sports
Quotations
Quotations on the topic of ‘sports’ from all listed authors (click on the ‘click to view listing’ links to view each quote in full).
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“I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports… back in Edmonton, Alberta – I can’t give those people enough credit – and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.” -Nathan Fillion
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“In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn’t very good at sports.” -Martina McBride
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“It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay – by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.” -Angela Merkel
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“I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.” -Tim Robbins
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“I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.” -John…
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“I’ve been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I’ve come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks.” -Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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“If you look at things that really affect people’s lives – sport, the arts, charities – they were always at the back of the queue for government money – health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas – sports, the arts, the lottery – got relatively petty cash from…
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“I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.” -Joe Nichols
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“I’ve aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.” -Channing Tatum
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“I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn’t going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.” -Seann William Scott
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“I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey.” -Jeremy London
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“There are kids who get on a BMX bike when they’re eight years old and they go, ‘Whoa, this is incredible,’ and grow up to do extreme sports. It’s the same for me with acting.” -Joaquin Phoenix
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“I never played sports. I wasn’t any good at them.” -Leighton Meester
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“But sports photography isn’t something you just pick up overnight. You can’t do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.” -Drew Carey
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“I know I could be the host of ‘SportsCenter’ in two years if I changed my show today to sports.” -Gary Vaynerchuk
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“Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sister’s head using alginating plaster.” -J. J. Abrams
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“I’ve been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I’m convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn’t come calling.” -Jamie Foxx
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“It sounds like a cliche, but it… you do sing about what you know about. And I grew up in a small town, and I grew up in a place where your whole world revolved around friends, family, school, and church, and sports.” -Kenny Chesney
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“I grew up being into sports and I wasn’t trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I’m the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it’s always, ‘OK, one more take for Zac.’” -Zac Efron
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“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.” -Bill Bradley
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“There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’” -Arthur Ashe
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“I don’t watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that’s it.” -Larry Hagman
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“There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.” -Mario Lopez
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“Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.” -Alan Shepard
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“I’m not into extreme sports or something. I just live a quiet life.” -Charlie Kaufman
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“Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It’s played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they’re always using music. And it goes together, you know.” -Ice Cube
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“I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don’t look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn’t appeal to me.” -Kevin Costner
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“Now, I know you expected me to say that, well, I just kick back in the rocking chair, fished a little bit, listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And, tell you the truth, I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.” -Dan Rather
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“There’s not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.” -Curt Schilling
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“I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.” -Jason Statham
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“The families of many athletes – incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall – are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.” -Jeffrey Kluger
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“I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.” -Shimon Peres
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“I played sports year around: basketball, soccer, softball and I ran track year around, from the time I was, like, six, seven.” -Gabrielle Union
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“My chief gifts are – naturally good at all sports with a raw talent for pretty much everything, which if nurtured could develop into improper talent.” -Michael Sheen
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“A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.” -Jimmy Cannon
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“The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports – football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.” -Novak Djokovic
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“Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don’t get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we’re almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.” -Venus Williams
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“I would love to be associated with some sports organization. I was a journalism major. That’s kind of intriguing, to do something in the political-commentary arena.” -J. C. Watts
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“I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.” -Ricky Williams
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“I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn’t quite doing it for me. I wasn’t totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.”…
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“A significant piece of the wealth that the NFL owners garner is a result of the enormous TV revenues they get – and those revenues are supported by a legislatively granted exemption from the antitrust laws that has been made applicable to sports leagues, primarily the NFL.” -Eliot Spitzer
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“My sister is totally my dad’s daughter because she loves sports.” -Ashley Tisdale
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“I don’t necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It’s caring about something that’s utterly meaningless.” -Harlan Coben
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“There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.” -Harvey Weinstein
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“I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.” -Ed O’Neill
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“I had fun pretending to be a sportscaster. People always think that was a down thing for me. I had the best job in sports broadcasting for two years.” -Dennis Miller
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“I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.” -Shigeru Miyamoto
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“Team sports aren’t my thing. I find it easier to pick something up if I can do it at my own speed. And you don’t need a partner to go running, you don’t need a particular place, like in tennis, just a pair of trainers.” -Haruki Murakami
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“Sports have become increasingly more specialized, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be fun.” -Mia Hamm
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“I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.” -Gerald R. Ford
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“That’s the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.” -John Madden
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“The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.” -Howard Cosell
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“We’re not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.” -Calvin Klein
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“Don’t let anyone turn you into a slave. You’re a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.” -Benjamin Carson
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“The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.” -Billie Joe Armstrong
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“I think extreme sports are really good for relieving stress.” -Dave Chappelle
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“What drives me now is the fact that I feel like I still have so many tricks that I want to learn and so many things that I can still do. And so many cool things outside of sports that I have been doing.” -Shaun White
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“I am very slow to warm. I’ve always been sort of a loner. I didn’t play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.” -Rooney Mara
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“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.” -Lucy Powell
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“Don’t sell yourself short because without that you can’t go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can’t do anything else with that.” -Bo Jackson
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“Americans’ addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.” -Arlen Specter
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“I’m not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn’t good at sports, I wasn’t good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd.” -Mindy Kaling
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“I’m a mad lover of sport. You cannot say a bad word to me about sports. So I know business is involved and I know it can be cynical, and, of course, I watch it, but for me it’s pure.” -Hugh Jackman
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“When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.” -LeBron James
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“I’m sort of like a lame, single guy in a red sports car.” -Billy Corgan
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“I couldn’t find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.” -Ferdinand Porsche
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“The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it’s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria’s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.” -Heidi Klum
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“When you look at golf films before us they’re all – garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can’t beat him.” -Shia LaBeouf
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“I live by ‘Go big or go home.’ That’s with everything. It’s like either commit and go for it or don’t do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. That’s what I live by. That’s how I like…
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“I was always a sports nut but I’ve lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.” -John Cleese
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“I think exercise tests us in so many ways, our skills, our hearts, our ability to bounce back after setbacks. This is the inner beauty of sports and competition, and it can serve us all well as adult athletes.” -Peggy Fleming
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“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.” -Samuel Richardson
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“I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of ‘student-athletes.’ I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don’t believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that’s another story.” -Susan Orlean
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“It’s become another dimension to who I am. I don’t think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I’m at a different place in my life.” -Cindy Crawford
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“I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don’t know.” -Joan Jett
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“Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That’s like a sports thing, it’s not usually a comedy and writing thing.” -Louis C. K.
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“I’m girlie in the sense that I like makeup, but I also love sports and man food.” -Carrie Underwood
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“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual… and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.” -Wayne Gretzky
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“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.” -Demetri Martin
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“Honestly, I don’t listen to nobody else’s music but my own. It’s kind of like sports to me. You don’t see Kobe Bryant at a LeBron James game – he just works on his own game. And that’s what I do. I only listen to me, so I can criticize and analyze and all those…
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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” -Michel de Montaigne
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“I’m a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There’s others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there’s another type that’s not a visual thinker at all, and they’re the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather…
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“I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they’d be, what position they’d play and so on.” -Lou Holtz
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“I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.” -Richard M. Nixon
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“Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four.” -Chris Rock
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“Even if I did have, you know, a ‘Sports Illustrated’ body, I’d still wear elegant clothes.” -Adele
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“The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man’s moral nature.” -Thorstein Veblen
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“I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don’t want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.” -Hedy Lamarr
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“If you’re a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don’t have a choice.” -Jimmy Fallon
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“Don’t force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It’s the child’s desire to play that matters, not the parent’s desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.” -Tiger Woods
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“He’s got everything. He’ not a great player yet because he hasn’t won any major championships, but it’s a matter of time. He’s an outstanding talent. I didn’t realize how tall he is.” -Nick Price
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“Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.” -Roger Kahn
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“He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That’s where he’s getting his power from. He’s young and has great elasticity.” -Nick Faldo
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“He’s got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can’t wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.” -Gary McCord
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“What’s unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.” -Bob Verdi
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“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.” -Charley Lau
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“If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up.” -Tommy Bolt
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“If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.” -Marilyn Monroe
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“I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.” -Joel Osteen
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“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.” -H. L. Mencken
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“I’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.” -Angelina Jolie
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“Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples – where I’m pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly…
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“I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.” -Todd English
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“The American people are sheep. They’re comfortable, rich, working. It’s like the Romans, they’re happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.” -Jack Kevorkian
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“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.” -Frank Gifford
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“I went through baseball as ‘a player to be named later.’” -Joe Garagiola
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“Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.” -Peter Ueberroth
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“When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.” -Hugo Black
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“You know they’re not going to lose 162 consecutive games.” -Harry Caray
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“Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher.” -Ty Cobb
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“What’s a good tournament for him? Winning it. He’s good enough.” -Greg Norman
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“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.” -Harry Vardon
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“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.” -Jimmy Connors
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“You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.” -Greg LeMond
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“I’m not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.” -Whitey Herzog
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“Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.” -Juan Antonio Samaranch
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“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.” -Christy Mathewson
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“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” -Jim Bouton
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“Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don’t you?” -Ben Hogan
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“He’s going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That’s always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can’t handle it. But it looks like he can.” -Jack Nicklaus
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“Baseball life is a tough life on the family.” -Nolan Ryan
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“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.” -Sam Snead
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“I play in the low 80s. If it’s any hotter than that, I won’t play.” -Joe E. Lewis
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“Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.” -Doug Collins
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“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.” -George Deukmejian
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“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.” -Lee Trevino
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“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.” -Arnold Palmer
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“It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.” -Robert Wilson Lynd
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“Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.” -Norman Ralph Augustine
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“My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.” -Bill Toomey
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“There was endless action – not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk – the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.” -Charles Spalding
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“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.” -Grantland Rice
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“If you got the game, you got the game. That’s why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.” -Shaquille O’Neal
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“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.” -Joyce Carol Oates
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“Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.” -John Updike
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“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.” -Bill Veeck
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“The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.” -Bob Lemon
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“I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.” -Al McGuire
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“Sometimes in football you have to score goals.” -Thierry Henry
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“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” -Joseph Chilton Pearce
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“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.” -George Brett
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“Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.” -Joe Adcock
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“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.” -Warren Spahn
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“Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?” -Al Boliska
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“I’m a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.” -Sasha Cohen
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“I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.” -Rogers Hornsby
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“I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.” -Michael Phelps
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“The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.” -Hank Aaron
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“If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.” -Phil Jackson
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“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.” -Woodrow Wilson
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“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.” -Knute Rockne
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“It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.” -Pete Rose
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“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.” -Steve Garvey
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“Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.” -Jim Bishop
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“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.” -Martin Mull
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“You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.” -Joe DiMaggio
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“Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.” -Paul Coffey
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“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.” -Ernie Banks
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“Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.” -Red Auerbach
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“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.” -John Leonard
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“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.” -Mike Singletary
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“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.” -Jesse Owens
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“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.” -James Patrick Murray
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“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.” -Eric Liddell
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“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” -Jack Lemmon
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“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.” -Herbert Hoover
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