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Sports Quotes


"England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield."


"Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me."


"I think we have a good team, but soccer fans will know that we're in a really tough group. The three teams in our group are really strong. The Czech Republic is a very good team, Italy is traditionally a powerhouse, and Ghana is one of the best teams in Africa."


"The two championship years were that significant for me."


"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."


"When you get on base, holes open up and things happen and you're able to find a way to score runs."


"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."


"Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking."


"So while I was studying, I rode my Trials bike, then I moved to roadracing."


"The playoffs are the playoffs. You just play who is put in front of you."


"I got players with bad watches - they can't tell midnight from noon."


"I'm not that clued up on the American sports yet, really."


"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."


"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."


"Lou Brock was a great base stealer but today I am the greatest."


"I think it's as popular as it ever has been and it continues to grow as it does all around the world."


"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."


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


"You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport."


"Paul Lambert has assembled a great bunch of lads and training has been going very well. I am just desperate to get into the team and do my best for the club."


"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."


"Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better."


"You have to remember that I played longer than anybody else on the main tour; I played until I was 40, and then played another six years or so on the seniors tour."


"Once Liverpool had asked me to sign again, there was no hesitation."


"To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month or even one year - but for a lifetime."


"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."


"If you're a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They don't have a choice."


"The disappointment of losing is huge."


"My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies."
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