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Quotes About Engagement

When you're riding, only the race in which you're riding is important.
~ Bill Shoemaker
Saving civilization is not a spectator sport.
~ Lester R. Brown
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
~ Red Barber
I have brought you to the ring, now you must dance.
~ Robert the Bruce
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
~ Vince Carter
Life is not a spectator sport.
~ Jackie Robinson
I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.
~ Mark Spitz
It may be possible through detachment, to gain knowledge that is 'useful;' but only through participation is it possible to gain the knowledge that is helpful.
~ Harry Stack Sullivan
My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'
~ Earl Weaver
Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.
~ John Wooden
Mathematics is not a spectator sport!
~ George Polya
You can always find a distraction if you're looking for one.
~ Tom Kite
In life, be a participant, not a spectator.
~ Lou Holtz
Be sincere. Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you.
~ Al Smith
Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.
~ Michael Vick
I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
~ Jack Brickhouse
Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
~ Shelby Metcalf
A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.
~ Pierre de Coubertin
I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.
~ Lynn Swann
Running for office is the least aerobic of the socially interactive sports.
~ Carrie Fisher
Commitment to the team - there is no such thing as in-between, you are either in our out.
~ Pat Riley
What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
~ Imran Khan
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
~ David Gergen