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Sports Quotes



"I've been looking at companies that are on a positive path vs. a negative path and I've come to use the language of sports, winning streaks and losing streaks."


"If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place."


"People who think they know what they are talking about when they talk about baseball include the announcers and all of the sports press - no matter how much evidence you present them to the contrary they will continue to think that what they think is right."



"When you look at golf films before us they're all - garbage or satire. A lot of sports films tend to vilify the opposition. Where the opposition becomes this big angry monster, so big you can't beat him."


"Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic."


"Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models."


"I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports."


"I think the Lombardi teams enjoyed and wanted to get into the big games."


"I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment."


"Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions."


"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."


"Hewitt is such a fighter on the court; he never gives up. They all have qualities to beat him."



"Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will."


"The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win."


"I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me."


"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."


"I'm trying to find new ways to make this game more attractive."


"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete."


"If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line."


"Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing."



"Charles Barkley, I used to watch him growing up. Then I met him. He was a big teddy bear."



"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."


"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me."


"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."
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