Bob Hayes famous quotes

Last updated: Jul 22, 2024

  • Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  • Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

  • Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated

  • I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

  • I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

  • I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

  • Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.

  • People respected my experience, they hire me, they pay me what I am worth to coach their team.

  • Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

  • The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

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