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.
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Because I'd grown up with this singular focus on sports, I just kind of did that with acting. That became an obsession. How am I going to make it? How am I going to figure that out?
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Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.
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Alone I walked on the ocean strand, A pearly shell was in my hand; I stooped, and wrote upon the sand My name, the year, the day. As onward from the sport I passed, One lingering look behind I cast, A wave came rolling high and fast, And washed my lines away.
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Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
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With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.
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Misery makes sport to mock itself.
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NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.
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Maybe because I am from a sports background, I don't give up easily. I am a fighter.
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I believe God created sports for a good reason. It's recreation. It's something that we enjoy. It teaches us a lot as well... I believe God is a sports fan.
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Brand matters. And ESPN is, by far, the most popular sports brand. People trust ESPN.
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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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Hockey is still my favourite sport. I think that might be part of what makes me successful. I don't live or die by racquetball, so I can detach from it when needed. I'm all about all sports.
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Hockey is an art. It requires speed, precision, and strength like other sports, but it also demands an extraordinary intelligence to develop a logical sequence of movements, a technique which is smooth, graceful and in rhythm with the rest of the game.
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One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.
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There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports.
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One reason outfielders don't have stronger arms might be they don't practice as much as we did. Most teams today don't take outfield practice. Another reason is baseball has to compete with other sports now - basketball, football, soccer - for the better athletes that might have more skills and stronger arms.
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I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
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Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
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It's funny; I'm in some ways hopelessly masculine, but I don't fish, I don't hunt, I'm not that into sports. I can't fix a car. I think it's my point of view and the way I see the world.
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I have my parents to thank for that, they raised me to be active and play all sports. They taught me the importance of staying healthy, being focused and setting goals in whatever I do.
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Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.
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I played sports growing up, and I worked out a lot. Then, when I moved back to L.A., I just fell off everything.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
