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.

~ Leroy Chiao

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.

~ Tadao Ando

An architect must remember that the people working or living in his building need space - to dream, to be quiet, to find beauty somewhere.

~ Christian De Portzamparc

Starbucks is the last public space with chairs. It's a shower for homeless people. And it's a place you can write all day. The baristas don't glare at you. They don't even look at you.

~ Mike Birbiglia

Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.

~ Christie Brinkley

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

~ George Harrison

Cinema is a thankless industry where sometimes to appear on the cinematic scenery is a thing for late bloomers and people who are very patient. The places are accounted, and the space is often unwelcoming. Money is rare, and independent voices are muted by the almost complete absence of risk takers.

~ Xavier Dolan

The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

~ Chinua Achebe

Obviously for some people there is a big connection between music and the way you can create a space.

~ Zaha Hadid

Circles create soothing space, where even reticent people can realize that their voice is welcome.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley