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Sports Quotes


"Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy."


"If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired."



"It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides."



"The big and the fast beat the small and the fast. If you check out the NBA today, they're big and fast."


"How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts."


"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."



"I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships."


"EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world."


"But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches."


"Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess."


"A light, tender, sensitive touch is worth a ton of brawn."


"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."



"Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year."


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



"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."


"To my sick little pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today."



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


"Forty years ago the chances of journalists reporting - or the authorities even prosecuting - a pro athlete were practically nil."


"The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man."


"It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero."


"I mean, I think I just it added to my excitement to playing today, and just going out there and doing the best I could, and no matter what happened, the end of the day was going to be a good end."


"I can't think of any NBA team over the last few years that lost three starters. And we replaced them basically with three guys who really haven't played in this league."



"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."


"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."


"Barcelona are my favourite team in Spain, let's put it that way."
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