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Sports Quotes
"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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"The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures."
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"If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place."
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"I have a 16 year-old son, so I'm now a soccer mom. I stand on the sidelines and I hear the things parents are saying, so I want them to understand what it is their kids are feeling in any sports environment."
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"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."
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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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"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete."
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"Almost anyone who loves tennis and follows the men's tour on television has, over the last few years, had what might be termed Federer Moments. These are times, watching the young Swiss at play, when the jaw drops and eyes protrude and sounds are made that bring spouses in from other rooms to see if you're OK."
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"There was a tremendous amount of disappointment in missing the World Cup finals in 1998, so they're getting excited about this one and I really think we could do well in the Far East."
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"I decided to create a sports club during the Soviet times. It was my dream."
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"We're not doing outrageous fashion; I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears."
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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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"Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions."
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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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"That's what amateur skating is about, technical expertise, and it should always stay that way."
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"Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both."
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"I don't think there are many larger lessons to be found in sports."
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"When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team."
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"I think we have got the wood on South Africa, but that does not mean they are not a good team. They intimidate a lot of teams but we intimidate them. There is no disrespect for South Africa; they are a very good team."
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"Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens."
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