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Quotes About Field

In America, we have three major sports - baseball, football and basketball. They get the most coverage. Then there's things like golf which mop up most of what is left. But track and field? We are way at the bottom of the totem pole.
~ Maurice Greene
I went to Moorehouse College. There was no track and field there.
~ Edwin Moses
In the U.S., track and field struggles and I am such a trackie. I love the sport. It's one of those things where if I could garner a little more attention for it or make it a little more exciting, I would love to do that.
~ Mary Cain
I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.
~ Donovan Bailey
I got interested in decathlon because a coach that I had was a big fan of Bruce Jenner, and he just saw the ability in me - but when it came down to it, I knew my best chance at a college scholarship would be in track and field.
~ Dan O'Brien
In high school, I did a little track and field and ran on my own. In college, I would run every now and again, but I didn't have enough time to be devoted to it.
~ Natalie Morales
I actually like indoor track and field more than outdoor.
~ Ashton Eaton
I don't know much about the history of track and field, but I know Gail Devers.
~ Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
Having myself bowled in the early stages of the innings, with field restrictions in place and two men perforce required in catching positions, I know what it takes to bowl on unresponsive tracks against quality batsmen.
~ Anil Kumble
I used to practice my speeches on my tractor while I plowed my daddy's field.
~ Jim Hunt
Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon.
~ Garth Nix
There are few instincts more natural than the body in full motion as it races across a field or through the trees.
~ Neal Bascomb
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.
~ Galileo Galilei
All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.
~ Adolf Hitler
We'll shake, we'll shake the tree of dreams, That solitary tree of dreams In the centre of the verdant field.
~ Shusaku Endo
I'm looking forward to getting back on the field, it's what I love to do.
~ Adrian Peterson
I've got to think he's the only guy who smiled when he walked up to the podium. I love that about it and he brings that personality on the field.
~ Alexi Lalas
There were occasions when Denys, like all men whose minds have encompassed among other things the foibles of their species, experienced misanthropic moments; he could despair of men, but find poetry in a field of rock.
~ Beryl Markham
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
~ Clifford Geertz
Among all researchers who have worked in the African field, I consider myself one of the most fortunate because of the privilege of having been able to study the mountain gorilla.
~ Dian Fossey
Philosophy used to be a field that had content, but then 'natural philosophy' became physics, and physics has only continued to make inroads. Every time there's a leap in physics, it encroaches on these areas that philosophers have carefully sequestered away to themselves, and so then you have this natural resentment on the part of philosophers.
~ Lawrence M. Krauss
In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.
~ Daniel Snyder
Endorsements are a reward for good performance on the field, and the commitments made after signing them need to be done.
~ Virat Kohli