Quotes about "Sports & Competition"

Almost any football play, even an off-tackle slant by a running back, offers the balletic beauty of athletic skill and the punishing drama of physical collision. ”

I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz. ”

Pence is the very personification of the career politician. With the exception of a few years doing talk radio and television shows, he has done nothing but run for office, winning all but the first two times. ”

Like getting into a bleeding competition with a blood bank. ”

I'm not a great director or an auteur; I'm an ensemble director. I do think I can get wonderful performances out of actors. ”

You act in a movie, and at the end of the day, the director and editor decide what your performance is. ”

David has asked me, a number of people have asked me and said, What performance do you like best or what's the best film you've made and so on and I don't really have any hesitation that the film I'm least embarrassed by and ashamed of or uneasy about is Shadowlands. ”

The greatest footballers take the sport into the world of art, of performance. ”

Young artists, I really love to see us winning. ”

You have to channel the interpretation and performance into 100 people. And with the audience, the critics. ”