#ports

The sportsman knows that a sport is a recreation, a game, an amusement and a pastime, but his eyes are fixed on a higher goal, on the most important thing in his life, which is his education or his vocation. ↗

— Avery Brundage

#education #eyes #fixed #game #goal

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set. ↗

— Jimmy Cannon

#fan #rabid #set #sports #sports fan

Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition. ↗

— Trishelle Cannatella

#because #competition #i #just #like

You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement. ↗

— Brandi Chastain

#anything #dedicated #excitement #finding #fun

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week. ↗

— David Duval

#certain #freedoms #greater #home #like

I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me. ↗

— Kevin Costner

#appeal #enjoy #get #get a real #given

I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#come #companies #i #language #looking

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#favorite #football #four #got #i

The most important and urgent appeal we have to make is for an immediate cease-fire. Initial reports from the cease-fire talks being held in N'Djamena in Chad are not very encouraging. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#being #cease-fire #chad #encouraging #held

We receive reports now on a daily basis from our own people on the ground in Darfur on widespread atrocities and grave violations of human rights against the civilian population. ↗

— Jan Egeland

#atrocities #basis #civilian #daily #daily basis