Sports Quotes
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Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win.
Charles Duhigg
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I was skinny and black and didn't play sports. And I was bullied.
Ashton Sanders
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When I got injured, I think I was starting to sense that there was more to the world than just sports. This dream of playing professional soccer probably wasn't the best track for me.
Eric Swalwell
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I was a pretty normal high school kid. I just loved to play sports and had opportunities, and the Lord blessed me with talent, and I just tried to take advantage of it.
Matt Holliday
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The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
Bob Varsha
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Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.
Lucy Walker
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I've always been around dudes and sports.
Lisa Guerrero
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I'm actually a fan of all of the EA Sports titles like 'Tiger Woods,' 'Madden,' and I'm really looking forward to buying 'NBA Street V3.'
John Cena
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My first obsession was actually sports. I was a very good handball goalkeeper. With special permission, I played in the premier league in Germany before I was even old enough.
Peter Lindbergh
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I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.
Elliot Page
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There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.
Dietrich Mateschitz
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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.
Olga Korbut
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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.
Mary Pilon
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Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.
Lesley Visser
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The movie - any sports movie - becomes a praise song to life here on earth, to physical existence itself, beyond striving, beyond economic necessity.
David Shields
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Athletics are not my wheelhouse because sports were mean to this uncoordinated kid growing up, a 6-foot-2 14-year-old who never could do a layup.
Brad Garrett
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Access to sports is an important part of a well-rounded education, and it takes committed communities and companies like Dick's to make a real difference in kids' lives.
Charles Best
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I always had this curiosity about acting, but I was really into sports, and I never really thought about acting as a career. My senior year, I tried out for the high school production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' and that was it for me.
John DeLuca
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It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.
John Arbuthnot
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Here's my take: People watch sports to get away from day-to-day stresses, work, illness, financial worries. We don't need to be reminded of political divisions.
Jeanine Pirro
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If you see in sports at a super high level, people get hurt or have injuries when there isn't that pleasure, the true pleasure of the sport, when they're tired or demoralized or they're not quite focused.
David Belle
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'Course the world of sports takes itself way too serious. Sports writers are all high and mighty.
Artie Lange
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I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.
Erik Weihenmayer
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The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking their lives - everything you need for a great sports drama.
Asif Kapadia