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Sports Quotes


"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield."


"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."



"The league, is doing well. It is just a matter of trying to sort some things out with my contract."


"You know, Scooter's going to do the first separation burn; I'm going to do the second separation burn."


"We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them."



"I enjoyed seven years at Wimbledon and there were high and low points."


"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."


"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."


"A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their general's chief dependence."


"I mean Gorilla was really our first sort of goes at songwriting."


"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."


"Most other competitions are individual achievements, but the Olympic Games is something that belongs to everybody."


"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late."



"It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match."


"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."



"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."


"Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart."


"There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis.""


"In fifty years of covering the sport, of course Muhammad Ali is by far the dominant figure."



"One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams."



"At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports."


"In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best."



"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."


"Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again."


"I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable."


"Yes, I think I have the best swing on the Tour. Why have scores comedown in the last ten years? Partly because they are imitating me."


"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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