Sports Quotes
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If there has not been such a thing as gymnastics, I would have had to invent it because I feel at one with the sport.
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The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
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My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer.
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Soccer is a great game, and the rich variety of styles and passions that come with being truly global makes the World Cup a nonpareil event in the universe of competitive sport.
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Women's combat sports have been on a good run in the United States. Claressa Shields won a gold medal in women's boxing at the London Olympics in 2012, when it became a medal sport. American women won medals in taekwondo and judo as well.
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I would advise kids not to play any sports, such as tackle football, where they are exposed to repeated blows to the head.
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Our parents helped us, or we wouldn't be here. Lacy Van Zant and my mother used to sign for amps or loan us money to get to the gig or take us in their car. It's just like little sports guys - Little League and football players - whose parents help them. That's why they get good.
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One of the biggest gaps in sports is the difference between the winning and losing teams of the Super Bowl. They don't invite the losing team to the White House. They don't have parades for them. They don't throw confetti on them.
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I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.
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Even though I started off being interested in news, and I spent 13 years of my career working in television sports, I always was passionate about television and movies.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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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.
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I love being outdoors, water sports, hiking - really, anything that keeps me moving!
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I clearly remember my father cutting our jumpers and our sports clothes with scissors - because he didn't want us to wear jogging bottoms and hoodies. He thought that would somehow set the police on us.
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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.
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When I create a sports costume, I remember that it must not look - how do you say? - 'bedraggled.'
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My father was a very special human being. He was brilliant in academics, sports and the arts. He wrote, performed and directed plays in English and Hindi/Urdu at his regiment.
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Sports cars from the '50s and '60s are my favorites.
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I've always had a foot in everything. As a kid, I was active in sports and theater. Now, I'm learning I have to focus a bit. I'm trying to get to next projects, like writing a screenplay. Once that comes together, I could put my mind to another book - maybe a fun kids' book.
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It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
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In many U.S. schools, sports instilled leadership and persistence in one group of kids while draining focus and resources from academics for everyone. The lesson wasn't that sports couldn't coexist with education; it was that sports had nothing to do with education.
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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.
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Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.
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Most of us have had that experience - at around puberty - of realising that, despite whatever efforts we put into our chosen sports, we will become at best competent.
