Jean de Gribaldy famous quotes

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.
-- Jean de Gribaldy

#Sports #Football #Hockey

Don't stand if you can sit, don't sit if you can lie down.
-- Jean de Gribaldy

#Lying

Cycling isn’t a game, it's a sport. Tough, hard and unpitying, and it requires great sacrifices. One plays football, or tennis, or hockey. One doesn’t play at cycling.
-- Jean de Gribaldy

#Sports #Football #Hockey

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill another person because I've hated humans for a long time.

I guess I lost a little bit of self-esteem that time that you made it with the whole hockey team.

We brought him [Raffi Torres] in because he was an emotional, physical player. He's had nothing but a great attitude and a great work ethic with us all year long. He comes to play, prepares himself real well. We need him to play the way he does. You know, he's a little bit sometimes outside the box, but you've got to let him be who he is.

Let's make like a hockey player and get the puck out of here.

If I'm playing hockey, I want to win all the (trophies) I can.

I'm okay. Russian machine never breaks.