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Sports Quotes


"To be on the same team with Orr was great because when I turned pro, nobody had more charisma."


"Cobb lived off the field as though he wished to live forever. He lived on the field as though it was his last day."


"True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!"


"The Games are just a nice, positive way to build friendships, camaraderie and, of course, self-esteem. Plus, the Games are a great opportunity for people to participate in sports who normally wouldn't."


"I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German."



"When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights."


"It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes."


"To be involved in a senior tournament back in the States is very satisfying."


"Complaining and arguing will not help. We are fully concentrating on the game against the Czechs."



"Our centers spread the floor, shoot the three and block shots. We can play pick and pop."



"In 2002 the Yamaha was at more or less the same level as the Honda, better in some ways, worse in others. But in the winter of last year between 2002 and 2003, Honda made a big step forward and it seemed as if Yamaha couldn't quite match that improvement."



"The moguls are driven by their respective desires for profit - period."


"Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them."


"I've been playing Texas Hold 'em and other forms of poker since I was about 12."


"Swinging first and swinging to kill is all that matters now."


"The contracts are structured different than athletes in America, but for me, it was good to move on and go back to playing in the premiere league, which is the best league. It was disappointing, as far as the team goes, but for me, there wasn't much I could do."


"When they get a 50-inch waist and a gorilla butt, it's ugly looking - and I think bodybuilding has become ugly looking."


"A true champion is one that accepts defeat the same manner he accepts winning."


"While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area."


"I make appearance at local park and recreation agencies when the program starts, when they have the qualifying meets at the local levels. Then I try to go to the regional competitions, and of course I'm there in Hershey, Pa., in August for the North American final."


"Video games are engineered now, but the step I am trying to take, no one can engineer."



"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."


"Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top."


"You know, we don't look much alike, but Denzel Washington would make a great sports agent."


"But I'm not going to walk Barry Bonds, like some teams do, in the first inning with nobody on."



"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."


"Well, when you've had Tom Cruise play you, anything else is a comedown."
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