Sports Quotes
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
Billie Jean King
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We never make sport of religion, politics, race or mothers. A mother never gets hit with a custard pie. Mothers-in-law-yes. But mothers-never.
Michael Sinnott
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I bought my wife Leighanne a silver BMW Z8 sports car one Christmas and tied it up with a big red bow in the driveway of our house.
Brian Littrell
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The entire existence of the NFL - and of football at any level, for all of that - rests on whether or not the game can keep fooling itself, and its paying fan base, that it is somehow superior to boxing and to the rest of our modern blood sports.
Charlie Pierce
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I had grand visions of being in professional sports. But when reality set in, I went, 'Oh, OK. I'll just move to Hollywood and be an actor.' I didn't want to look back on my life and wonder, 'What if I had done this? Or I had done that?'
Bailey Chase
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
Dan Gilbert
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I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.
Venus Williams
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I'm proud of the fact that besides being known as a successful former football player, I've also worked hard to establish myself as a successful businessman, network broadcaster, sports & entertainment executive and philanthropist.
Warren Moon
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I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.
Jana Kramer
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In all sports, people get competitive; things happen that shouldn't happen.
Gary Lineker
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Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.
Mary Pipher
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I do appreciate a woman who has a passion for sports and knows their stuff.
Jerry Ferrara
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I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.
H. G. Bissinger
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The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I'd always loved sports, and the Olympics were something I thought about often as a kid, but those dreams felt like a lifetime ago.
Lauren Gibbs
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The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.
George Foreman
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
Gary Lineker
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Sports is my passion.
Kapil Dev
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Soccer is one of those sports that pulls in a universal audience in terms of demographics.
Tanc Sade
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I would say I was into two sports as a kid: basketball and baseball.
Adam Silver
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Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
Adrian Anthony Gill
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I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.
Johnny Simmons
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When doing sports... on the water, it's crucial to stop aging by protecting your skin.
Christie Brinkley
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You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door.
Jim Lampley