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"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
Mark Spitz
"The memories of the Munich games for me are of triumph and tragedy."
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"It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game."
Andy Van Slyke
"It seems like Satan has thrown the DH into our game."
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"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night."
Jim Mitchell
"Contrary to what the fans may think, you don't just show up, wear a striped shirt and a whistle on Friday night."
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"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."
Pee Wee Reese
"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."
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"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."
Julius Erving
"To be great we need to win games we aren't supposed to win."
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"I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day."
Jimmy Piersall
"I didn't get hurt in the contest. I hurt it the next day."
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"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."
Xenocrates
"I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue."
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"All sports for all people."
Pierre de Coubertin
"All sports for all people."
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"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."
Will McDonough
"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."
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"I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit."
Whitey Ford
"I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit."
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"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
Bob Uecker
"I had slumps that lasted into the winter."
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"I fancy our chances at the European Championships."
Frank Lampard
"I fancy our chances at the European Championships."
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"You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel."
Greg Rusedski
"You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel."
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"But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen."
Lawrence Taylor
"But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen."
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"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."
Joel Osteen
"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."
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"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."
George Herman
"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."
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"When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals."
Tracy Austin
"When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals."
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"To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first."
Mark Lawrenson
"To be a great game, one of the teams has to score first."
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"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock."
Cy Young
"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock."
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"With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight."
Larry Holmes
"With a record of 75 fights and 6 losses, some of the losses were very questionable including Brian Nielsen when we fought in Denmark. I knew I won but they didn't give me that fight."
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"I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there."
Jason Kidd
"I'm a high-risk taker on the court in the sense of trying to squeeze things in there."
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"I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players."
Michael Michele
"I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players."
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"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment."
Randy Castillo
"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment."
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"Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result."
Bobby Robson
"Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result."
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"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not."
George J. Mitchell
"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not."
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"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."
Lisa Leslie
"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."
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"You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms."
Whitey Herzog
"You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms."
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"The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind."
Robert Laurent
"The teams who play against us don't give us any gifts, but we were too kind."
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"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."
Bryan Robson
"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."
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"You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless."
David Gower
"You can make plans but if the opposition plays well, then all your plans become worthless."
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"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end."
Zinedine Zidane
"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end."
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"I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should."
Wayne Rooney
"I think the fans are going to expect a lot from me, as they should."
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"My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all."
Larry Holmes
"My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all."
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"When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand."
Pete Rose
"When you play this game twenty years, go to bat ten-thousand times, and get three-thousand hits, do you know what that means? You've gone zero for seven-thousand."
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"Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for."
Michael Wilbon
"Sports don't define us; it is not what we live for."
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"I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away."
Gerry Cooney
"I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away."
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"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."
Tom Hicks
"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."
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"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill."
Leo Durocher
"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill."
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"A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater."
Christy Mathewson
"A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater."
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"When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win."
Lorii Myers
"When healthy competition prevails -- you come out to play and you play to win."
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"I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years."
Steve Waugh
"I keep a lucky red rag in my pocket when I bat, which has been a good luck charm for a few years."
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"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star."
Olga Korbut
"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star."
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"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."
Bernie Ecclestone
"They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."
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"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."
Jimmy Connors
"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."
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"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."
Vernon A. Walters
"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."
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"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."
Jimmy Hill
"They're still in the game, and they're trying to get back into it."
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"I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June."
Carl Yastrzemski
"I was a lousy hitter in May doing the same things that made me a great hitter in June."
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"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio."
Lisa Guerrero
"On my morning run, I listen to sports talk radio."
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"Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped."
Larry Holmes
"Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped."
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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."
Warren Farrell
"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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