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Sports Quotes
"Video games are bad for you? That's what they said about rock-n-roll."
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"My unbeaten record and the 10 British Open wins have not been equalled."
137
"I am very happy to be signing for the best team in the world and especially proud to be the first Portuguese player to join United."
126
"I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing."
94
"I don't expect to see them in the top six but I think of all the teams that have come up in previous seasons, I think Manchester City are the biggest club."
89
"Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it."
89
"In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents."
83
"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."
78
"It's quite easy to start Trials riding. You just need a bike and you're set."
77
"We have two tables on our airplane that are set up with the games."
73
"I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really."
72
"I read the greens in Spanish, but putt in English."
70
"I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports."
58
"It was important to score points today and I went for them with my guts."
57
"I think that every single person should play sports."
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"Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be."
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"You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top."
51
"Without question, no hesitation, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the best player I ever played against."
47
"There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports."
46
"Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those."
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"Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it."
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"It's not tough at all as long as the fans are yelling, screaming and hollering."
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"I'm not the next anyone, I'm the first Maria Sharapova."
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"I think that was one thing I definitely brought to the table, my aggressiveness and my style of play, and I think that's one of the reasons why the fans here really appreciated the way that I went out and played, just because I think they kind of liked that."
37
"I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling."
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"I've never seen anything like it since. Some of the Canada Cups came close, but by then a lot of European players came and played in our league so we were more familiar with them."
36
"I'd like to thank the good Lord for making me a Yankee."
36
"Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed."
33
"And then '74 as I mentioned and then the 1990 world cup was our team was the team of the reunification you know, so we were the team for both sides of Germany so now, you know throughout the last 16 years, we've melted together. And now comes the next milestone."
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