Sports Quotes
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As hard as you try and create narratives about sports, once the ball is in the air, there's not a damn thing you can do about it, it's just very real.
Ian MacKaye -
I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team.
Jon Gruden
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
Lou Holtz -
We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
Wilt Chamberlain -
WWE is the epitome of Sports Entertainment; it gets no bigger than this. So, whether you are on 'Raw' or on 'SmackDown,' the level of talent that we have on both sides is second to none.
Jinder Mahal -
We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
John McEnroe -
I always excelled in sports, so I knew I had advantages there. That really gave me, like, confidence and self-esteem.
Joel McHale -
I was a big sports fan, and I had been closely monitoring Hank Aaron's home run totals since I was a kid playing on the sandlot adjacent to the Foundry and Machine Company in Batavia, Illinois.
Craig Sager
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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 -
I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.
Alex Morgan -
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 -
The perfect Christmas gift for a sportscaster, as all fans of sports clichés know, is a scoreless tie.
William Lewis Safir -
Video games and outdoor sports - that was my childhood.
Mark Pincus -
Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Lucy Powell
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I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.
Neil Peart Rush -
Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn't fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn't find a niche. And music was not really part of the kind of village curriculum it would, you know.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
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.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
I don't watch TV but occasionally I'll read the Washington Post. I will say that sports are the only "real thing" on television.
Ian MacKaye -
The Olympics are never just about sports.
George Packer -
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
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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 -
Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.
John Gregory Dunne -
When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I'd be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I'd, like, miss the ball going past me.
Kendall Jenner -
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