Willie Stargell (Pops) Quotes
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There is no 'natural' order, only the way things are.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
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Know or listen to those who know.
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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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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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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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It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
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All people have a natural desire to be needed, to have their importance to others tangibly confirmed.
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Males have probably always enjoyed watching the defeat of other males, but without the invention of numerals and the subsequent invention of the concept of keeping score, we could never have had a million sports channels.
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
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When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
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We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.
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Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.
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I'm not a big crier.
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The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.
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There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.
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Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
