Sports Quotes
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Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
Troy Polamalu -
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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Even now, I want to keep my amateur spirit, to spend my time, to be in the sport with all my heart.
Sergei Bubka -
I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill.
Erma Bombeck -
Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?
Sarah Dessen -
Like any sport, if you can clinch it sooner, clinch it sooner. It just makes the celebration that much sweeter.
Kasey Keller -
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 -
Contrary to popular belief, there are actually quite a few guys in the action sports community that have faith and are Christians.
Nicholas Charles Goepper
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...as far as self-discipline goes, it's still ultimately up to me how well I can push myself. Only I can do that. I just have to keep on going, keep on working, keep on improving.
Sheryl Swoopes -
There are quite a few things that the devil could tempt me with... I could be tempted by youth if I was allowed to hold on to all the wisdom that I've gotten. In everything, not just sports. In life. In acting. I'd be tempted by youth only so I could continue doing it a little longer.
George Clooney -
I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.
Stefan Edberg -
Writing well about sports is as difficult as writing well about sex.
John Gregory Dunne -
There are very few sports where you can find that tranquility. Some people find that in golf, but when you're in the water it's such a difference from the golf course or the basketball court. That's what makes surfing unique over any other sport.
Troy Polamalu -
Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.
Tommy Hilfiger
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One study found that volunteering actually makes people feel they have more time, not less. A good weekend usually involves more than just passive leisure, like spectator sports or binge-watching The Crown. What's more edifying are activities that generate meaning or purpose.
Katrina Onstad -
I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.
Stefan Edberg -
One of the hardest parts of practice is the criticism a player takes from his coaches. Some players think a coach has it in for them when a flaw in style is pointed out ... I know that when things start going wrong, for one, I get the coach to keep his eye on me to see what I'm suddenly doing wrong. I can't see it or I wouldn't be doing it in the first place.
Willie Mays -
There's nothing that cleanses your soul like getting the hell kicked out of you.
Woody Hayes -
Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.
Tiger Woods -
The effect of character is always to command consideration. We sport and toy and laugh with men or women who have none, but we never confide in them.
William Gilmore Simms
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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 -
When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."
Etgar Keret -
Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
Michael Nutter -
I love sports. I've played basketball, baseball, soccer, tennis, track and field growing up.
Michael B. Jordan