Professional Sports Quotes

• I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.

  Gregg Easterbrook

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports.

  Arthur Ashe

  Sports, Time, Children

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• Professional sports are something they can't control.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports

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• One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

  Knute Rockne

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• The more difficult the victory, the greater the happiness in winning.

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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• There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'

  David Halberstam

  Basketball, Awesome Sports, Things You Love

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• Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.

  Julius Erving

  Inspirational, Motivational, Basketball

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• The NBA is the strongest professional sports league in the world. The league and the game is bigger than any one person, Michael Jordan included, and they always will be. I hope that today players, especially our young players, continue to recognize that simple fact. Nothing is more important than the game itself and the fans who support it.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Simple

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• Whatever fighting words you hear from the bargaining table, the reality is that with the new TV contract about to take effect and the incredibly lucrative ancillary revenue streams, both sides know we are on the verge of ushering in the most lucrative payday in the history of professional sports. The history of professional football is that nothing happens until the very last moment.

  Leigh Steinberg

  Sports, Football, Fighting

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• It is cycling as a professional sport that represents the problem. It can transform someone into a liar.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Liars, Cycling

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• To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor league sports aren’t very successful either for fan support or for the fan experience.

  Mark Emmert

  Sports, Successful, College

  "NCAA leader Mark Emmert decries 'pay for play' as a threat to core of college sports", www.foxnews.com. June 19, 2014.

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• There are complaints that it's hard to remember what you can say and what you can't, which words are 'in' for certain groups and which words are not. And yet we started out learning that the 'kitty' on the sidewalk was actually a squirrel, we learned to differentiate between fire trucks and school buses, and many people today know the difference between linguini, fettucini, and rotini. The same people who say they can't remember the 'right' terms in referring to people are often whizzes at remembering which professional sports teams have moved where and are now called what.

  Rosalie Maggio

  Sports, Team, School

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• Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.

  Troy Polamalu

  Sports, Healthy, Important

  "Training Tips for the No-Offseason Athlete". Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2012.

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• I think it's the real world. The people we're writing about in professional sports, they're suffering and living and dying and loving and trying to make their way through life just as the brick layers and politicians are.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Real, Writing

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• It wasn't until after I received my education that I seriously looked at sports entertainment as a way to make a career for myself. And they've got to take it in stride. It's very much like acting or playing professional sports: One percent of one percent of the people who try out for it can actually say they make their living off of doing it.

  John Cena

  Sports, Careers, People

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• I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.

  Oliver Kahn

  Sports, Running, Transition

  "'Goalkeepers Need an Element of Insanity'". Interview with Lothar Gorris and Dirk Kurbjuweit, www.spiegel.de. May 15, 2008.

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• There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.

  James Reston, Jr.

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• In all American professional sports you start on a certain level and you have to work your way up through a farm system. It's really the same in acting.

  Bruce Dern

  Sports, Acting, Levels

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We all have to draw some lines. To preserve my sanity, I steer clear of cooking, professional sports and most imports, unless imported to us via PBS, Sundance, etc.

  Hank Stuever

  Sports, Pbs, Cooking

  "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. October 15, 2015.

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• You need to have a great, strong bladder to call professional sports because, especially in football where, you know, you don't know how long a half's going to last and then the timeouts happen and a incomplete pass.

  Joe Buck

  Sports, Football, Strong

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I work under three umbrellas: entertainment, education, and entrepreneurship. Of course the entertainment fragment speaks for itself because I'm in Chicago. However, a lot of folks may not know I teach courses at Ohio State University that covers life in professional sports.

  Eddie George

  Sports, Ohio State, Chicago

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.

  Leo Durocher

  Sports, Winning, Matter

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

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• A lot of players go into a restaurant and ask for a special table. I go and stand in line with the working people. It's very easy to get spoiled playing professional sports.

  Johnny Damon

  Sports, Player, People

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• Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.

  Brian Roberts

  Sports, Play, World

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• Major league baseball players and owners should meet immediately to enact the standards that apply to the minor leagues, and if they don't, I will have to introduce legislation that says professional sports will have minimum standards for testing. I'll give them until January, and then I'll introduce legislation.

  John McCain

  Sports, Baseball, Player

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