William Finnegan Quotes

Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

William Finnegan

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• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.

  

  Larry Hagman
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• In sports, teams win and individuals don't.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  

  Yogi Berra
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• I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
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• I would hope there would be a greater appreciation by casual sports fans of the incredible skill and passion of our players.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
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• We live in a world where sports have the potential to bridge the gap between racism, sexism and discrimination. The 2012 Olympic Games was a great start but hopefully what these games taught us is that if women are given an opportunity on an equal playing field the possibilities for women are endless.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • World
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• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
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• If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.

  

  Ed Bradley
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• Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.

  

  Ice Cube
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• People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.

  

  Ralph Baer
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• I thought I would be a sports announcer. All I was was a curious kid who wanted to be on the radio.

  

  Larry King
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• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
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• My childhood was a happy one. I was captain of the school sports team and played cricket after class. I had five younger siblings and a large loving family that lived together. We are still very close.

  

  Naeem Khan
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• Well, I'm not a big sports fan.

  

  Jeff Bridges
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• Besides acting, I love reading books, dancing, singing, and following a few sports. My favorite sport is tennis. I love travelling, and I see a new place every year. Luckily, my job helps me do that very easily. In my spare time, I also spend time watching English TV shows like 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Modern Family,' 'House MD' and a few others.

  

  Pooja Hegde
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• I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.

  

  Jeremiah P. Ostriker
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• I am not afraid if people think Matt LeBlanc in 'Episodes' is who I am - my friends and family know who I am.

  

  Matt LeBlanc
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• Everyone has to find their own way, it's just that I don't want to go that way myself. If a band likes being on a major and feels happy there, good luck to them.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Good
  • Happy
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• Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

  

  William Finnegan
  • Sports
  • Surfing
  • Surf