Famous Quotes

"Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society."

A. Bartlett Giamatti on Sports

More quotes about Sports

• "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 on Sports

• "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "Golf is a good walk spoiled."

  Mark Twain on Sports

• "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

  Hunter S. Thompson on Sports

• "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

  Henry David Thoreau on Sports

More quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

• "Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."

• "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."

• "A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching."

• "There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind."

• "Teachers believe they have a gift for giving it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building."