Funniest Athlete Quotes & Sayings

We cannot resist everything; we can only choose the forces to which we will submit. — Pauline Ashwell

College stirred in her a certain contempt for virtues like kindness and persistence. She would have appeared to have been a kind and persistent person herself, but a steady diet of Antonioni films and an introductory course on existentialism had awakened her to the fact that she wanted more. — Garth Risk Hallberg

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us. — Richard J. Corman

He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret. — Kassandra Cross

When we care for others our own strength to live increases. When we help people expand their state of life, our lives also expand. Actions to benefit others are not separate from actions to benefit oneself. Our lives and the lives of others are ultimately inseparable. — Daisaku Ikeda

Once long ago beneath the stars, Above the rented rooms and bars. — Timothy Muller

Throughout all of human history we've enjoyed certain benign circumstances: an envelope of atmosphere, an envelope of temperature. A kind of resilience that if you cut down trees, then they'll grow back. You take fish, they recover. You put stuff into the atmosphere that you know is not good for us, but we can still breathe. We haven't awakened, generally, to the sense of urgency that does exist. — Sylvia Earle

I like when you feel like you arrive in a very different place, with a different ordering of the reality you normally think of. — James Turrell

I'll just tell you the way it is. You ask me what time it is and I'm gonna tell you how to build a clock. — Dick Dale

The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment. — Willi Smith

Understanding transforms, it does not sublimate. If you understand, anger disappears and the same energy becomes compassion. Not that you sublimate: anger simply disappears, and the energy that was involved, invested in anger, is released and becomes compassion. When you understand hate, hate disappears and the same energy becomes love. Love is not against hate
it is absence of hate. — Rajneesh