Friday, March 21, 2008
Rugby Quotes
- Oscar Wilde
The tactical difference between Football and Rugby with its varieties seems to be that in the former, the ball is the missile, in the latter, men are the missles.
- Alfred E. Crawley
Beer and Rugby are more or less synonymous.
- Chris Laidlaw
Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen; soccer is a gentleman’s game played by beasts; football is a beastly game played by beasts.
- Henry Blaha
The whole point of rugby is that it is, first and foremost, a state of mind, a spirit.
- Jean-Pierre Rives
Rugby is great.The players don’t wear helmets or padding; they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer.I love that.
- Joe Theismann
It’s a really exciting time to be involved in Welsh rugby.
- Jonah Lomu
From : Rugby Quotes
Sorry Quotes
- Isaac Friedmann
I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.
- Socrates
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain
When you realize you have made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.
- Dan Heist
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.
- Aesop
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Kimberly Johnson
There is a strength in the union of very sorry men.
- Homer
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.
- Daivd Herbert
It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
- Grace Hopper
Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.
- Evelyn Underhill
I’m sorry, if you were right, I’d agree with you.
- Anonymous
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
- Edgar Watson
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Paul Boese
Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.
- Anonymous
From : Sorry Quotes
Funny Addiction Quotes
--Clifford Stoll --
Cocaine isn't habit forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
--Tallulah Bankhead --
I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
--Terence --
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an
arrested development in man's moral nature.
--Thorstein Veblen --
Addiction should never be treated as a crime.
It has to be treated as a health problem.
We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country.
Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.
--Ralph Nader --
A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in
excess it is nearly always bad for the health.
--Clarence Day --
There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs, they are weak men.
Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.
--Martin H. Fischer --
From : Funny Addiction Quotes
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Soccer Quotes
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
- Mia Hamm
A champion is someone who does not settle for that day’s practice, that day’s competition, that day’s performance. They are always striving to be better. They don’t live in the past.
- Briana Scurry
Those who say it can’t be done, shouldn’t interfere with those who are doing it.
- Billy Eberhart
The Vision of a Champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, and the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching
- Anson Dorrance
The Glaswegian definition of an atheist: a bloke who goes to a Rangers-Celtic match to watch the football.
- Sandy Strang
The goalkeeper is the jewel in the crown and getting at him should be almost impossible. It’s the biggest sin in football to make him do any work.
- George Graham
Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.
- Bobby Charlton
At a football club, there’s a holy trinity - the players, the manager and the supporters. Directors don’t come into it. They are only there to sign the checks.
- Bill Shankley
Failure happens all the time. It happens every day in practice. What makes you better is how you react to it.
- Mia Hamm
You can have the top stars to bring the attention, you can have the best stadium, you can have the best facilities, you can have the most beautiful project in terms of marketing and all this kind of thing. But if you don’t win… All the work these people are doing is forgotten.
- Jose Mourinho
Every time I went away I was deceiving my mum. I’d tell her I was going to school but I’d be out on the street playing football. I always had a ball on my feet.
-Ronaldo
Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
- Nike (beckham)
We hope Du Wei could be Yao Ming on the football pitch here
- Gordon Strachan
We’ve never had a pop-star footballer quite like David (Beckham). People here simply can’t get enough
- Alan Smith
I would not say he [David Ginola] is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better
- Arsene Wenger
from Soccer Quotes
Confucius Quotes
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Silence is a friend who will never betray.
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
You cannot open a book without learning something.
Ignorance is the night of mind, a night without moon or star.
Study without thought is vain: thought without study is dangerous.
If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life.
From : Confucius Quotes
Emo Quotes
“I’ve never felt I’ve been valued by anyone. I’m just a waste of space that everyone ignores, like a ghost without a home.”
“Sometimes I want to break out of his vacuum but I just can’t. The space demons keep calling me back into the void. I feel comfortable there!”
“I want to die but I can’t think of a way to end it all that involves cotton wool. I’m terrified of blades.”
“I wish I was a duck, then I wouldn’t have to give a damn y’know? I could just sit there in the pond and float about, eating scraps of bread. It’s my idea of heaven y’know? Perhaps that’s what happens when you die and you’ve been good! You go to the great pond on the sky where the Lord will feed you bits of bread for all eternity”
“I’m tired of being made the scapegoat in life. I feel like I’m being persecuted at every possible moment. Even if a kitty comes up to me I’m suspicious of it’s motives. I know it’s just there to make a fool out of me.”
“If God exists why did He have to give me such a horrible looking body? I mean what’s the point in having nipples if you are a man? I’ve tried biting them off in the past but I doubt I could handle the pain. I don’t know what I’d say to Mother on the way to the hospital either……”
“Bill Hicks………how adorable! There’s just something about him that reminds me of a chipmunk. I’d love to feed him a bit of wood and stroke his wig. What do you mean he’s dead?”
From : Emo Quotes
Health Quotes
- Virgil
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.
- Anonymous
In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.
- Colette
The trouble with always trying to preserve the health of the body is that it is so difficult to do without destroying the health of the mind.
- G.K. Chesterton
I am convinced digestion is the great secret to life.
- Anonymous
Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway.
- Anonymous
Health of body and mind is a great blessing, if we can bear it.
- J.H. Cardinal Newman
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
- Mark Twain
I drive way too fast to worry about cholesterol.
- Anonymous
From : Health Quotes