Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Sports critic Bill Mayo disagrees, saying that sports clichés are used "just the right amount," and "it is what it is." Former New York Giants quarterback -turned CBS broadcaster Phil Simms devotes a large portion of his 2004 book Sunday Morning Quarterback to examining football clichés such as "winning the turnover battle", "halftime ...
The following is a list of phrases from sports that have become idioms (slang or otherwise) in English. They have evolved usages and meanings independent of sports and are often used by those with little knowledge of these games. The sport from which each phrase originates has been included immediately after the phrase.
Use a free-use image relating to the author. Make sure to add citation below the quote. Add the new quote to the next available subpage, using template {{ Portal:Sports/Selected quote/Layout }}.
Back home to watch the World Series with his family after covering the ALCS, Francoeur gave four quotes to live by for sports parents: (Questions and responses are edited for length and clarity.)
According to the late James Michener's Sports in America, Lombardi claimed to have been misquoted. What he intended to say was "Winning isn't everything. The will to win is the only thing." [8] However, Lombardi is on record repeating the original version of the quotation on several occasions. [9]
Back-to-school season evokes thoughts of new pencils, autumn leaves and the return of sweater weather.It’s also marks a new school year as kids return to classes after the long summer break.
The expression has been adopted in a variety of sports and fitness activities, beginning in 1982 to present day. David B. Morris wrote in The Scientist in 2005, "'No pain, no gain' is an American modern mini-narrative: it compresses the story of a protagonist who understands that the road to achievement runs only through hardship."
The quotes from the World Trade Center site can be found in September Morning: Ten Years of Poems and Readings from the 9/11 Ceremonies New York City, compiled and edited by Sara Lukinson.