I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy. — Emma Bunton
I would like just one time to be on the cover of Italian Vogue. — Adriana Lima
Meeting sports athletes that are the best in the world is a thrill to this day. — Phil Knight
Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury. — Tobin Heath
The female body is a masterpiece. Everyone likes to look at the female body, especially in dynamic, athletic sport. — Natalie Cook
Sports is the toy department of human life. — Howard Cosell
I have been blessed to win a number of awards and be involved in numerous historical baseball moments over my 20-year career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres. — Steve Garvey
Professional sports are something they can't control. — Troy Vincent
I like David Beckham just because of his lifestyle. He don't ever need to score another goal again. How many times has he been on the cover of GQ? — Wale
I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports. — Martina Hingis
I knew when my career was over. In 1965 my baseball card came out with no picture. — Bob Uecker
You know how ESPN works; they'll throw themselves into a frenzy over Tebow's white bread lame ass niceness and then vilify Johnny Football just 'cause he rages now and then. — Dabo Swinney
Short Sports Illustrated Quotes
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. — Knute Rockne
It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game. — Vin Scully
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love. — Bryant Gumbel
Just because I look sexy on the cover of Rolling Stone doesn't mean I'm naughty. — Britney Spears
Durability is part of what makes a great athlete. — Bill Russell
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. — John Wooden
I'm taking my talents to South Beach. — LeBron James
A helluva athlete, the best ever to play his position in the history of the game. — Al Davis
Sports Illustrated Image Quotes
The real workout starts when you want to stop.
Sport Quotes
Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you. — Mike Tyson
Everything happens for a reason, and everything has a story, and if you take time to realise what your dream is and what you really want in life... whether it's sports, whether it's in other fields, you have to realise that there's always work to do. — Stephen Curry
Just when you think you know the answers, I change the questions. — Roddy Piper
Your body will be around a lot longer than that expensive handbag. Invest in yourself.
It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport. — Fridtjof Nansen
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. — Mia Hamm
Our bodies are capable of anything. It's our mind we have to convince.
The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence. — Walt Disney
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
There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results. — Nick Saban
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — Stevie Wonder
Illustration Quotes
Take the rose—most people think it very beautiful: I don’t care for It at all. I prefer the cactus, for the simple reason that it has a more interesting personality. It has wonderfully adapted itself to its surroundings! It is the best illustration of the theory of evolution in plant life. — Charles Proteus Steinmetz
Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africa’s impoverishment. — Kwame Nkrumah
Creating is about sharing ideas, sharing aesthetics, sharing what you believe in with other people. — Shepard Fairey
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you. — Marsha Norman
Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others. — Andy Stanley
Silently, like thoughts that come and go, the snowflakes fall, each one a gem. — William Hamilton Gibson
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. — Thomas Perry
Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people stay for awhile, and move our souls to dance. They awaken us to a new understanding, leave footprints on our hearts, and we are never, ever the same. — Flavia Weedn
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating. — Jackson Pollock
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail. — John Wesley Powell
Sports Betting 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
All pro sports, as well as the NCAA, should thank God every day we have sports betting here... We have the only agency in the world that regulates the honesty of games. — Meyer Lansky
The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil. — Heywood Hale Broun
Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a vision, a dream.
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
The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup — Slim Dusty
Remember this: The house doesn't beat the player. It just gives him the opportunity to beat himself. — Nick Dandolos
If youre not failing once in a while, it probably means youre not stretching yourself.
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich. — James Surowiecki
I don't think I have ever learnt a difficult lesson. Probably sports betting, which I have lost money on. I did lose money on Apple. You'd have thought you could only make money on Apple but I was one of the people who managed to lose. — Giles Coren
I'd be willing to bet you, if I was a betting man, that I have never bet on baseball. — Pete Rose
Boxing, for me, it's the beginning of all sports. I'm willing to bet that the first sport was a man against another man in a fight, so I think that's something innate in all of us. — Omar Epps
Sports Cars Quotes
I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. — Ferdinand Porsche
The winner ain't the one with the fastest car. It's the one who refuses to lose. — Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports... all the others are games. — Ernest Hemingway
My failure gave me strength, my pain was my motivation.
Jeep is America's only real sports car. — Enzo Ferrari
The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something. — Olivia Munn
A lot of people think Formula One isn't a sport because everyone drives a car when they go to work in the morning. But we're pulling up to six G on a corner or during breaking, which is almost like being a fighter pilot. So we have to do a lot of work on our neck muscles. — Jenson Button
Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
When I joined the trio, it was as if I was capable of driving a sports car at 60, but Ray Brown and Oscar Peterson just kept pressing the pedal down, and I was trying to control the car at 80! — Barney Kessel
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers! — Joan Benoit
The Jeep is the only true American sports car. — Enzo Ferrari
In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.' — Carroll Shelby
A supermodel needed to be able to be on 'Sports Illustrated,' to be able to walk runways, to be able to do beauty ads, to be on covers. And the girls now can no longer be on covers and be in the ads because your actresses have taken over all the jobs. I don't know what happened, but we want our jobs back. — Kim Alexis
The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same. — Ronda Rousey
I got a job in the tear-sheets department, ripping up magazines like People, Fortune, Sports Illustrated, and Time, and delivering the editorial pages.... So I began to use a camera to make fake photographs of the ads. By re-photographing a magazine page and then developing the film in a cheap lab, the photos came out very strange. — Richard Prince
Sport doesn't build character, it reveals it.
Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures. — Alan Hirsch
I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion. — Linda Evangelista
I love my curves. You know, I'm healthy and I think thats what Sports Illustrated represents: healthy, confident women who love their bodies. — Kate Upton
The only way to prove you are a good sport is to lose.
I didn't even think about hiding anything - I honestly went into it [with the idea that] I'm going to show myself off because no one of my size has ever been in this magazine [Sports Illustrated] and I need other women to know that they are just as beautiful. — Ashley Graham
Science has taught us, against all intuition, that apparently solid things like crystals and rocks are really almost entirely composed of empty space. And the familiar illustration is the nucleus of an atom is a fly in the middle of a sports stadium, and the next atom is in the next sports stadium. — Richard Dawkins
I wasn't put on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a plus-size model, I was put on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a model, as a rookie, as Ashley Graham. This is exactly where we're headed, and yes, there are so many more things we need to do in the curve/plus-size industry. — Ashley Graham
Playboy exploits sex the way Sports Illustrated exploits sports. — Hugh Hefner
My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.' — Kate Upton
The week before the (US Open) I gave a few interviews for CNN, USA Network, New York Times, USA Today and Sports Illustrated which had been arranged beforehand. The reason for giving these interviews is not only because working with the media is just part of the job, it is much more my desire to contribute to the promotion of tennis in the U.S. — Roger Federer
The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment. — Brooklyn Decker
The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000. — Heidi Klum
It was a very bold step for Sports Illustrated, and a lot of people are taking notice. I want it to be so normal that people don't even notice anymore. — Ronda Rousey
For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America. — Sayings
My fitness inspiration has always been athletes, my whole life. Serena Williams is a great friend of mine and Ronda Rousey - we did Sports Illustrated together. Obviously, following powerful women and seeing their bodies and how hard they work is really inspiring to me. — Gigi Hadid
Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read. — George Burns
When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. — Junior Seau
In Sardinia, the older you get the more equity you have, the more wisdom you're celebrated for. You go into the bars in Sardinia, instead of seeing the Sports Illustrated swimsuit calendar, you see the centenarian of the month calendar. — Dan Buettner
I never thought I'd make the pages of 'Sports Illustrated,' because I've always been skinny. — Carolyn Murphy
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues. — Esther Williams
At home I have a copy of the April 21, 1986, issue of 'Sports Illustrated.' I'm on the cover with the blurb, 'Can Lou Do It?' I'd just arrived at Notre Dame, and with spring football underway, I was the focal point of that week's coverage. — Lou Holtz
I made the cover of 'Sports Illustrated,' 'Newsweek' and 'Time' all in one week, and I didn't even know what that meant. — Nadia Comaneci
If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things. — P. J. O'Rourke
I had almost nothing published until I had something published in Sports Illustrated. I started there as a fact-checker two weeks after I got out of college and was there for almost 20 years. — Steve Rushin
Sports Illustrated is very serious about their covers. They'll never say, like, 'Oh you got it.' — Ronda Rousey
I really think that 'Sports Illustrated' is a big step in the "healthy is the new skinny" movement. — Ronda Rousey
Peter Gammons went on to Sports Illustrated and ESPN, and was on everyone`s shortlist of best baseball writers ever. — Donald Trump
Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you? — George Carlin
It's all about setting new goals. I reached one goal when I got the Sports Illustrated cover, which was such a surprise to me. Then after that I had a meeting with my agency who asked, "What do you want to do next?" I'd love to do more TV, I want to do more editorials, more high-fashion stuff. It's like picking it all and doing it. — Nina Agdal
When we do 'Sports Illustrated,' it starts the night before. You do a St. Tropez tan that night, then baby oil gel, then body color. — Chrissy Teigen
Every single model wants to be in Sports Illustrated, and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity. — Katherine Webb
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall. — Mameve Medwed
It's surely no accident that there are horoscopes in Vogue, Glamour, Mademoiselle, Woman, New Woman, Elle and Cosmo ... but not Sports Illustrated, GQ, Esquire, Field & Stream or Guns & Ammo. — Merrill Markoe
These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret. — Bar Refaeli
It doesn't look like Michelle Obama follows her own nutritionary dietary advice. And then we hear that she's out eating ribs at 1500 calories a serving with 141 grams of fat ... No, I'm trying to say that our first lady does not project the image of women that you might see on the cover of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue or of a woman Alex Rodriguez might date every six months or what have you. — Rush Limbaugh
First of all, it's a curse. Voodoo. As soon as a guy gets put on the cover of The Hockey News, it's like Sports Illustrated. He goes right into the tank. — Dean Lombardi
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