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Sports Quotes
"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play."
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"I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug."
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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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"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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"Sports are one of the main cultural activities on the face of the earth."
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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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"The day they put me in the net I had a good game. I've stayed there since."
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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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"I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game."
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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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"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
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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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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of 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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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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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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"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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"Century was an occasional thing in cricket, Sachin made it frequent."
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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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"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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"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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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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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."
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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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