#port

Champions keep playing until they get it right. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#champions #get #keep #playing #right

Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows. ↗

— Dave Barry

#sports #humor

You don't just want to beat a team. You want to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see your face again. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#sports

I came home one night, some month ago, and I went to the closet in my bedroom...and a moth ate my sports jacket. He was laying on the floor, nauseous, y'know. ↗

— Woody Allen

#sports

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left. ↗

— Yogi Berra

#sports

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#make #man #more #opportunities #than

We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#opportunity #work #work

The four stages of acceptance: 1. This is worthless nonsense. 2. This is an interesting, but perverse, point of view. 3. This is true, but quite unimportant. 4. I always said so." (Review of The Truth About Death, in: Journal of Genetics 1963, Vol. 58, p.464) ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#dispute #haldane #opportunism #science #self-contradiction

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn? ↗

— Jane Austen

#sports

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying. ↗

— John Green

#john-green #support-group #tfios #state