Sports Quotes
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Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere.
Morihei Ueshiba
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Whatever sport you choose, do it because you love it, and don't expect to be an expert first thing. It takes time to do well at anything, but if you love it, you'll stick with it.
Ryan Sheckler
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Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.
Cathy Freeman
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When you look at how the sports world is changing, you have to figure out how to become different than everyone else.
Kevin Harvick
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Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.
Bernd Heinrich
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I was a total athlete. I loved sports, but when I realized I wasn't going to be a professional athlete, I realized I wanted to be in movies.
Sean William Scott
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Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.
George Will
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
David Shields
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I've been here playing against Connors and it can be very, very loud. It makes it exciting at the same time.
Stefan Edberg
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Sports are evolving and always evolving, and people have that determination to keep going and coming back. I think I'm one of those athletes. I stand to show that people shouldn't give up. You've got to just keep going until you succeed.
Mirai Nagasu
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When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
Willie Mays
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Women want to know what's going on, whether it's the guys in the huddle the guys on the couch. One thing that's cool that I've seen as I've grown older is that women now think it is cool to enjoy sports and to sit there and talk the talk and know what's going on.
Erin Andrews
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I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.
Paul Pierce
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Sports is the toy department of life.
George Will
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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
Mia Hamm
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I have three joys in my life: work, sport and food. All these come in one and do not make a hobby.
Mikhail Prokhorov
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For some sport is a hobby but for me it is a way to survive. It makes me calm, balanced and well-rested. Not tired but vice versa. I think sport balances off my work load.
Mikhail Prokhorov
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I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
Harrison Ford
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I've coached people who were ranked number one in the country but didn't get any support while other areas of sport got medium to full funding, even though the individuals had no hope of getting on to the rostrum.
Geoff Capes
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I am trying to encourage kids to do something that isn’t yet on their mind because it is not in popular culture. Popular culture tells you 'music, music, sports, sports.' It neglects the importance of a STEM education.
will.i.am
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I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
Erma Bombeck
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You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body.
Geoffrey Rush
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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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I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson