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Sports Quotes
"I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12."
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"The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed."
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"He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play."
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"My main idea was to create a sports facility for the basics. This is why I established the club."
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"Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can."
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"I think Bob Costas is terrific. He's so knowledgeable. He can talk about any subject, not just sports."
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"Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition."
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"Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment."
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"You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first."
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"I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring."
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"I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you."
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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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"The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border."
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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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"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."
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"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will."
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"You look at today, it's a different situation. You have a game that has been transformed into a game where almost every shot is either an outside shot - a three-point shot - or a dunk."
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"Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way."
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"A few of us who are around the sixty mark don't play that much these days and if you are taking on a couple of guys in their forties it is very difficult."
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"A lot of the high-level sports are really in your mind."
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"I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment."
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"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."
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"We need to win something for the fans because they have been patient and very understanding and we owe them."
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"I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me."
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"I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet."
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"My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies."
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"I just felt like reflecting on my junior year, when I didn't know what I was doing, I left a lot of stuff out there. Actually, I gained close to 700 yards more and I took myself out of a lot of games."
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