Sports Quotes
  
  
  
	
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		I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I like to study what it does to us, why we care so much. It's caring about something that's utterly meaningless.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harlan Coben
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork drills, body positions, angles and geometry. All that stuff is helpful, and so when I do other sports, I can see things, because once you know one sport, then the other sport becomes more clear.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Martina Navratilova
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		To find a man's true character, play golf with him.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. G. Wodehouse
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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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		My dad always played sports. He played football. I always wanted to play football because my dad played football, but my mom never wanted me to play football because she said she couldn't take me getting hit.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				DeMar DeRozan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		As I get older, I find myself way more into sports. I'm in a basketball league. You maybe know some of the people in it. They're real people, not fake ones like me.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Bryan Greenberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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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 remember being, like, 5 years old, and my dad took me to a Yankees-Mets game. My dad had me on his shoulders and taught me one of the most important lessons about sports. He said, 'Jesse, just remember one thing, the Mets suck.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jesse McCartney
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		My father was an athlete, a great athlete, fought in the Marines in World War I. He was all sports and activity. My mother was all academics. I still have the complete works of Shakespeare that she had.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marv Levy
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Katherine Schwarzenegger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The things you learn from sports - setting goals, being part of a team, confidence - that's invaluable. It's not about trophies and ribbons. It's about being on time for practice, accepting challenges and being fearful of the elements.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Summer Sanders
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The Rope a Dope would not have existed without the Big Dope.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				George Foreman
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Nate Holland
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Huey Lewis
			
			
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		Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jim Sensenbrenner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Joe Rogan
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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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.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Jeffrey Kluger
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Arthur Ashe