Sports Quotes
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Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.
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Who needs sports stardom when you can shoot fireballs from your fingertips?
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I started, actually, in journalism when I was - well. I started at the 'New York Times' when I was 18 years old, actually, but really got into journalism when I was 15 years old and had started a sports magazine which was trying to become a national sports magazine.
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I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.
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Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.
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As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game
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Professional bodybuilding is a sport of total dedication. You must dedicate every aspect of every day to the attainment of your goals if you want to succeed. It is not enough to merely go to the gym to "work out." You must put all of your concentration and focus on each rep, on each set, on each exercise to have a successful workout.
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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.
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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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I've heard people say my swing's not perfect, and I know that. But golf's a natural sport, very sensitive. It's played a lot by feel. I don't care if my swing is too flat. If it works, I don't have to change it.
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Put your name on something, it better be the best... you only get one shot.
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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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I work 12 to 14 hours a day, and in the spare time I do sport.
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It's amazing what we remember as sports fans, right?
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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.
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My father was a basketball player, so I loved basketball because he did. It was a direct transference. But, more than that, basketball, in the United States at least, plays the same function that soccer does everyone else in the world. It's the sport of poverty. It's the sport born of poverty. It's the cheapest sport.
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Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.
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I was such a dork in high school. I like - I played sports. I played in the symphony. I auditioned all the time. I was thrown off the sports teams for auditioning all the time.
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Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.
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Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
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I still think that there's some kind of psychological investment in black athletes carrying the flag for "us" at times. So, sports [remains a] metaphor for struggle and triumph and flair.
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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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I'm a sucker for sports movies.
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I think that in figure skating, and in sports in general, that when you're young, it's considered a huge advantage because you're fearless, and you also don't have bad past experiences. But with age comes experience, and I have found that my experience is a huge advantage to me as a competitor.
