Sports Quotes
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I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own.
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Soccer and cricket were my main sports growing up. I had trials as a soccer player with a few clubs interested, Crystal Palace being one, but it was cricket which became my chosen profession.
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We are essentially in the business of telling stories. We would like to think that most of our stories are basically human stories with sports as a backdrop.
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To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
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The long-term value of amplifying the intelligence of people is a lot more important than betting on sports.
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If you don't demand that your people maintain. High performances to remain on your team, Why should they be proud of the association?
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I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city.
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The way I represent my individuality is by mixing classic pieces - like sports jackets - with little, unexpected additions.
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Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.
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A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set.
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I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.
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As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
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Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.
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It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.
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Immigrants use debt intelligently. They understand the difference between active debt: creating a business, or something to make business better, and dead debt: buying that new sports car or the 60 inch television. Those things don't lead to the good life. They delay getting it.
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Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.
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Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.
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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
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The key to any good sports story is identifying the defining moment. In football games or a boxing match, it's usually pretty obvious. But in golf, sometimes it happens on Thursday. Usually it's Sunday, but guys who don't know the game, they can miss it.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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I can tell you, I grew up with great coaching, and it had nothing to do with sports. I had great parents. I really got some great input from there. They were entrepreneurial, middle-class business people.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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When you have a father and a mother who work all their lives so you can have an education and build your body - it's a blessing.
