Sports Quotes
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I think sports has done a disservice for a lot of black kids thinking they can only be successful through athletics and entertainment. I want them to know they can be doctors, lawyers, teachers, fireman, police officers, etc.
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I enjoy sports in person.
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The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
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The way you motivate a football team is to eliminate the unmotivated ones.
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It's not my job to motivate players. They bring extraordinary motivation to our program. It's my job not to de-motivate them. Lou Holtz
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Don't like when sports interviewers force answers: Are you dedicating this game to your sick grandmother? What's the guy supposed to say?
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Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.
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Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other.
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A day without newspapers is like walking around without your pants on.
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The BBC sports department when I was there was seriously to the right of Ghengis Khan, and if people think I am strange, they should have met some of the production staff I worked with. Margaret Thatcher and the Queen were the pin up girls for many of them.
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I like to get home, flop on the couch, and watch Sky Sports News. I'm just your average bloke.
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Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.
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Nothing is as good as it seems and nothing is as bad, but somewhere between reality falls.
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The sad thing is that I know no athletes' names. I am not a sports girl at all.
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You'll be dedicated and that's what you should want to be in anything in life - whether it's sports or academics or your relationship. It all stems from finding that fun, that thrill, that excitement.
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I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.
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Every single model wants to be in 'Sports Illustrated,' and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.
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I always find sports-related ways to stay in shape.
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When I'm directing actors, I often find myself slipping in sports metaphors, like: 'Don't go for the punch line here, just put it up on a T-ball stand so she can hit it out of the park.'
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In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
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There's nothing I missed out on. I do everything a normal kid does. My parents keep me grounded. I still play sports. I still go to a rec center every day.
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I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey.
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I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.
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In the field of outdoor sports, the American boy is easily capable of devising his own amusements, and until some proof is adduced that baseball is not his invention, I protest against this systematic effort to rob him of his dues.
