Playing Sports Quotes

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Sports, Athlete, Hockey

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• Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.

  Mike Singletary

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.

  Babe Ruth

  Leadership, Basketball, Teamwork

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

  George Orwell

  Jealousy, Sports, War

  "The Sporting Spirit" (1945)

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• You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

  Chris Evert

  Motivational, Inspiring, Sports

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• Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.

  Mia Hamm

  Girl, Sports, Volleyball

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• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

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• The way a team plays as a whole determines its success.

  Babe Ruth

  Teamwork, Business, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  "The Playboy Interview: Sports Gods". Interview with Mark Vancil, reprints.longform.org. May, 1992.

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• You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.

  Joe Paterno

  Sports, Confidence, Football

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• Every kid around the world who plays soccer wants to be Pele. I have a great responsibility to show them not just how to be like a soccer player, but how to be like a man.

  Pele

  Motivational, Soccer, Sports

  "SI Flashback: Soccer's Greatest Genius". Sports Illustrated, June 01, 1999.

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• I played seven years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Motivational Sports

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• During my 18 years I came to bat almost 10,000 times. I struck out about 1,700 times and walked maybe 1,800 times. You figure a ballplayer will average about 500 at-bats a season. That means I played 7 years without ever hitting the ball.

  Mickey Mantle

  Sports, Baseball, Mean

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Basketball, Motivational Sports

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• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

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• Passion is kind of an important word for me, whether it’s playing sports or whether it’s just living or whatever you’re going to do.  In my opinion you should be passionate about it or else, why do it?

  Pat Tillman

  Sports, Passion, Important

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• As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.

  Avery Brundage

  Sports

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• I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be outside playing sports, instead of sitting in front of any type of screen.

  Miley Cyrus

  Sports, Fun, Kids

  "Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Interview THE LAST SONG". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 16, 2010.

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• I took my sports experience to my life on stage. That's why I'm so disciplined. Playing sports, I was always underestimated. I was never picked first to do anything. This always helped me. It taught me how to push myself.

  Bernie Mac

  Sports, Firsts, Taught

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• I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.

  Joel Silver

  Sports, Fun, School

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• I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.

  Ellen Page

  Sports, Adults, Grew Up

  "Ellen Page: 'I'm totally pro-choice. I mean what are we going to do - go back to clothes hangers?'". Interview With Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 3, 2010.

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• I grew up playing sports, but now I feel like I can't, because if I get injured, I'll impair whatever film I'm working on.

  Ellen Page

  Sports, Film, Grew Up

  "Drew Barrymore and Ellen Page: Bosom Buddies". Interview with Jessica Henderson, www.marieclaire.com. September 9, 2009.

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• I grew up playing sports. There is a clear line between success and failure.

  Tiki Barber

  Sports, Lines, Success And Failure

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• I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.

  Paul Walker

  Basketball, Sports, Play

  Source: www.fanpop.com

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• Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.

  Evo Morales

  Sports, Presidential, Alcohol

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