Sports Quotes
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I think that pop, and to some extent rock, are like sport and fashion industry in that they're about the exuberance of youth. That's the sort of subliminal ideology.
Robert Wyatt
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A sports writer is a stylist of some kind. He is trying to convey mood and character and emotion.
David Shields
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It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
Willie Mays
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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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You need to work very hard, you have to spend a lot of time practicing your sport - six to seven hours daily.
Sergei Bubka
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It's important for girls to feel strong and powerful even when they're playing sports.
Christen Press
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Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!
William Cowper
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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I am totally involved with music, but my goal is to do the sports thing.
Malik Izaak Taylor A Tribe Called Quest
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Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, theres a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe theres another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.
Harsha Bhogle
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Nellie Bly
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Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
Richie Benaud
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Every woman I know in the broadcast business worked hard so we can talk about sports, not talk about us talking about sports. Ultimately, that's the goal. When the game starts, it's just a game.
Beth Mowins
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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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My commitment to Atlanta and passion for sports and competition make this acquisition a perfect fit for me.
Arthur Blank
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When you have a background in combat sports, people think you're this martial arts expert, but really I'm just a guy who is able to do certain things without making a mess of himself.
Rick Yune
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The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.
Lindsey Shaw
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There are lots of guns and action in my drawings, and part of that is just to make them more interesting. Because you can go through a whole film and it's mostly talking heads and little else until the action scenes, and they're usually violence or physical stuff. Same with baseball, or any sport. Except I find pitching and batting are visually very striking.
Raymond Pettibon Black Flag
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I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
Retief Goosen
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Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.
Lou Holtz
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The rich plankton of pop heroes and pop villains on which we Americans are accustomed to feed, the daily media soup of sports figures, ax murderers, politicians, and rock singers, the ever-running river of celebs, heavies, and oddballs that we use to spice up our own relatively humdrum lives has of late become a very watery gruel. Where have all the good guys and bad guys gone? Why does everyone out there look so gray?
Shana Alexander
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There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'Daily Telegraph' and 'Daily Mail' were all regular fixtures on the coffee table. I used to enjoy reading 'The Times' editorial pages and the 'Daily Mail' sports pages.
Lionel Barber
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Size and synergies between the different segments of the company matter. As far as we are concerned, the Internet is broadening our opportunity, as well as for other big media companies with huge resources in sports, entertainment and news. There's just more opportunity.
Rupert Murdoch
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I always knew I wanted to do it broadcast. I was always playing sports and I talked a lot too.
Beth Mowins