Sports Quotes
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King
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One of my goals is definitely to motivate the youth towards sports. Whether it's arts or academics, I just want to let them know that anything is possible. To think that I grew up as a WWE fan and now I'm a WWE champion proves that through hard work anything really is possible.
Jinder Mahal
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I like a deep sports massage - a casual beating up. I try to get them whenever I can, usually more if I'm getting in shape for a role.
Chris Pine
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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.
Ai Weiwei
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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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I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be leadership or it won't be successful.
John Wooden
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If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.
Hal Borland
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I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.
Eric Hutchinson
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Monday Night Football started in 1970, and when it started, it was something extremely special because sports had not been aired in prime time. So, it was a novelty, and a lot of people thought it wouldn't work, and, of course, it worked spectacularly well.
Al Michaels
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When I was really young, I can remember being into fashion, but I was really into horses and sports.
Kendall Jenner
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Billie Jean King
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I'm always trying to make myself a better sports entertainer.
Dolph Ziggler
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Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?
Jerry Reinsdorf
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My parents were very supportive of my chess. When I got home after a game of chess, having missed school or something, they always made me feel very welcome; I didn't feel guilty at all about pursuing chess with such fervour. They never, for instance, perceived sports as a rival to academics.
Viswanathan Anand
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Try, if you can, to belong to the first class. There's far less competition.
Dwight Morrow
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Every time you write anything, at least half your readers are going to disagree with you. A big part of sports writing is how you respond to that tension.
Joe Posnanski
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Sport is not my thing.
Rupert Friend
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In the morning, I reach for the sports page.
Lisa Guerrero
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The only consistent hobby I've had is studying Spanish and French because of some delusion of grandeur to work around the world. I love sports but usually I'm looking for the next job.
William Sanderson
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One of the most common misconceptions about Olympic sports is that they only happen at the Olympics.
Lauren Gibbs
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When I was young, I never thought I was going to be a writer! I was academically orientated and active at sports, but I didn't have one creative bone in my body.
Amish Tripathi
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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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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