Sports Fanatic Quotes & Sayings

I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do. — James Roday

I realize my heart is forever Inexperienced. It does fall for the same tricks over and over again — Manasa Rao

It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and fortunate to be part of it. — Dick Vitale

Yet, beloved, there remains, after all, the blackness that is prophecy, the blackness that is inexplicable hope in the face of savage hopelessness...

Beloved, if the enslaved could nurture, on the vine of their desperate deficiency of democracy, the spiritual and moral fruit that fed our civilization, then surely we can name and resist demagoguery; we can protest, and somehow defeat, the forces that threaten the soul of our nation. To not try, to give up on the possibility that we can make a difference, can make the difference, is to give up on our past. on our complicated, difficult, but victorious past. Donald Trump is not our final, or ultimate, problem. The problem is, instead, allowing hopelessness to steal our joyful triumph before we work hard enough to achieve it. — Michael Eric Dyson

People are unpredictable and predictable at the same time: it seems that whenever you want someone to surprise you they remain themselves, and those who were actually OK screw themselves over some way or another. People make stupid decisions on a regular basis but, worse, have stupid reasons for those decisions-because people are broken then forced together again in ways that they were probably never intended to be. — Helen Hiorns

The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects. — Samuel Alexander

For the first time in my life, I became actively interested in a book. Me the sports fanatic, me the game freak, me the only ten-year-old in Illinois with a hate on for the alphabet wanted to know what happened next. — William Goldman

I'm not comfortable with just me, me, me. That's boring. — Chita Rivera

There is no moonlight in the Moon. It is same for the fame! Celebrity shines only from the distance! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I don't know about birds
nor do I know the history of fire.
But I believe that my solitude should have wings — Alejandra Pizarnik

That was it. To be a rolling stone. In the romantic places of the earth. Ready for a fight, a frolic, or a feed. And since I was Irish, since I was Billy Hamill's son, since I was from Brooklyn: a drink too. — Pete Hamill

When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing. — Carine Roitfeld

There are but three events which concern man: birth, life and death. They are unconscious of their birth, they suffer when they die, and they neglect to live. — Jean De La Bruyere

Leave that which is not,
but appears to be. Seek that which is,
but is not apparent. — Rumi

I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me. — Joe Nichols

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere. — Simon Kuper

The contemplation of consciousness - which is the contemplation of no-thing whatsoever - is endlessly fascinating. It's like staring at a candle in a dark night - you find yourself mesmerized by something that is unchanging yet infinitely compelling. You feel drawn into something you don't understand rationally but that your heart or soul grasps completely. You are drawn into it, and as you are drawn into it, the only thing you experience as real is the eternal or timeless nature of Being itself. You find yourself in a state of rapture, because the deepest part of yourself has been released from your ego's endless fears and concerns, and drawn out of the time process altogether. — Andrew Cohen

I'm a Philadelphia sports fanatic. I still watch Phillies games on my iPad, which is basically admitting to having daily torture sessions. — Steve Capus

I don't follow sports that much now, but I was a Phoenix Suns fanatic in the early '90s. — Jesse Eisenberg

Not because you are religious, but because I myself have experienced and felt it keenly, I will tell you that in such moments one thirsts like "parched grass" for faith and finds it precisely because truth shines in misfortune. I will tell you regarding myself that I am a child of the age, a child of nonbelief and doubt up till now and even (I know it) until my coffin closes. What terrible torments this thirst to believe has cost me and still costs me, becoming stronger in my soul, the more there is in me of contrary reasonings. And yet sometimes God sends me moments in which I am utterly at peace. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

There's no other place that exemplifies a fanatic as much as Chicago. I feel like sports fans have bred out of Chicago. — Paul Scheer

I am always trying to eat the right kind of foods that are going to keep me healthy. — Eartha Kitt

Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will become fitter and stronger; that by constant repetition of the same movements he will become more skilful and his muscles more relaxed ... He must be a fanatic for hard work and enthusiastic enough to enjoy it. — Franz Stampfl