Joey Cheek famous quotes

I look at sport and competition as something that has been personally enormously beneficial to me. It's helped me create life skills. And if we carry ourselves with grace and dignity and try our best - even when we fall on our faces, as will happen sometimes - then I think people will see that. And that will be the message of sport and the Olympics.
-- Joey Cheek

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

I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.

You always catch the wrong players.

Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

Flying is more than a sport and more than a job; flying is pure passion and desire, which fill a lifetime.

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

I am putting together a secular bible. My Genesis is when the apple falls on Newton's head.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.