Sports Quotes
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I go to my kids' sports games and don't have to carry the enormous burden of secrecy with me every day. However, adrenaline still courses through my body whenever I go through passport control to another country.
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I started wrestling at ten. I played a lot of other sports: soccer, football. I really enjoyed skiing. But wrestling just took off for me. It seemed to be the sport I had an affinity for; I liked the individual, combative nature. There's something special about that. It took me all the places I wanted to go.
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So I developed very early a massive inferiority complex, and I've told the story often about how that inspired me later in life to get involved in other things, because I couldn't out-do my brothers in sports, and it's a very competitive relationship.
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When a sports movie really works, it gets you on all levels, because the stakes are high. It's black and white. It's win or lose.
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I was on the snowboard team at my school, but that was the only sports team I was on. I played soccer growing up in elementary school.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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Delaware is the only state east of the Rockies that is allowed under federal law to offer sports betting.
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For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.
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All sorts of famous sports people have been suspended for extended periods.
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My kids have played sports all their life, and one thing I've tried to teach them when you lose, you try to be a gentleman about it.
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The only thing about sports is making sure you don't read the papers too often.
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I danced for 12 years, and I played a lot team sports: basketball, volleyball.
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The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.
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In the old days, you had an audience of about 400, half of whom were committee members from somewhere or other sitting in their suits. It's become a real sports event with sports fans now.
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Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.
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Chess is a competition. Checkers is a competition. Mostly, I'm interested in doing real sports.
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Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.
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To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.
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Here's a simple way to abolish golf's elitist and exclusionary image and make it a truly all-American sport: ditch that fifties-Republican-martini-drinker's green Brooks Brothers-style sport jacket and make the winner of the Masters slip on something in, say, black leather with plenty of metal studs.
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Playing sports is great when you're young. It teaches you how to focus, how to direct your energy, how not to think about a million other things that are going on.
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Competing in both track and field and basketball for the Bruins I have a lot of great memories to choose from. But my all-time favorite moment in collegiate sports has to be in 1982 when we won UCLA's first NCAA title in track.
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I don't watch a lot of television. Sports and news, that's it.
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I think I have always been a hard worker in school and in sports and everything. Growing up, my parents encouraged me to do that from day one.
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Money was never the motivation. It never should be in sports.
