Sports Quotes
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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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God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
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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.
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Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.
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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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I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.
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One of my first jobs was at the Boston Globe. I worked in the sports department six months a year. When I was ready to graduate, the sports editor gave me a job as a schoolboy sports writer.
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I enjoy sports. I get a real joy from playing sports but I don't look for those movies. Oliver Stone wanted to know if I would do Any Given Sunday and it just didn't appeal to me.
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I don't really pretend to know what's going on, but I've been immersed in the excitement of watching sports, particularly football. I like baseball, probably more than football.
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ABC Sports has a very strong legacy and sports fans understand it.
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I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.
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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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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
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Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
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One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while.
Mark Spitz -
Theater and sports are connected. You've got your team - or ensemble - your goal and your determination to win.
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Sports psychology or mental training has been viewed as a weakness, and I think that's a pretty silly way to look at it.
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I've paid the price over the years, though: a lot of injuries and surgeries related to my sports career; my hips and knees took a lot of wear and tear.
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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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Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.
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Sports fans have an unbelievable ability at the end of the day, when the game comes on, to kind of put everything aside and watch the game.
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Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."
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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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I love kids, outings, camping, sports, Legoland, all the Daddy stuff. I love it. I wish I could just do that, but I have to work, too.
