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Sports Quotes


"It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game."


"I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet."


"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."


"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."


"Pete Rozelle used television to get the game to the American public by creating the Super Bowl and making it the biggest sporting event in the world."


"When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me."


"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."



"When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals."


"To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first."


"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment."


"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not."


"Most people compliment me on maintaining my femininity while I'm on the court. People like the fact that I model. My fans or little girls always say they want to play sports, but also want to be a model like me and I think that's great."


"In the end, a small section of the crowd, maybe 2,000 to 3,000, turned against me. And that was it. Inside the club they know your best intentions, but the minority shout louder than the rest."


"You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless."



"I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should."


"I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away."



"I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns."


"When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win."



"I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years."


"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star."


"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."


"Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll."



"I don't think we should tell them what we're going to do in advance. Let them think. Worry. Wonder. Uncertainty is the most chilling thing of all."


"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."


"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio."



"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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