"Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade."

Sports, Flies, Sense, Trade

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"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Sports, Golf, Faith, Discipline, Focus

"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."

Chris Matakas, Australian Motivational Speaker

Sports, Practice, Learning, Strategy, Improvement

"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

Sports, Beauty, Body, Courage

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Sports, End, Right, Wrong

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

Sports, Baseball, Observation, Patriotism

"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Sports, Winter

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."

Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Spanish Novelist

Sports, Rules, Strategy, Observation

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

Sports, InternationalRelations, EconomicDevelopment, Growth

"Canada is hockey."

Mike Weir, Canadian Athlete

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"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."

Freedom, Country

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."

Life, Opinion

"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."

Politics, Party, Vote

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

Time, Citizenship, First

"It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first."

Winning, First, Losing, Temper

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"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."

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"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."

"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun."

"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."

"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."

"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."

"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."

"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."

"Canada is hockey."

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"There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free."

"Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."

"I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label."

"The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time."

"This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done."

"A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives."

"Above anything else, I hate to lose."

"It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first."

"Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade."

"I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being."