Poise From Sports Quotes & Sayings

Hope is a beautiful lie and it requires talent to create it for others. — Karen Maitland

Change is hard, but change is good. — Henry Rollins

Boxing is the best job in the world to let off steam, and people are in trouble when Tyson wants to let off steam — Michael Spinks

On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style. — Martina Navratilova

I don't care one speck. It ain't right, somehow it ain't right to do 'em that way. Hasn't anybody got any business talkin' like that- it just makes me sick. — Harper Lee

Absurdly, I haven't yet got around to saying that football is a wonderful sport, but of course it is. Goals have a rarity value that points and runs and sets do not, and so there will always be that thrill, the thrill of seeing someone do something that can only be done three or four times in a whole game if you are lucky, not at all if you are not. And I love the pace of it, its lack of formula; and I love the way that small men can destroy big men ... in a way that they can't in other contact sports, and the way that t he best team does not necessarily win. And there's the athleticism ... , and the way that strength and intelligence have to combine. It allows players to look beautiful and balletic in a way that some sports do not: a perfectly-timed diving header, or a perfectly-struck volley, allow the body to achieve a poise and grace that some sportsmen can never exhibit. — Nick Hornby

I love being grungy and dirty. — Richard C. Armitage

The inevitableness, the idealism, and the blessing of war, as an indispensable and stimulating law of development, must be repeatedly emphasized. — Friedrich Von Bernhardi

Piper's advantages: she was small, she was quick, and she was absolutely insane. — Rick Riordan

this book. I will try to repay all of you with sustenance — Amy Tan

The best way to support the troops is to not send them off to die in the first place. And the second best way to support them only to send them off to die when you absolutely have to. And the only way to know that you've done that is to talk about it, debate it, examine it, and make damn sure. — Barry Lyga