#sport

To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#feed #his #holy #jesus #living

As mayor of San Francisco, I will provide the vision and work hard to make San Francisco a beautiful, well-planned city with excellent housing and transportation options. ↗

— Gavin Newsom

#city #excellent #francisco #hard #housing

I don't want to have to say, Honey, you know, could you turn off the sports channel because I'm not a big sports fan, and I don't love the television being on just for the sake of turning on. I'd like turning on for some thing specific. ↗

— Lynn Redgrave

#being #big #channel #could #fan

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#sports #art

When a shepherd goes to kill a wolf, and takes his dog to see the sport, he should take care to avoid mistakes. The dog has certain relationships to the wolf the shepherd may have forgotten. ↗

— Robert M. Pirsig

#relationships #shepherd #sport #wolf #art

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose ↗

— Winston Churchill

#leisure #recreation #sport #design

Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream. ↗

— James Ross

#coach #family #golf #inspiration #sports

Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids. ↗

— Jim Sensenbrenner

#example #many #only #professional #professional athletes

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#sportswriters #writing #imagination

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take...Wayne Gretzky Take the Shot(s) ↗

— Shelley K. Wall

#fbi #romance #romantic-suspense #sports #suspense