Sports Quotes
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My thing I liked was to challenge guys that were smaller, guys that were supposed to be quicker. Because I think self-consciously I was trying to prove to people it wasn't just my height that was getting me across in these various sports. It was some other intrinsic things that I had that made me a good athlete.
Wilt Chamberlain
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Maybe Asians are switching from studying to sports.
Mirai Nagasu
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I've always been around dudes and sports.
Lisa Guerrero
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We are become Middle Men, of the Twilight, but with memory of other things. For as the Rohirrim do, we now love war and valour as things good in themselves, both a sport and an end; and though we still hold that a warrior should have more skills and knowledge than only the craft of weapons and slaying, we esteem a warrior, nonetheless, above men of other crafts. Such is the need of our days.
Faramir
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'The Iliad' includes some snappy sports reporting, and writers ever since have been probing athletes for signifiers, for metaphor amped by grit under pressure.
Katherine Dunn
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An athlete must have a sound and trained body, and only after, indulge in sport he prefers.
Albert Azaryan
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I like physical exercise. I actually like sports in general. I really like snowboarding and playing soccer, too.
Valentino Rossi
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If you're doing a column, you kind of have to. Like in the back of Sports Illustrated, Rick Reilly has to find something to be mad about. It's not really the way I approach things.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.
Todd English
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Don't be sharp or flat; just be natural.
Willie Stargell
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You have to have passion for anything you do. Whether it's sports, whether it's music, whether you want to be Mother Theresa, you have to have passion for what it is you do, or what's the point in getting up in the morning and getting out of bed?
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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Unless you're a vegan freak of nature like Tony Gonzalez, I don't think you can play sports much past your early 30s.
Jeff Ament
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I'm a golf junkie, but I'm a sports fan. I'll watch pretty much everything that's on.
Stephen Curry
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Never put an age limit on your dreams.
Dara Torres
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Sports like sailing, rowing, and bobsled have long vexed spectators and television producers.
Mary Pilon
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If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.
John Major