#sport

Look at the smile of a doctor as he delivers your baby, imagine the thrill as he makes the incision around your tumor. Then ask whether life isn’t just sport. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #humor #life #sport #funny

Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan. ↗

— Timothy Ferriss

#language #sports #tarzan #friendship

Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes. ↗

— Mark Wahlberg

#makes #only #penny #sports #star

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#again #almost #been #career #failed

Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#accomplishments #inspirational #life #soccer #sports

Just remember, the difference between being good versus being great is just a few points, inches, or seconds. ↗

— Bruce H. Jackson

#sport #inspirational

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#basketball #game #sports #sports-inspirational #sportsmanship

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ↗

— George Orwell

#bound #disregard #fair #fair play #hatred

Is it or is it not a matter of importance that a young man starts out in life with an ability to shut his jaw hard and say "I will," or "I will not," and mean it? ↗

— John William Heisman

#football #inspirational #sports #inspirational

Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh! What a stupid game! You must have cheated! You must have used some sneaky, underhanded mindmeld to make me lose! I hate you! I didn't want to play this idiotic game in the first place! I knew you'd cheat! I knew you'd win! Oh! Oh! Aarg! [Calvin runs in circles around Hobbes screaming "Aaaaaaaaaaaa", then falls over.] Hobbes: Look, it's just a game. Calvin: I know! You should see me when I lose in real life! ↗

— Bill Watterson

#calvin #hobbes #humor #humor