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Sports Quotes
"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."
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"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."
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"I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment."
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"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield."
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"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."
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"Male figure skating is different than female figure skating; we're not America's sweetheart."
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"Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids."
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"I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me."
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"Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic."
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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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"I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games."
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"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."
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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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"Competition is the spice of sports; but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick."
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"Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking."
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"I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon."
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"And for the team, I always tried to do the right thing."
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"I wanted to be a sportswriter because I loved sports and I could not hit the curve ball, the jump shot, or the opposing ball carrier."
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"If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice."
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"We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat."
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"Trade a player a year too early rather than a year too late."
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"These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes."
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"One of the most difficult things for people who have been successful in sports is adapting to the daily world where you can't get an answer from someone until 5 o'clock tomorrow. There is always an excuse. Living 40 or 50 years like that doesn't get too exciting after a while."
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"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."
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"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."
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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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"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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"It is really hard to make it convincing enough that you forget you are playing a video game."
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"The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us."
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"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
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"Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. A serious football fan is never alone. We are legion, and football is often the only thing we have in common."
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"Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition."
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"We all wore a 21 patch that one season as a silent tribute to our deceased teammate Roberto."
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