"I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it."

Sports, Kids, Parents

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"I think it is that parents just don't kick their kids out the door as much as they used to. I think the demise of sandlot sports has had a lot to do with it."

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"Sachin is passionate for cricket and fame is passionate for Sachin."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."

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"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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"Marathon running, like golf, is a game for players, not winners. That is why Callaway sells golf clubs and Nike sells running shoes. But running is unique in that the world's best racers are on the same course, at the same time, as amateurs, who have as much chance of winning as your average weekend warrior would scoring a touchdown in the NFL."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common."

Hunter S. Thompson, American Journalist

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"Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens."

Steve Spurrier, American Coach

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"Hurricane Katrina, coupled with Hurricane Rita, which came promptly on Katrina's heels, claimed more than 1,200 American lives. Together, they caused more than $200 billion in damage."

Ellen Tauscher, American Politician

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"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."

George Orwell, British Author

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"With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential."

Julius Erving, American Athlete

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"Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much."

Nigel Mansell, British Athlete

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"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."

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"Hills are speedwork in disguise."

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"Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing."

Experience

"Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off."

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"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."

People

"Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood."

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"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."

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"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners."

"Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common."

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"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."

"Hills are speedwork in disguise."

"Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing."

"Running with others can help get you out when you might otherwise blow it off."

"There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff."

"Again, racing for me was about energy management."

"Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again."

"I was actually going to law school in 1972."

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"Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience."