Famous Quotes

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

Earl Warren 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 Earl Warren

• "To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone."

• "All provisions of federal, state or local law requiring or permitting discrimination in public education must yield."

• "In these days, it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he is denied the opportunity of an education."

• "We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place."

• "The most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism."