#sport

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports. ↗

— Martina Hingis

#glad #i #much #other #prettier

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ↗

— Joe Adcock

#aaron #fastball #hank #hank aaron #like

I think that every single person should play sports. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#i #i think #person #play #should

When Edward Gibbon was writing about the fall of the Roman Empire in the late 18th century, he could argue that transportation hadn't changed since ancient times. An imperial messenger on the Roman roads could get from Rome to London even faster in A.D. 100 than in 1750. But by 1850, and even more obviously today, all of that has changed. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#about #ancient #ancient times #argue #century

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo. ↗

— Al Gore

#airplane #like #look #making #nature

As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At the very worst they can mostly provide their own food. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#excellent #farmers #food #goods #land

A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind. ↗

— Ronald Graham

#lot #mind #really #sports #your

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#after #athlete #because #going #life

Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself. ↗

— Stedman Graham

#just #life #part #sports

I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time. ↗

— Breaux Greer

#between #construction #doing #ever #first