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Sports Quotes
"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."
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"If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice."
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"The disappointment of losing is huge."
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"My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies."
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"I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive."
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"So, we have to get up and get pumped up for each day."
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"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."
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"I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years."
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"A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn."
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"When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team."
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"We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places."
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"I never played inside as a kid - even in the rain I'd go out."
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"A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end."
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"All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on."
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"Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis."
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"I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games."
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"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio."
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"The doors fly open when you're a professional athlete."
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"I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable."
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"The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do."
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"International sport is war without shooting."
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"A true champion is one that accepts defeat the same manner he accepts winning."
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"The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man."
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"I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize."
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"I admit I was somewhat concerned when we started to sign so many players - naturally you are going to worry about whether you can retain your place in the side."
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"You know, we - we start with a mentality that we'll take a sports project if its good. And we're certainly not on the lookout for them, because to be honest we don't have to. They walk in the door."
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"Professional sports are something they can't control."
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"People here don't identify themselves by their sports team."
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