Sports Quotes
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Running is a simple sport. You don't need all the zoopy zoopy.
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Sports can do so much. It's given me confidence, self-esteem, discipline, and motivation.
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I've aways been good at picking up certain things, like sports and dancing.
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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.
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I'm trying to teach my children not to cry. That's the big thing. No crying. Because I think we can all agree that crying is, for the most part, for sissies. If my team loses, I'm going to cry. And I'm going to want my kids to see me crying. Not because I think sports are so important, but because I bet so much money on the game that we'll probably lose the house if my team doesn't win. That's something to cry about.
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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.
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Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.
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A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.
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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.
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The ones who want to achieve and win championships motivate themselves.
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I never followed baseball very much. As a kid, I never followed sports.
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Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
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You're never a loser until you quit trying.
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I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.
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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.
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A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled up on top of it.
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I was a sports fan long before I had any interest in film-making.
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There are a whole bunch of people - Republicans or sports fans or reality TV fans - who probably would never have recognized that they have trans people in their world. Caitlyn Jenner really is thinking about the movement and saving lives, so I know that her intentions are honorable.
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Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.
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I can dribble with my right hand and I can dribble with my left hand. I'm amphibious.
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My mother was watching on television and she doesn't want me to hurt anyone.
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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.
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Character grows in the soil of experience with the fertilization of example, the moisture of ambition, and the sunshine of satisfaction. Character cannot be purchased, bargained for, inherited, rented or imported from afar. It must be home-grown. Purely intellectual development without commensurate internal character development makes as much sense as putting a high-powered sports car in the hands of a teenager who is high on drugs. Yet all too often in the academic world, that's exactly what we do by not focusing on the character development of young people.
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In fact, theres a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.
