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Sports Quotes


"In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry."


"We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief."


"I didn't get over 1300 walks without knowing the strike zone."


"Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them."


"Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year."


"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."


"I had hoped that the board would accept Johnny Hon's offer of a loan to buy the stadium back for the club, as I think this would be best way of continuing the long tradition of Cambridge United in Cambridge - and it was a generous offer."


"When the 2020 games take place, let every district affirm that one athlete from our district will represent India at those games."


"I'm nervous when I play in the Masters or most other tournaments."


"I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment."


"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."


"The Athletic Association competed against the University. So there was an event. You cannot break world records unless it is an established event, and you have three timekeepers, and the whole thing is organized."



"Kevin Keegan said if he had a blank sheet of paper, five names would be on it."


"I think the National League has better biorhythms in July."


"I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final."


"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."


"To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying."


"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."


"Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement."


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


"The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value."


"When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface."


"When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare."


"I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier."


"My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving."


"There are only two places in the league - first place and no place."


"My best score ever is 103, but I've only been playing 15 years."


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


"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."
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