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Sports Quotes


"So when we start talking about the state and all those that are so important and engaged and supportive around Florida, we've gotten overwhelming support, and it's so exciting."


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


"You have to demand things and believe you're worth more. And once you do demand them, you're usually going to get them. The players who first came in were very humble because we came from obscurity. Today's players, on the other hand, have a sense of entitlement."


"These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes."


"I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head."


"I bleed Dodger blue and when I die, I'm going to the big Dodger in the sky."


"Black people dominate sports in the United States. 20% of the population and 90% of the final four."


"The NBA's chosen ones think I'm setting a bad example? I think they need to look around and stop taking themselves so seriously."


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


"Of course, we also have the responsibility to win games and the difficulty in the job is to combine both."


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


"As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game."


"For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions."


"Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em."


"And, in nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I wasn't really going to be a star, and overnight I became a star."


"Pebble Beach. It is tough and the lay out is amazing."


"I would have probably stolen cars - it would have given me the same adrenaline rush as racing."


"I walked away from the sport for 17 years, then started swimming again recently in a master's program."


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


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


"A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end."


"All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on."


"Bjorn was a different breed, I threw my best material at him, but he would never smile, but that added to the charm when he played me and Mac. We were going nuts and losing our mind and he was sitting back like he was on a Sunday stroll."


"There is no concrete way to play Jiu Jitsu, and this is why so many different types of people find joy in it."


"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."


"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."


"It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match."


"The biggest lesson from Africa was that life's joys come mostly from relationships and friendships, not from material things. I saw time and again how much fun Africans had with their families and friends and on the sports fields; they laughed all the time."


"Tiger Woods is the only sports star who's worth every penny he makes."
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