Sports Quotes
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I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.
Emma Donoghue
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NPR allowed me to treat sports seriously, as another branch on the tree of culture.
Frank Deford
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Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.
Brian Regan
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The concussion crisis has changed the face of sports as we know it and it has brought to surface the incredible importance of our brain health. The time is now for us to make our brain the number one priority so that education and awareness can take effect, and begin to change the way we approach the health of our athletes from youth to professionals.
Ben Utecht
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I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really.
Retief Goosen
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
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I was one of those kids who, everything I tried sports-related, I liked.
Ashton Eaton
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Sports passion is deeply, infamously territorial: our city-state is better than your city-state because our city-state's team beat your city-state's team. My attachment to the Sonics is approximately the reverse of this.
David Shields
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The hallmark of a great captain is the ability to win the toss, at the right time.
Richie Benaud
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If you play college sports, it's not like you have to - the next step in your career is another sport. You don't have to go into another sport. If you play college sports, you obviously graduated with a degree.
Bobby Lashley
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I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald
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Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.
Mirai Nagasu
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I think sports is a quest to find out what really is - not what perceptions are.
Eddie Alvarez
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Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.
John McEnroe
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On a selfish basis, I really enjoy sports and activity.
Alan Thicke
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I'm a huge sports fan. I love the psychology of athletes and the culture of athletics. I'm constantly drawn to those kinds of stories.
Peter Berg
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First we become the best, then we'll become first.
Lou Holtz
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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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Until my senior year, baseball and basketball were my best sports; and even when I was a senior, I still wanted to play baseball professionally. But the family wanted me to go to college, and I guess I agreed with them, or else I would have accepted some of the offers I got.
Joe Namath
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I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.
Hedy Lamarr
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Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
Willa Cather
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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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I remember my first 'Sports Illustrated' shoot was with the photographer Walter Iooss, and Julie Campbell was the editor, and we were at the president of Mexico's private house in Cancun - this was before anything else that's now in Cancun even existed. And they told me to get a tan, so I spent all morning in the sun, and I was burnt.
Christie Brinkley
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I myself am frustrated in just where sports are at. It's a hard thing when you're out there working every day, and you know that someone else is cheating and they may not necessarily get caught.
Allyson Felix