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Sports Quotes
"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."
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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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"You play. You win. You play. You lose. You play."
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"You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court."
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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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"I keep my eyes clear and I hit 'em where they ain't."
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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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"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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"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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 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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"(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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"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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"A Stander-by is often a better judge of the game than those that play."
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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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"Behind an able Indian Cricket Team there is always able Sachin Tendulkar."
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"The game itself is bigger than the winning."
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"Cricket must be proud, "I played by Sachin Tendulkar"."
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"Manny has swung with many men, but many men never seen Manny's blissful swing."
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