“You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times.”

1001 quotations to inspire you before you die, Quintessence Editions Ltd., 2016, ISBN 978-1-84403-895-4

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times." by Nancy Greene?

Nancy Greene1

Canadian alpine skier and politician 1943

Related quotes

“Is it really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?”

Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian

On hunting; at PETA's "Stand-Up for Animals" show http://www.peta.org/blog/bill-maher-top-comics-stand-up-for-animals/ (Los Angeles' Comedy Store, 15 June 2014)

“You have hal…… real bad, chum.”

Vladimir Nabokov book Pale Fire

Pale Fire (1962)

“I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.”

Jennifer Weiner book Good in Bed

Source: Good in Bed

“Well, I tell you again to get rid of your Constitution. But I suppose you won't do it. You have a good president and you have a bad Constitution, and the bad Constitution gets the better of the good President all the time. The end of it will be is that you might as well have an English Prime Minister.”

George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright

Newsreel interview by George Bernard Shaw entitled “Various Scenes with George Bernard Shaw,” Fox Movietone Newsreel (1931), referring to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s presidency
1910s

“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.”

Mary Oliver (1935–2019) American writer

Dream Work (1986)
Source: "Wild Geese"

“All your problems come down to love. Your love life is what your problem is, and everybody else's on earth. God in existence is man and woman. There's nothing else. And unless you have loved God in existence - your duality which is woman or man - unless you have united with that through love and devotion without going through your feelings of love, you're not going to be enlightened.”

Barry Long (1926–2003) Australian spiritual teacher and writer

Love is not a feeling ~ The Interview (1995)