Sports Quotes
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I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
Harrison Ford
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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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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 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 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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I love team sports - they give me something to focus on rather than the fact that I can't breathe or my muscles are aching.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
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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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There are times when a sports figure doesn't deserve sympathy.
Stephen Rodrick
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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 is the toy department of life.
George Will
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What’s more, sports are not, of course, always designed strictly to minimize the number of games. Without remembering this, some aspects of sports scheduling would otherwise seem mysterious to a computer scientist.
Brian Christian
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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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Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
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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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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 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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I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
Erma Bombeck
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Nellie Bly
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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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A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
Sanya Richards-Ross
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I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
Channing Tatum
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
Russell Baker
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My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob. And proud of it.
Michael Ian Black
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Sports movies are often very good at dramatizing the intersection of public and private realms: the body politic.
David Shields