Sports Quotes
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King
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That's basically what I'm doing when I'm tapping them - getting my toes to the end of my shoes.
Nomar Garciaparra
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Never before has a major professional sports team partnered in this way with a female-driven brand like Bumble. It's an honor to partner with an organization as progressive and compassionate as the Clippers. Like us, they know generating awareness for diversity and gender equality is critical to business success.
Whitney Wolfe Herd
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I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
Roger Federer
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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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I'm a fastball hitter. It's no secret I'm looking for a fastball every pitch. I think it's one of the hardest things to do in sports-to hit a moving baseball.
Carlos Delgado
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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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Misery makes sport to mock itself.
William Shakespeare
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EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.
Claudio Reyna
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ABC Sports has a very strong legacy and sports fans understand it.
George Bodenheimer
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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.
John Skipper
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Downhill track sports like luge are technology battles, as exciting as a NASCAR qualifying day.
Alex Berenson
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...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.
Sheryl Swoopes
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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.
P. K. Subban
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I was the girl who got out of my athletic requirement by managing the boys' sports teams. Which is pretty ingenious, because when I was a sophomore, I got a prom date out of it. That was really strong planning on my part.
Ari Graynor
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People often say, 'Ah, ultimate fighting is so violent,' but it's rooted in martial arts. Martial arts incarnate respect. You can't walk into a dojo and say to your sensei, 'Hey, salut tabarnac!' After every one of my fights I go and shake the hand of my opponent. I don't need to hate the other fighter to fight him well. It's a sport.
Georges St-Pierre
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens.
Willa Cather
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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.
Althea Gibson
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Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
Jane Leavy
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Minor sports in the community is fun and recreation for everyone, not just the elite. I think back to my days in minor hockey and those are my fondest memories, having fun.
Bobby Orr
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Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.
Michael Rapaport
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
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Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
Troy Polamalu
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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