Sport Rivalry Quotes & Sayings

Rivalries don't necessarily mean races being close at major championships. I had a rivalry with Butch Reynolds for many years. I won all the races, but Butch was the world record holder before I came into the sport, he was extremely talented and he was the only other man running 43 seconds. — Michael Johnson

David Garner, an eating disorder specialist, has explained that the best way to gain weight is to go on a diet to lose weight! — Ellen Frankel

What if somebody came along who could teach me how my world works and how to control it What if I could meet a super-advanced ... what if a Siddhartha or a Jesus came into our time, with power over the illusions of the world because he knew the reality behind them And what if I could meet him in person, if he were flying a biplane, for instance, and landed in the same meadow with me. — Richard Bach

In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change. — Nhat Hanh

I'm sorry if ... I get too personal, if I make you uncomfortable, but writing is like one of the seven deadly sins, like Sharing on Mr. Rogers, and once you get the bug you're trapped in The Neighborhood of Make-Believe forever. — Shannon Celebi

Tennis is at an amazing time when you've got two of the best players ever to play the game. You can argue the two very best playing in the same generation. It's a rivalry I think that we've never seen in our sport. — Andre Agassi

A tiny fly can choke a big man. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol

I would pay snakes to bite her. — Chuck Palahniuk

Always more enemies, and fewer friends. Blood gets you nothing but more blood. — Joe Abercrombie

The proof of true love is to be unsparing in criticism. — Moliere

Don't give way to heedlessness or to intimacy with sensual delight - for a heedful person, absorbed in jhana, attains an abundance of ease. — Gautama Buddha

As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city. — Gore Vidal

There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. — Russell Baker

religion is a neurological disorder for which faith is the only cure. — Frank Schaeffer

When our fingers touch a crackle of electricity passes between us. — Cathy Cassidy

The happy people are those who are producing something ... — William Ralph Inge