Sports Quotes
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Professional sports is a business.
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You are the real teachers. You have these children when they are at their emotional peaks and lows. That's when they are the most pliable. It doesn't take any intelligence to send a kid home with his head hanging between his knees. But to send him home with his head up every night might show a little coaching.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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Before Huey was 5, I could take him to work with me. Now, though, he has sports and lessons and friends, and it's not fair to remove him from his whole life.
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Sports is expensive, and you have to find a way to pay for it.
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Life without sports is like life without underpants.
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I would like to do a sports movie.
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I never did allow anything to keep me from my kids. They're the most important part of my life.
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Life is one big transition.
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Sports are never just sports, we all know that. You're always carrying the flag in some way, shape or form.
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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.
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I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.
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At school I fought sometimes. Kids were saying that figure skating is sport for the girls. Then I had to prove them wrong.
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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.
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All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.
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Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.
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I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream.
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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.
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My policy was just to give good things for sports in my region.
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But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.
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Recently, my dad has been teaching me a lot - like how to read a script. It used to just be about hockey or baseball or sports of whatever. We don't have glitzy or glamour-y Hollywood-type talk, like, 'Isn't that person great?' It's more about the process of how it works.
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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.
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Confidence is a big part of any sport, but as far as sports psycholgy, I met with one last year before the season, and hell I just felt stupid after that, so I try to stay out of there.
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Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.
