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70+ Famous And Inspirational Lebron James Quotes About Basketball

admin — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 14:00:00 +0000

Here’s a selection of Lebron James Quotes, covering topics such as motivation, inspiration, haters, comedy and life.

We really hope you enjoy these quotes and that they give you something to think about.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There’s always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

Basketball isn’t easy. All my life I’ve been striving to make myself better. It’s a full time commitment. To be the best, you have to work the hardest. You have to chase what seems impossible over and over and over again, because giving up is not an option, and when you feel like you’ve reached your limit, it’s only the beginning, that’s when the time to dig deep, to find the courage to push some more, because if you’ve got the drive, the discipline, and the resolve to do what it takes to make yourself great, then the rewards are endless.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

A lot of players know how to play the game, but they really don’t know how to play the game, if you know what I mean. They can put the ball in the hoop, but I see things before they even happen. You know how a guy can make his team so much better? That’s one thing I learned from watching Jordan.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I’m special, but honestly, I still don’t get it.

You can’t be afraid to fail. It’s the only way you succeed – you’re not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.

The best teacher in life is experience.

Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.

I don’t know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don’t want anybody to know my identity. I’m like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.

I’m going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it.

In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given. Everything is earned. You work for what you have.

My game is really played above time. I don’t say that like I’m saying I’m ahead of my time. I’m saying, like, if I’m on the court and I throw a pass, the ball that I’ve thrown will lead my teammate right where he needs to go, before he even knows that that’s the right place to go to.

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Where I grew up – I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights – that’s every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don’t want your kids to hear growing up.

Maybe my pain was my motivation.

Ask me to play. I’ll play. Ask me to shoot. I’ll shoot. Ask me to pass. I’ll pass. Ask me to steal, block out, sacrifice, lead, dominate. Anything. But it’s not what you ask of me. It’s what I ask of myself.

As a professional athlete a lot is going to be said about you – but I just try to move forward and try to achieve my goals.

There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

Once you get on the playing field it’s not about whether you’re liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That’s what it’s about.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

All the people that were rooting on me to fail, at the end of the day, they have to wake up tomorrow and have the same life that they had before they woke up today. They have the same personal problems they had today. I’m going to continue to live the way I want to live and continue to do the things that I want to do with me and my family and be happy with that. They can get a few days or a few months or whatever the case may be on being happy about not only myself, but the Miami Heat not accomplishing their goal. But they have to get back to the real world at some point.

My relationship with Northeast Ohio is bigger than basketball. I didn’t realize that four years ago. I do now.

When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable.

Commitment is a big part of what I am and what I believe. How committed are you to winning? How committed are you to being a good friend? To being trustworthy? To being successful? How committed are you to being a good father, a good teammate, a good role model? There’s that moment every morning when you look in the mirror: Are you committed, or are you not?

You have to do what’s best for you and what’s going to make you happy at the end of the day, because no one can live with the consequences or anything that comes with your decision besides you.

We have an opportunity to get better.

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

My father wasn’t around when I was a kid, and I used to always say, ‘Why me? Why don’t I have a father? Why isn’t he around? Why did he leave my mother?’ But as I got older I looked deeper and thought, ‘I don’t know what my father was going through, but if he was around all the time, would I be who I am today?’

I’ve always been an unselfish guy, and that’s the only way I know how to play on the court and I try to play to the maximum of my ability – not only for myself but for my teammates.

The first time I stepped on an NBA court I became a businessman.

I love showcasing my talents – not only to my hometown fans and my own team but to the world.

Every night on the court I give my all, and if I’m not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself.

I’m not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.

There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don’t put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I play my game, it will take care of itself.

There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly who they are and what they mean.

Some times your best effort just isn’t good enough.

Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you have to go with don’t go back on it.

I’m ready to accept the challenge. I’m coming home.

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.

I laugh and joke, but I don’t get distracted very easily.

Funny, Motivational & Inspirational Gymnastics Quotes And Sayings

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 13:45:09 +0000

If you are the parent of a cutesty little child hoping to become world famous with their gymnastic ability, you or your short order Simon Biles might just need a little inspiration for your little one's daily training regimen. If that is the case, it is possible that some funny and/or motivational quotes for kids might be just the thing to use. All of these kid-friendly quotes about gymnastics that guaranteed to pump your little champion up and get them in the mood to shoot for that spotlight at the Olympics.

I don’t run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run towards it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.

Nadia Comaneci

Yes, I was a kid, but I think I knew what I was doing.

Nadia Comaneci

I don’t like messing up. I think that’s just a part of my personality. I don’t like to mess up or do anything wrong. When I’m in gymnastics, I like to see my hit percent as high as possible.

Jacob Dalton

It’s very tough for me to focus. I’m like: ‘Look, something shiny! No, focus. Oh, there goes a butterfly!’

Gabby Douglas

Don’t practice until you get it right. Practice until you can’t get it wrong.

Unknown

In gymnastics, everything is a competition. You want to have your hair look the best and your makeup look the best. You want to be the best, and you want to have the prettiest leotard.

McKayla Maroney

Competing in gymnastics is the greatest reminder of being alive as a human being.

Raj Bhavsar

It’s important to push yourself further than you think you can go each and every day — as that is what separates the good from the great.

Kerri Strugg

We can push ourselves further. We always have more to give.

Simone Biles

What I’ve always loved about gymnastics and one of the many reasons I love watching it now is the combination of skill and freedom it has – the discipline and expression – letting you dance.

Gwendoline Christie

I would like beautiful gymnastics to be recognized as the best. I want the judges to appreciate things that are not necessarily winning points.

Kohei Uchimura

In order to feel alive, we have to accomplish things that we once believed we could not.

Dominique Moceanu

Being a gymnast means you have the strength to hold on and the courage to let go.

Jordyn Wieber

If you don’t think you’ll win, you won’t.

Unknown

I was told early on in my gymnastics training that I was full of energy but not full of talent. So, believe me, hard work and determination can get you where you want to go.

Shawn Johnson

Using your body to free your mind. That’s the blessing bestowed by movement, by action.

Marty Rubin

I think gymnastics trained me as a person, too. Without the lessons I learned in gymnastics, I would be crushed.

Liang Chow

I’d rather regret the risks that didn’t work out than the chances I didn’t take at all

Simone Biles

Flexibility is the greatest strength.

Steven Redhead

Other people may not have had high expectations for me… but I had high expectations for myself

Shannon Miller

Gymnastics. Blood, sweat and tears chalk.

Unknown

Gymnastics has made me strong. I feel like it broke me down to my lowest point, but at the same time, it has given me the greatest strength anyone could ask for.

Shawn Johnson

Finish what you start, no matter how painful it may be.

Nastia Liukin

I’m really good at gymnastics, and that’s about it.

Amy Adams

This is how sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it.

Svetlana Khorkina

Never give up and always keep fighting, because though times may be tough, the sacrifices do pay off, so just keep pushing towards your dream and just love it at the same time and enjoy it.

Gabby Douglas

Whoever you are, whatever your dream, you have to be strong in your head and strong in your heart. Be strong. There’s no quitting in the person who wants it bad enough.

Carly Patterson

Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

Olga Korbut

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

Olga Korbut

Gymnastics taught me everything – life lessons, responsibility and discipline and respect.

Shawn Johnson

Practice like you have never won. Perform like you have never lost

Shawn Johnson

Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew.

Shannon Miller

The best way to show respect to your fellow athletes is to give the best performance you can.

Cheng Fei

What’s endlessly complicated in thinking about women’s gymnastics is the way that vulnerability and power are threaded through the sport.

Meghan O’Rourke

Gymnastics: The only sport where you can be proud that you fell from 10 feet in the air.

Unknown

After a while, if you work on a certain move consistently then it doesn’t seem so risky. The idea is that the move stays dangerous and it looks dangerous to my opponents — but it isn’t to me. That is my secret.

Nadia Comaneci

Warning: Gymnast Could Flip at any Moment

Unknown

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Suzanne Yoculan

You know you’re a gymnast when you’re on your hands as much as your feet.

Unknown

The mind is perhaps one of the greatest factors in gymnastics; if one can’t control his mind, he can’t control his body.

William Meade

After a day of football, a gymnast would be bruised. After a day of gymnastics, a football player would be dead.

Unknown

The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.

Elise Ray

Gymnastics – only the strong survive.

Unknown

A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.

Mary Lou Retton

There is always going to be a reason why you can’t do something; your job is to constantly look for the reasons why you can achieve your dreams.

Shannon Miller

Every single element, even the most hair-raising, can be improved.

Dmitry Bilozerchev

Real athletes don’t wear pants. They wear leotards

Unknown

It’s not about winning or losing a competition, it’s about beating the doubt from within yourself and knowing at the end of each day you are one step closer to your goals.

Jonathan Horton

When I go in to compete, whether it’s gymnastics or anything else, I do my own thing. I compete with myself.

Shannon Miller

Everything is about your movements and precision and timing, which is what gymnastics is about.

Shawn Johnson

You are the only one that can stop you from being all you can be.

Nastia Liukin

I know how to smile, I know how to laugh, I know how to play. But I know how to do these things only after I have fulfilled my mission

Nadia Comaneci

Talent alone is not enough. I believe that a really good gymnast is 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration.

Vladislav Rastorotsky

After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be successful not only in gymnastics, but in my non-athletic life as well.

Jonathan Horton

Seven days without gymnastics makes one weak.

Unknown

There is always tension in women’s gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

Meghan O’Rourke

Wake up every day knowing that today is a new day and only you can determine the outcome of that day. So dream big, accept the challenge, and never look back.

Alicia Sacramone

In gymnastics, smaller will always be better in many ways. The stress in the head, that will be the same for all. But the stress on the body and the concussions it must endure, that will always be easier for the little ones.

Bela Karolyi

If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built.

Simone Biles

Set your goals, follow your dreams, listen to your heart and don’t let anything stand in your way.

Brandy Johnson, Brandy Johnson’s Global Gymnastics Academy motto

It’s definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you’re doing gymnastics because things don’t always go perfect.

Jacob Dalton

Gymnasts defeat gravity.

Unknown

Hard work is always hard work, for young gymnasts and old gymnasts. Whoever can handle this will be a champion.

Svetlana Boginskaya

Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work at it

Unknown

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.

Mary Lou Retton

I don’t call them sacrifices. I call them exchanges.

Shawn Johnson

Success doesn’t come to you…you go to it.

Unknown

Beautiful mistakes come with beautiful endings. Just because you fall on a beam routine doesn’t mean it’s over. Get back up and show it off. Breathe, relax, and smile.

Unknown

When you first walk onto that blue carpeted floor, you have already given up the shot at a life without pain.

Unknown

In gymnastics, you have to be perfect every step along the way.

Shannon Miller

Famous Jackie Robinson Quotes On Civil Rights & Determination

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 23:15:03 +0000

As the first Major League Baseball player to break the color barrier in the 1940s, Brooklyn Dodger Jackie Robinsonhad to daily battle racism and gained the respect of generations while trailblazing for the civil rights movement. Though Jackie Robinson dealt with non-stop discrimination, his class and perseverance made history and served as a model for the greatness that is in the sport today and a legend in the struggle for civil rights in the United States. These quotes by Jackie Robinson on determination and fighting for civil rights will be inspirational for anyone looking to push through to victory.

In order for America to be 100 percent strong — economically, defensively and morally — we cannot afford the waste of having second- and third-class citizens.

Jackie Robinson

The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

Jackie Robinson

It is up to us in the North to provide aid and support to those who are actually bearing the brunt of the fight for equality down South. America has its iron curtain, too.

Jackie Robinson

I don’t think it matters what I believe, only what I do.

Jackie Robinson

I have always fought for my principles and spoken out for my ideals.

Jackie Robinson

I never believed in backing out just because things weren’t the best they could be.

Jackie Robinson

Yes, here is my homeground here and in all the Negro communities through the land. Here I stand.

Jackie Robinson

I was proud to be in the hurricane eye of a significant breakthrough and to be used to prove that a sport can’t be national if blacks are barred from it.

Jackie Robinson

I don’t owe any living person my soul, my integrity, my freedom of thought and speech.

Jackie Robinson

It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.

Jackie Robinson

It’s not easy to be a martyr in the field of race relations.

Jackie Robinson

The many of us who attain what we may and forget those who help us along the line we’ve got to remember that there are so many others to pull along the way. The farther they go, the further we all go.

Jackie Robinson

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

Jackie Robinson

I believe in the goodness of a free society. And I believe that society can remain good only as long as we are willing to fight for it – and to fight against whatever imperfections may exist.

Jackie Robinson

Just because young people are quieter today, we’ve no right to assume that the problems are solved.

Jackie Robinson

A life has no importance except in the impact it has on other lives

Jackie Robinson

I do not believe that every person, in every walk of life, can succeed in spite of any handicap. That would be perfection. But I do believe that what I was able to attain came to be because we put behind us (no matter how slowly) the dogmas of the past: to discover the truth of today; and perhaps the greatness of tomorrow.

Jackie Robinson

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Jackie Robinson

There’s not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.

Jackie Robinson

I yearned to just stay in bed. But no matter how terrible I felt, I had to get up.

Jackie Robinson

Recognition… has given me the determination to live as many more productive years as I can.

Jackie Robinson

We’re in a real crisis situation where many times people are being turned away at the door.

Jackie Robinson

Maybe I shouldn’t have said that, but I guess I did.

Jackie Robinson

I speak to you only as an American who happens to be an American Negro and one who is proud of that heritage. We ask for nothing special. We ask only that we be permitted to compete on an even basis, and if we are not worthy, then the competition shall, per se, eliminate us.

Jackie Robinson

I think if we go back and check our record, the Negro has proven beyond a doubt that we have been more than patient in seeking our rights as American citizens.

Jackie Robinson

We’d better stop using generation gap as an alibi for alienation. Young and old are guilty of that. We’d better build a bridge over that gap.

Jackie Robinson

Suppressed and repressed for so many years, they needed a victorious black man as a symbol. It would help them believe in themselves.

Jackie Robinson

I don’t think that I or any other Negro, as an American citizen, should have to ask for anything that is rightfully his. We are demanding that we just be given the things that are rightfully ours and that we’re not looking for anything else.

Jackie Robinson

I cannot possibly believe that I have it made while so many black brothers and sisters are hungry, inadequately housed, insufficiently clothed, denied their dignity as they live in slums or barely exist on welfare.

Jackie Robinson

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

Jackie Robinson

How much more effective our demands for a piece of the action would be if we were negotiating from the strength or our own self-reliance rather than stating our case in the role of beggar or someone crying out for charity.

Jackie Robinson

It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can’t stand losing. That’s the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.

Jackie Robinson

But as I write these words now I cannot stand and sing the National Anthem. I have learned that I remain a black in a white world.

Jackie Robinson

Civil rights is not by any means the only issue that concerns me — nor, I think, any other Negro. As Americans, we have as much at stake in this country as anyone else. But since effective participation in a democracy is based upon enjoyment of basic freedoms that everyone else takes for granted, we need make no apologies for being especially interested in catching up on civil rights

Jackie Robinson

Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality – we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.

Jackie Robinson

I’m not buying anti-white attitudes. Too many people who are not black have proven to me that being real isn’t qualified by skin color but by character.

Jackie Robinson

It hadn’t been easy. Some of my own teammates refused to accept me because I was black. I had been forced to live with snubs and rebuffs and rejections.

Jackie Robinson

If I had to choose between baseball’s Hall of Fame and first class citizenship for all of my people. I would say first-class citizenship.

Jackie Robinson

We have a social responsibility and we are held to a higher standard than other institutions.

Jackie Robinson

The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.

Jackie Robinson

We ask for nothing special. We ask only to be permitted to live as you live, and as our nation’s constitution provides.

Jackie Robinson

I had to fight hard against loneliness, abuse, and the knowledge that any mistakes I made would be magnified because I was the only black man out there… I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

Jackie Robinson

70+ Funny, Famous And Inspirational Quotes About Sailing

admin — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 22:57:18 +0000

Take a break from the chaos of everyday living by hoisting the mainsail from the comfort of your desk. Learning how to sail takes years to master, but reading about sailing is much easier for beginners to accomplish, so sit down with a fresh squeezed margarita and some music and the rest of your day will be instantly easier. You will feel like you've been set adrift on Mark Twain Lake in Missouri when you read the following quotes you're sure to love about sailing. Nothing stands between you and the inspiration or the humor of a glittering, bright blue sea.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you live a life of make-believe, your life isn’t worth anything until you do something that does challenge your reality. And to me, sailing the open ocean is a real challenge, because it’s life or death.

Morgan Freeman

It is not that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better.

Sir Francis Drake

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

Jacques Yves Cousteau

It is not the ship so much as the skillful sailing that assures the prosperous voyage.

George William Curtis

Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than those you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from safe harbor. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

Mark Twain

The days pass happily with me wherever my ship sails.

Joshua Slocum

The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles in life, it is a safe retreat.

Francis Herreshoff

There’s no thrill in easy sailing when the skies are clear and blue, there’s no joy in merely doing things which any one can do. But there is some satisfaction that is mighty sweet to take, when you reach a destination that you never thought you’d make.

Author Unknown

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.

Louisa May Alcott

I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning to sail my ship.

Aeschylus

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Willa Cather

Sailing a boat calls for quick action, a blending of feeling with the wind and water as well as with the very heart and soul of the boat itself. Sailing teaches alertness and courage, and gives in return a joyousness and peace that but few sports afford.

George Matthew Adams

There is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.

Kenneth Grahame

When a man comes to like a sea life, he is not fit to live on land.

Dr. Samuel Johnson

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky.
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

John Masefield

I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present. In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.

Bernard Moitessier

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Joseph Conrad

If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.

Charles Stanley

There is a rule in sailing where the more maneuverable ship should give way to the less maneuverable craft. I think this is sometimes a good rule to follow in human relationships as well.

Joyce Brothers

The cure for anything is saltwater – sweat, tears, or the sea.

Isak Dinesen

The planning stage of a cruise is often just as enjoyable as the voyage itself, letting one’s imagination loose on all kinds of possibilities. Yet translating dreams into reality means a lot of practical questions have to be answered.

Jimmy Cornell

Sailors, with their built-in sense of order, service and discipline, should really be running the world.

Nicholas Monsarrat

I’d love to have a proper sailing boat and go around the world.

Jonathan Powell

Nothing comes sailing by itself.

Alexander Dale Oen

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

Arthur Ashe

I love cities that are on the water. I love the water element, specifically the sea. I grew up on the sea and I grew up sailing – I love sailing – and the presence of the sea gives the air and the light a very special quality that I absolutely adore.

Connie Nielsen

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Amelia Earhart

It’s scary to have a 30 foot wave chasing you. If you are steering, you don’t look back. The crew looks back for you, and you watch their faces. When they look straight up, then get ready!

Magnus Olsson

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving – we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it – but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Out of sight of land the sailor feels safe. It is the beach that worries him.

Charles Davis

A sailor is an artist whose medium is the wind.

Webb Chiles

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Ovid

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint Exupery

The art of the sailor is to leave nothing to chance.

Annie Van De Wiele

The lovely thing about cruising is that planning usually turns out to be of little use.

Dom Degnon

The goal is not to sail the boat, but rather to help the boat sail herself.

John Rousmaniere

No literature is richer than that of the sea. No story is more enthralling, no tradition is more secure.

Felix Riesenberg

At sea, I learned how little a person needs, not how much.

Robin Lee Graham

Until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore, you will not know the terror of being forever lost at sea.

Charles Cook

Clouds do not really look like camels or sailing ships or castles in the sky. They are simply a natural process at work. So too, perhaps, are our lives.

Roger Ebert

It’s remarkable how quickly a good and favorable wind can sweep away the maddening frustrations of shore living.

Ernest K. Gann

Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

Sir Francis Chichester

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

Thomas Merton

They were singing, Gillette, the best a man can get, with a lot of guys hugging their fathers and sailing and riding bikes. I suddenly felt a long way from the best a man could get and I thought it would be nice to get from there to the best.

Craig Ferguson

To reach a port we must set sail –
Sail, not tie at anchor
Sail, not drift.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

There is nothing like lying flat on your back on the deck, alone except for the helmsman aft at the wheel, silence except for the lapping of the sea against the side of the ship. At that time you can be equal to Ulysses and brother to him.

Errol Flynn

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

Bob Dylan

Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.

Augustus Hare

Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than the power that crosses the white sea, driven by the stormy wind, making a path under surges that threaten to engulf him.

Sophocles

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Joseph Conrad

The wind and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigator.

Edmund Gibbon

Mackerel skies and mares tails, soon will be time to shorten sails.

Sailors proverb

Instead of sailing off into the sunset, he hopes to sail into the next century.

Dave Anderson

We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

Aristotle Onassis

I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea.

Alaine Gerbault

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Give him a fishing lesson and he’ll sit in a boat drinking beer every weekend.

Alex Blackwell

He who lets the sea lull him into a sense of security is in very grave danger.”

Hammond Ines

Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rustle under your bows.

Charles Buxton

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

William Arthur Ward

For the most part, a sailboat navigates through its world of wind and water not leaving a single trace of its passage. Nothing is consumed. Nothing is altered. The winds and the water are left in exactly the same condition for the next user. Sailing is forever.

Michael B. McPhee

Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.

Dennis Conner

Only two sailors, in my experience, never ran aground. One never left port and the other was an atrocious liar.

Don Bamford

The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship.

Ernest Hemingway

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

Vincent Van Gogh

On life‘s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

Alexander Pope

Sailing – The fine art of slowly going nowhere at great expense while being cold, wet and miserable.

Irv Heller