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.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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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.
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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.
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And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events.
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Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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It's stupid to say that there's any comfort to be had in 'knowing your place,' but there is a sense of reassuring escapism to something like 'Downton Abbey.' There's a perceived romance and elegance that is wonderful to lose yourself in.
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The digitization of human beings will make a parody out of 'doctor knows best.'
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I can only say that I myself wrote always as I wished, without a tremendous desire to find the latest thing possible.
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A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.
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Every time I make a movie I have too many characters and too many locations.
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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.
