Sports Quotes
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I've always been really active. I grew up playing sports, so I'm always shooting hoops or throwing the football with my friends. I'm super-active in that sense.
Taylor Lautner
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I hit my knees and I went to him with that and I said God I want to do what you want. I don't want sports to be an idol in my life.
Ben Zobrist
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If I can stay [involved] with the sport, we can find different ways to motivate people and preach to them and explain to them that all they need is dedication to the sport.
Usain Bolt
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The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved.
Eric Braeden
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Your body's really only meant to compete at the highest levels of combat sports for a few years.
Joe Rogan
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That's what we need nowadays, is more children that have goals other than being a sports figure or some kind of celebrity.
Joe Nichols
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
Gail Collins
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Part of what a good dad can do, then, is to make sure that his daughter also gets involved with team sports, and to help her with the lessons in life that are innate to any team empowering itself. –page119.
Warren Farrell
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I never use the word 'hero' in sports. Hero is way above 'star.' I save 'star' for sports. Sports is entertainment; that's all it is.
Bud Grant
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You cannot win if you cannot run.
Hank Stram
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Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if they don't have a 4.0 GPA, score in the 99th percentile on admissions tests, and demonstrate leadership in sports and participate in clubs, they won't get into college anywhere. Even highly credentialed professionals get caught up in this.
Elizabeth Thornton
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My love for sports will never die. I love martial arts and I want to promote it in whichever way I can. I am a fighter first, then an actor.
Akshay Kumar
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I played three sports in high school, baseball, football and basketball. Baseball really helped me a lot.
Calvin Pryor
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As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion.
Marion Jones
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It was a great game if you don't care who won. I cared.
Lou Holtz
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I was socially isolated as a kid. I had friends, but I wasn't very good at sports and that sort of thing so I became quite comfortable being by myself, exploring. The world was my private playground, and in it, I was supreme. Darwin, Faraday, Huxley and other great scientists were my companions.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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I've grown up in a small town, and I played a lot of sports, so it was always between music and sports. People would ask me, 'What would you choose?' And I was always like, 'I don't know.'
Brynn Cartelli
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It's a little bit in the genes because my brother is a journalist and my father was a sports writer.
Patricia Heaton
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It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
Joe Gibbs
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I'm not a big sports fan.
Harlan Coben
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We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can't do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.
David Duval
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Even when I played sports when I was little, I played to win. Otherwise, what's the point of putting the pads on and going to practice? I don't understand.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
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I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.
Steve Fossett
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The growth of women's soccer and women's sports all around the world has been slow.
Abby Wambach