Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment. — Avery Brundage
I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment. — Gregg Easterbrook
I am simply the very best sports entertainer — Shawn Michaels
The entertainment is in the presentation. — John McTiernan
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. — Frank Zappa
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions. — Phil Knight
That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment. — Vince McMahon
Pro wrestling has always been ingrained into American culture. It was one of the first things that was ever on television, so everybody watched it. — CM Punk
Boxing is entertainment, so to be successful a fighter must not only win but he must win in an exciting manner. He must throw punches with bad intentions. — Cus D'Amato
Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt. — Andy Rooney
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
How do we merge entertainment and education? We live in a world where entertainment wins, but if entertainment can have an educational heart, then we can really change people's lives. — Jay Shetty
No doubt about it. The reality is, there’s nothing fake, obviously, like pro wrestling, and it is the most hard-core, full-contact event in the world. — Dana White
Short Sports Entertainment Quotes
The Internet is all about accessing entertainment. — Kim Dotcom
Well, the world of entertainment and leisure is gigantic. — Jensen Huang
I'm a huge sports fan. — Marc Anthony
I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have. — Bob Stoops
People try to compete with the UFC but we're the best at what we do. — Dana White
I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed. — Frank DeFord
Wrestling... what men do during boys basketball season. — Dan Gable
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Sports Ending Quotes
Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning. — George Lincoln Rockwell
My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. — Duffy Daugherty
Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym. — Christie Brinkley
Life is better when you're laughing.
If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and that would have been the end of my sporting career. — Roman Sebrle
We know that hockey is where we live, where we can best meet and overcome pain and wrong and death. Life is just a place where we spend time between games. — Fred Shero
History shows us that the people who end up changing the world - the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries - are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses. — John Eliot
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. — P. G. Wodehouse
To see the glory in sport, where somebody comes from behind and does something, sinks a shot in the last second or throws a touchdown pass or hits a home run, there is a beauty in that, and at the end of the day, that's why we love sports more than anything else. — Frank DeFord
I can see the carrot at the end of the tunnel. — Stuart Pearce
Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind. — Bruce Lee
The Entertainment Industry Quotes
Moving forward, the most successful people in the entertainment industry will be 50 percent social and 50 percent traditional, so working with Disney and being super traditional, it brought a whole different audience to me. — Jake Paul
I want to be the biggest entertainer in the world. That's my deal. I'll do whatever it takes to get that. — Logan Paul
He [George Orwell] would not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry. — Cyril Connolly
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
I studied everyone in the business of entertainment: Dr. Dre, Diddy, everyone. Rob Dyrdek was big for me. He would get 2 million views a week on 'Rob and Big,' and from that sprung everything: DC shoes, Monster Energy, 'Fantasy Factory,' everything. — Jake Paul
Hospitality doesn’t belong just in the hospitality industry—restaurants, hotels, cruise lines, tourism—but in every industry, in every company, in every transaction. — Jeff Lawson
I think the industry brings out probably the best individuals in the sport that can encourage and motivate people to be all they can be. — Martyn Ford
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
From this entertainment industry, may the gods of language protect us. — David Antin
When an industry leader takes a shot at you in the press, that’s one way to know you’ve arrived. — Cliff Lerner
[The] greatest investment reward comes to those who by good luck or good sense find the occasional company that over the years can grow in sales and profits far more than industry as a whole. — Philip Arthur Fisher
Democracy in many parts of the world is undergoing a very deep crisis. Politics is becoming a branch of the entertainment industry. People vote not for the best leader, but for the funniest candidate. — Amos Oz
Sporting Events Quotes
I'm not sure what it was like to walk into the Coliseum, but I bet it was something like this. The best place in the world to watch a sporting event. — Wright Thompson
Squash has the credentials to become an olympic event and our goal is to see the sport in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. We are working towards this and will keep trying even if our bid is not successful. — Jahangir Khan
There is no sports event like Opening Day of baseball, the sense of beating back the forces of darkness and the National Football League. — George Vecsey
Victims love entertainment. Leaders love education.
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way. — Fran Drescher
Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls. — Richard Attias
Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport. — Serge Schmemann
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame. — Oscar Wilde
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose. — Sandy Lyle
You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting. — Jeff Foxworthy
Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life. — Daniel Levitin
Sports In General Quotes
We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general. — Jeremy Roenick
I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress. — Cara Delevingne
Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead — Roger Bannister
Victims love entertainment, leaders love education.
The more I practice, the luckier I get. — Jerry Barber
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter. — Dave Barry
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
I can be a voice. I can use my platform to help the younger generation. I think it's really important for them to understand how to do things the right way, and not just in sports, in life in general. — Allyson Felix
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. — Roger Bannister
The general definition of being muscle-bound is that you have so many muscles that you can't move freely. I don't know of any bodybuilder in that category; in fact, many of them are quite active in other sports. — Arnold Schwarzenegger
I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. — Kevin Costner
The name on the front is a hell of a lot more important than the one on the back. — Herb Brooks
Great moments are born from great opportunities. — Herb Brooks
If youre not failing once in a while, it probably means youre not stretching yourself.
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die. — Babe Ruth
In my life, I've been a movie star, a rock star, and a sports star, all wrapped up into one-and worked harder at it than anybody else. — Ric Flair
This is your time. Their time is done. It's over. I'm sick and tired of hearing about what a great hockey team the Soviets have. Screw 'em. This is your time. Now go out there and take it! — Herb Brooks
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to. — William Landay
When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you. — Kevin Costner
Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them. — Kevin Costner
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. — Lou Gehrig
Sports Football Quotes
Football is the only sport where you put people together, it doesn't matter if you are rich, or poor, or black, or white. It is one nation. This is the beauty of football. — Pele
Football is just a game. What matters is what you play for. — Ernie Davis
Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to. — Henry Van Dyke
When you start supporting a football club, you don't support it because of the trophies, or a player, or history, you support it because you found yourself somewhere there; found a place where you belong. — Dennis Bergkamp
Greatness is a lot of small things done well. Day after day, workout after workout, obedience after obedience, day after day. — Ray Lewis
It's not the will to win that matters-everyone has that. It's the will to prepare to win that matters. — Bear Bryant
Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man. — Pele
The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven. — Knute Rockne
The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb. — Knute Rockne
If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later. — Bob Paisley
Popular Entertainment Quotes
The road goes on forever and the party never ends. — Robert Earl Keen
I’m always proud to be popular with the fans. I try to smile and do my best. If they like it, it’s even better. — Antoine Griezmann
The British brand is so popular particularly in the US that they put the union jack flag on top of beer bottles because it sells. — Liz Truss
It is almost a truism that nothing kills a money-making opportunity faster than its widespread popularity. — Thomas Phelps
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. — W. H. Auden
Riot – A popular entertainment given to the military by innocent bystanders. — Ambrose Bierce
In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. — George Ade
Oh look, yet another Christmas TV special! How touching to have the meaning of Christmas brought to us by cola, fast food, and beer... Who'd have ever guessed that product consumption, popular entertainment, and spirituality would mix so harmoniously? — Bill Watterson
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. — Lord Melbourne
My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it. — William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Sports Team Quotes
Winning as a team is better than anything. It's great to share success. — Jim Harbaugh
A vital team characteristic is the ability to overcome adversity. Any team acquires experience and endurance as it learns to fight back. This in turn builds the kind of character which seldom crumbles at a time of crisis or testing. — Tom Landry
The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot. — Bill Russell
When building a team, I always search first for people who love to win. If I can't find any of those, I look for people who hate to lose. — Ross Perot
The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together. — Lisa Fernandez
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are. — Ara Parseghian
If you begin to think business whether you own it or work for it like you would a well managed sports team you will learn a lot of very interesting lessons — Strive Masiyiwa
The most important thing in coaching is communication. It's not what you say as much as what they absorb. — Red Auerbach
It's not about rugby, it's about young men. It's not about building a championship team, it's about building championship boys. Boys who will be forever strong. — Larry Gelwix
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
Sports Stars Quotes
You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory. — Eunice Kennedy Shriver
The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport — Walt Frazier
Living in Dallas, I root for the Mavericks and the Stars and the Cowboys, but I've always pulled for the Chicago Cubs. I enjoy watching them play. — Lee Trevino
There are many stars and a few super-stars in sport. There are champions who bag a coronet now and then, and there are others who dominate some game year after year. In other words there are Bobby Jones and Helen Wills. — Grantland Rice
My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt. — Chuck Nevitt
The job now is to institutionalize all of that [Vatican finances], and I wouldn't bet against Cardinal [George] Pell, who hasn't shied away from contact sports since his days as an Australian-rules football star. — George Weigel
A baseball field must be the most beautiful thing in the world. It's so honest and precise. And we play on it. Every star gets humbled. Every mediocre player has a great moment. — Jim Lefebvre
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods. — Gary Player
I love my fans in Philadelphia, but this is the hardest place in the world to play in. And I think it's the hardest place to play in to be a superstar. Just to be the No. 1 guy. All eyes on you - because everybody wants you to be perfect, but not themselves. — Allen Iverson
While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area. — Jerry B. Jenkins
Entertainment Business Quotes
Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself. — Max Keiser
The whole format of entertainment that I did seems to be fading away. The music business of today is completely different when you see the videos and the music. — Bobby Vinton
I want to become an entertainment, tech, and business mogul just in general. — Jake Paul
In business, one should never take anything for granted. Your fortune can change in five minutes. — Koos Bekker
Building a successful business is no longer about B2B or B2C. It’s about P2P, those people-to-people relationships. – Pat Flynn — Pat Flynn
Currently, e-commerce is the segment of our internet business which is growing the fastest and it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. — Koos Bekker
The cards are stacked in your favor when you reinvest every penny in your business. — Vladimer Botsvadze
I love the restaurant business because it’s all about making people happy and bringing them together over good food. — Glen Bell
Everyday hit every wave, like I’m Hawaiian. I don’t surf the net, no I’ve never been on MySpace, too busy letting my voice vibrate, carving out my space in this world. — Jay-Z
You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it. — Otis Redding
People play games seriously. People host tournaments. People watch other people play and listen to broadcasters talking about it. The kind of entire ecosystem we see around other sports and forms of entertainment has formed around games as well. — Jensen Huang
More girls are taking up sport and realising it’s a legitimate option for them to forge a career. — Ellyse Perry
Fighting is a very emotionally draining sport. I don’t want to waste time on drama beforehand. — Holly Holm
I do not think any thinking individual buys a sports franchise, or an English football club, to make money. — John W. Henry
I believe almost any sports fan would purchase a club, if they had the means. — John W. Henry
In Britain, we don’t appreciate people who have been a major success in sport. It is grudgingly given to you. — Stephen Hendry
For me, the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn’t choose my media life. — Joanna Jedrzejczyk
I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. — Jensen Huang
I happen to believe that video games will be the largest sport and entertainment in the world. The reason for that is a video game can be every sport. You can be anybody. — Jensen Huang
For me, football is more than a sport, just look at the impact it has on society. — Kylian Mbappe
Pro wrestling is not fake; it's sports entertainment. We go out there and we perform, and a lot of what we do out there is real, but we're not going to insult anyone's intelligence - there is a predetermined winner. It's just the fans don't know who it is, and that's what makes it so intriguing. — Kurt Angle
It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley
Mourinho is a coach of titles, not football. Or rather, not a football coach if we understand the sport is a spectacle or entertainment for those who watch it, either at home or live in the stadium. — Johan Cruijff
Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude. — John Travolta
It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it. — John Cena
Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good. — Stan Lee
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical fitness and mental prowess. — Nita Ambani
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. — Jack Brickhouse
What makes it all worthwhile is we just play for the sheer enjoyment of entertaining people and... make our families and the team we played on and the people watching, proud of what we did. — Bobby Hull
If we would spend on education half the amount of money that we currently lavish on sports and entertainment, we could provide complete and free education for every student in this country. — Benjamin Carson
UFC is not a competitor to the WWE because we are entertainment and UFC is competitive sport. It's very different. — Stephanie McMahon
Earlier in this century, philanthropy often flowed from the wills of dead industrialists. In recent decades, it's as likely to have come from a very alive business leader, entertainer, artist or sports star. The most effective of these patrons begin the process of giving by asking what they care about passionately. — Michael Milken
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me. I like the 'let's forget our troubles and have some excitement' approach. I'm convinced you can combine this with reporting integrity and accuracy. — Jack Brickhouse
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining. — Ice Cube
I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports. — Eddie George
As blacks, all we got is sports and entertainment. That's the only way out the hood sometimes. — Trey Songz
Then to have Brett come along and follow in the footsteps, it's so gratifying. I get as much enjoyment out of watching Brett play as I did of entertaining people myself. — Bobby Hull
I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. — Lynn Swann
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society). — Merold Westphal
Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports. — Emerson Fittipaldi
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending. — Neil Simon
The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today. — Dwayne Johnson
We've finally told the world that this is sports entertainment, and I think one of the best forms of entertainment is anything that's fun or funny, something that you really enjoy watching or listening to. — Jerry Lawler
I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc. — Charles Barkley
There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports. — J. C. Watts
I love sport as long as it's kept as an entertainment - not a meaning of life. — David Icke
He does a great job of it and keeps the sport entertaining and even my mom loves to listen to Joe Rogan when the fights are on so that tells you right there that he does something for the new fans of the sport that nobody else could. — Shawn Tompkins
If tomorrow we decided only to desist from killing and causing suffering for sport and entertainment, the world would be significantly better for animals. Even this we have failed to achieve. — Andrew Linzey
When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information. — Ed Begley, Jr.
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