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Sports Quotes


"Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler."


"Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year."


"Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions."


"I don't recall your name but you sure were a sucker for a high inside curve."


"Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going."


"Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk."


"If you will play, you will shine. If you don't play, you will never shine. And that's why sports is important for overall development of an individual."


"All the characters and plots were predetermined. Games make bad plots."


"We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it."


"I live more than anything else to produce the Games."


"Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day."


"If we can play like that every week we'll get some level of consistency."


"If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place."


"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."


"Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this."


"The way the tour has developed has been as good an example of that as you would like to see."


"Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment."


"When you get up there in years, the fairways get longer and the holes get smaller."


"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."


"Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting."


"President Bush and his administration have tried to pull the wool over our eyes and distract the public from this possibly illegal domestic spying scandal."


"And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events."


"This is America's Team and we are confident this outstanding group of athletes will make our country proud."


"It's going to you know, I can't go out there and shoot par and win. Everybody is playing well, and I think you'll have to go out tomorrow and have 4 , 5 , 6 under par probably."


"Acceptance of the danger is of the essence for playing a quality sport."


"A season is a season, regardless of the number of games."


"Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well."
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