Quotes About Community

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

I love this sport and I absolutely love the support you guys give me; and I will continue to do it until I can't.

Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

Nobody gives a crap about hockey down here - nobody. I coach kids' hockey down here and you can start to see the disinterest in the game here with the kids

Business and investing are team sports.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

Companies that support sports developmental programs in our communities should also be applauded.

A player who conjugates a verb in the first-person singular cannot be part of the squad. He has to conjugate the verb in the first-person plural. We.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

Basketball, more than any other sport, is a team game...about the thousands of small, unselfish acts, the sacrifices on the part of the players that result in team building.

It's still fun to come to games, and it's still fun to be in the Seattle crowd.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair

If someone starts talking about pride today I'm going to vomit... The Apache nation had pride and look where they are. The bushmen of Kalahari have pride and look where they are.

I'm really happy here. I think anyone who knows me well, and the fans too I hope, they know that I love the area, and the bond that I've had with the fans has been fantastic.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

The most important thing we stressed is that we want those kids to be productive citizens.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

We leaned on family, church, school, friends and sports. That's basically all we had. All those things really shaped my life and shaped me musically. It's why I write the way I do.