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Quotes about Time


There is no greater sorrow Than to be mindful of the happy time In misery. [Lat., Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.]

Dante ("Dante Alighieri")

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

Vince Lombardi

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

Dorothy Hamill

What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.

George Bernard Shaw

Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Lou Brock

Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.

Harold Brodkey

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Greg Lemond

He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.

Jack Nicklaus

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'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)

Mike Mccormack

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

Ted Williams

Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject. (recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)

Shelby Metcalf

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral. (on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)

Dorothy Shula

I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time. (after the team's cocaptain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)

Mike Mccormack

I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.

Ben Hogan

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.)

Lou Duva

He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is. (on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota)

Lou Duva

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.

Tom Landry

Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean. (on sportswriters)

Pedro Guerrero

I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.

College Senior

Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres.

David Coleman

Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.

David Coleman

Winning is not a sometime thing; it’s an all time thing. You don’t win once in a while, you don’t do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

Vince Lombardi

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