Oshmans Sporting Quotes & Sayings

Half of figure skating is opinion, convincing judges. — Scott Hamilton

The ills attributed to an anthropomorphic abstraction called "society" may be laid more realistically at the door of Everyman. Utopia must spring in the private bosom before it can flower into civic virtue, inner reforms leading to outer ones. A man who has reformed himself will reform thousands. — Paramahansa Yogananda

You judge very properly," said Mr. Bennet, "and it is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are the result of previous study?"
"They arise chiefly from what is passing at the time, and thought I sometimes amuse myself with suggesting and arranging such little elegant compliments as may be adapted to ordinary occasions, I always wish to give them as unstudied an air as possible."
Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened with the keenest enjoyment, maintaining at the same time the most resolute composure of countenance, and except in an occasional glance at Elizabeth, requiring no partner in his pleasure. — Jane Austen

We are single-mindedly focused on partnering with the best innovators pursuing the biggest markets. — Marc Andreessen

I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin. — Clint Howard

As far as his contemporaries were concerned, there was no question about his stature in American history. In the extravaganza of mourning that occurred in more than four hundred towns and hamlets throughout the land, he was described as the only indisputable hero of the age, the one and only His Excellency. — Joseph J. Ellis

Map-making had never been a precise art on the Discworld. People tended to start off with good intentions and then get so carried away with the spouting whales, monsters, waves and other twiddly bits of cartographic furniture that the often forgot to put the boring mountains and rivers in at all. — Terry Pratchett

Have I said dumb things? Absolutely, who hasn't? But I have never backed away from being called out on something I did or said wrong. — Curt Schilling

I never understood the concept of showing everything in the trailer. Why go to a movie if there's no surprise? I can't do it like that. — Spike Lee

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. — Herbert Spencer

Combating myopic risk aversion is the most difficult emotional task facing any investor. I know of only two ways of doing this. The first is to check on your portfolios as infrequently as possible. ... The other way to avoid myopic risk aversion is to hold enough cash so that you have a certain equanimity about market falls. — William J. Bernstein