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Sports Quotes
"When I first skated here, I definitely felt small out there because it is such a big surface."
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"Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war.The human beauty we're talking about here is beauty of a particular type; it might be called kinetic beauty. Its power and appeal are universal. It has nothing to do with sex or cultural norms. What it seems to have to do with, really, is human beings' reconciliation with the fact of having a body."
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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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"The day they put me in the net I had a good game. I've stayed there since."
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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
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"The game itself is bigger than the winning."
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"I'd rather play in front of a full house than an empty crowd."
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"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
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"I am sure our athletes will win hearts of the world and will show the world what India is all about."
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"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play."
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"I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't."
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"Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children."
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"Sports for me is: S for Skill, P for Perseverance, O for Optimism, R for Resilience, T for Tenacity, S for Stamina"
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"Nixon was a bad loser. He hated losing worse than death, and that is why I enjoyed him. We were both football fans, both addicts; and on some days, nothing else mattered."
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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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"The best thing about the Kentucky Derby is that it is only two minutes long. It is the quickest event in sports, except for Sumo-wrestling & Mike Tyson fights. Maybe Drag-racing is quicker, but I have never been attracted to it."
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"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."
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"Any advanced student will tell you the best way to recover guard is simply not to get your guard passed in the first place."
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"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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"This time we are sending the contingent in advance, so that players are familiar with local conditions. Earlier they got only few days."
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"I didn't know how much I cared about having a woman on the court until the day there was a woman on the court."
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"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
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"(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it, it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action."
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"OK, publishing a book and releasing a movie is all very well, but Tottenham beating Man. U. 3-2... priceless."
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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
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"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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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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"If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race."
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"In Jiu Jitsu, we often fall into the trap of simply trying a technique "harder," rather than recognizing that it is a poorly chosen tool for the task at hand."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"Your progress as a Jiu Jitsu practitioner is a direct reflection of the standards you have for yourself."
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"I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head - big darkness, soon come - but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them."
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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