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Sports Quotes
"Then all the foreigners started coming over. I don't mind that but a lot of teams are laying out fortunes for ordinary players and that's no good for our youngsters coming through."
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"So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting."
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"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear."
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"The newspapers loved pinup pictures of pretty young swimmers, and as a national champion, I got more than my share of space in the sports pages."
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"Most players in this league say they want consistency."
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"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late."
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"In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke."
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"Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before."
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"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four."
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"When George Graham was there they complained, harking back to better days, but I think that's a fantasy."
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"You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame."
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"February is always a bad month for TV sports. Football is gone, basketball is plodding along in the annual midseason doldrums, and baseball is not even mentioned."
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"So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion."
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"The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time."
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"I have worked hard to improve my consistency in my driving, irons, short game, and putting."
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"I think it'll be an emotional day. It'll be exciting for me, mostly it'll be exciting for them. I'm not going to get to come here a lot, so, it'll be a special day, hopefully."
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"Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them."
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"I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German."
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"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."
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"Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity."
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"I think the Commissioner is taking the steps necessary to give the game back to the players and the fans and hopefully take the league to the next level."
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"He's sharp, he can score and he doesn't worry about missing."
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"I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not."
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"If Jack Nicklaus can win the Masters at 46, I can win the Kentucky Derby at 54."
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"There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis.""
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"I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams."
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