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Sports Quotes
"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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"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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"As an individual, not as the boss of a company, I am very interested in motor racing."
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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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"Shoaib Akhtar has been playing for 5, 6 years and is an experienced bowler."
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"There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it."
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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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"Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are."
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"When the 2020 games take place, let every district affirm that one athlete from our district will represent India at those games."
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"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt."
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"I'm not really interested in sports psychology. It makes me feel like a crazy person."
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"Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition."
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"Winning isn't everything, but playing and competing and striving and going through things can be a lot of fun and really important. As long as you're doing it in a way that's healthy, sports can be an incredible opportunity."
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"When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs."
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"I literally paid my way through the University of Texas with my umpiring."
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"I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey."
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"You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport."
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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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"To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours."
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"When you play guard, you're not going to block a lot of shots. Inside, you're going to block shots."
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"In these days of modern tennis a player is as strong as his weakest stroke."
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"For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America."
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"In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry."
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"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."
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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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"The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you."
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"There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence."
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"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."
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"Guys like John McEnroe, Bjorn Borg and Stefan Edberg were also very good grass court players."
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"The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value."
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