Sports Quotes
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Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.
Georges St-Pierre
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I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio.
Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
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Eating wheat, like ice climbing, mountain boarding, and bungee jumping, is an extreme sport. It is the only common food that carries its own long-term mortality rate.
William Davis
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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
Lucy Powell
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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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Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.
John Theodore
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But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
LeBron James
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Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of success, as America's growing celebrity culture turned a simple Irish American gladiator into a national, in fact international hero. A very human story with profound parallels for our sports-obsessed culture today!
Nigel Hamilton
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I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.
Minka Kelly
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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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Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.
Sean Durkin
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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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As the render is to the building, and the blueprint to the machine, so sport is to social existence.
Will Self
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The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.
William Cowper
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Skating is one of those sports you unfortunately see people get stuck in.
Ashley Wagner
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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
