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Quotes About Observation

Light only benefits one whose eyes are open.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I don't believe in atheists. I have never seen a real one.
~ Alin Sav
The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between. When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are.
~ Matthew Donnelly
When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.
~ Eric Cantona
Let your workings remain a mystery. Just show people the results.
~ Laozi
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
~ Steven Wright
Look around the table. If you don't see a sucker, get up, because you're the sucker.
~ Amarillo Slim
The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.
~ Richie Benaud
Don't talk too much or too soon.
~ Bear Bryant
From our broadcasting box you can't see any grass at all. It is simply a carpet of humanity.
~ Richie Benaud
It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.
~ Mats Sundin
The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.
~ Jean-Claude Killy
A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.
~ Bob Gibson
Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.
~ Roger Tory Peterson
I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.
~ Bill Watterson
When I looked at the third base coach, he turned his back on me.
~ Bob Uecker
I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
~ Ed Zern
A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.
~ Bernard Malamud
Most of us are referees at heart; we like to call throws and errors on someone else.
~ John Kessel
In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.
~ Honus Wagner
For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
~ Jane Austen
What is speed? The sports press often confuses speed with insight. See, if I start running slightly earlier than someone else, I seem faster.
~ Johan Cruijff
Very little is known of the Canadian country since it is rarely visited by anyone but the Queen and illiterate sport fishermen.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
He watched them with the passionate regret with which he saw them play football or go to dances: the activity itself did not interest, but the power to share it would have made him less apart.
~ Alasdair Gray