Sports Quotes
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When I get into a bad mood, I do sports and then everything's OK. And then I go and make decisions, however painful they may be.
Dmitry Medvedev
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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
Dave Grohl Nirvana
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I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.
Chad Harbach
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I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.
Bob Beamon
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I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving!
Witney Carson
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If you want experiences to make you a better person, then you play two or three sports.
Jim Brown
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I try to stay level-headed and it's always the way I've been. Sometimes your personality out in the real world, you want to take that into your sport because that's where you feel comfortable. You never want to try to do something that's not you or you don't feel comfortable doing. That's where you get in trouble. It's the only way I've played sports and done things. I'm low-key, but I'm very competitive and hate to lose.
Eli Manning
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Playing the sport has taught me about teamwork and how to be a good team player, social skills and most importantly, dedication.
P. K. Subban
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Mountaineering is a complex and unique way of life, interweaving elements of sport, art and mysticism. Success or failure depends on the ebb and flow of immense inspiration. Detecting a single rule governing this energy is difficult - it arises and vanishes like the urge to dance and remains as mysterious as the phenomenon of life itself.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
Dietrich Mateschitz
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
Joel Osteen
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I come from a small town in Ohio and was always into sports.
Jake Paul
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Kodokan is, to a large degree, a trendsetter in the sport. This school trained outstanding masters and is a kind of Mecca for all judokas. Certainly, I would be pleased to visit, if time permits.
Vladimir Putin
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For a kid, self-esteem can be as close at hand as a sports victory or a sense of belonging in a peer group. It's a much more complicated and elusive proposition for adults, subject to the responsibilities and vicissitudes of grown-up life.
Meghan Daum
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Let's face it: in advertising, you are paid more, but you die younger. It's not very forgiving. Like sports stars, you're in it during your better years, and then you're out looking for work.
Jerry Della Femina
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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
Willie Stargell
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It's even harder to stay at the top in sports than it is to get there.
Babe Didrikson Zaharias
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I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Martina Hingis
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I play a lot of sports. I'm not real good at any of them. I'm above adequate.
Kevin Nealon
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Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
Tim Ferriss
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I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of 'Playboy' was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.
Jasmine Tookes
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After I suffered a labral tear in my hip while playing soccer, I realized that many sports-related injuries can be prevented and I dedicated myself to helping young athletes learn more about injury prevention.
Cobi Jones
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Tennis is more than just a sport. It's an art, like the ballet. Or like a performance in the theater.
Bill Tilden
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I know that some of the finest writing I've ever read has been sports writing, whatever the topic was, whatever the sport they were writing about. It seems to be an area where people are allowed a little more leeway than when they're reporting on traffic jams and city-council meetings.
Katherine Dunn