Sport Quotes
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Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.
Mike Tyson
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I've been in this sport only four years, and I know that I'll keep learning and improving.
Francis Ngannou
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One of the reasons I wrote 'The Fall' is that climbing's more than a sport, it's a way of life. When you're in it, it's all you think about.
Simon Mawer
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I like playing sport. I'm a bit of a design enthusiast, and like spending time with my girlfriend and mates.
Nick D'Aloisio
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Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
Gerry Cooney
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Martina Navratilova is not a 'girl,' nor is Debi Thomas or Katarina Witt, and the women skaters weren't 'cute' in 1988. The problem with describing women as girls is that they never grow up and therefore can't take positions of authority in the world of sport. But the good news is that you can change language, so ultimately you can change the picture of women in sports.
Anita DeFrantz
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Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.
Lord Byron
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When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.
Andrea Davis Pinkney
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The black market poses a greater risk to the integrity of sports than open, visible, and regulated betting.
Matt Gaetz
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One of my true dreams is to do a sports talk radio show and take calls.
Joshua Morrow
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At nine years old I didn't really know what that meant at the time. I thought it might be in a warm summer sport like softball, but I played a variety of sports growing up - basketball, soccer and track. I really didn't care. I just wanted to be an Olympian.
Elana Meyers
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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
Catherynne M. Valente
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When we started in the early '60s, football had a little bit of a tradition. But, they didn't have a mythology. And NFL Films, through our music and our scripts and our photography, created a mythology for the sport.
Steve Sabol
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Sport is made to be live. You can't watch something three hours later already knowing the results; it's not the same experience.
Scott Coker
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To me I don't think sport is something that I can take for life. I still have my academy, my studies.
Caster Semenya
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Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and horses, and they wouldn't understand you.
Bill Linderman
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Don't praise your own good shots. Leave that function to your partner who, if a good sport, will not be slow in performing it.
Harry Vardon
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Our philosophy precedes from the belief that sport is an inalienable part of the educational process and a factor for promoting peace, friendship, cooperation and understanding among peoples.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.
Anita DeFrantz
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Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
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In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as a Christian with others Christian athletes. That's one of the coolest things about sports ministry. We can share these common experiences with other Christians. Having Lolo as a teammate, for example, has been great.
Elana Meyers
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I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.
Mirai Nagasu
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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
Steve Largent
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I just try to stay half way decent looking. Boxing's a rough sport and you get hit a lot.
Muhammad Ali