Professional Sports Quotes

• Professional sports are something they can't control.

  Troy Vincent

  Sports

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

  Pele

  Sports, Inspiration, Athlete

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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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• 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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• 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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• Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

  Armand Hammer

  Sports, Currents, Steroid

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• I went to Dartmouth College, graduated, and had the opportunity to play two professional sports - I played for the New England Patriots in the NFL and professional lacrosse for the Boston Blazers. I had an injury, so I had to stop so I could heal. But when I was playing football, I wasn't making a lot of money; I wasn't a superstar.

  Brian J. White

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo.

  Ronnie Lott

  Sports, Owners

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• There is certainly an underrepresentation of Asian Pacific Islanders in professional sports/athletics.

  Nathan Adrian

  Sports, Asian, Athletics

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• I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

  Bob Hayes

  Sports, Teamwork, Blessed

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• Which I think is great. I don't think there's nothing wrong with it. If you look in most professional sports, they're run by Jewish people. If you look at a lot of most successful corporations and stuff, more businesses, they're run by Jewish. It's not a knock, but they are some crafty people.

  Michael Ray

  Sports, Running, Successful

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• Professional sports is a business.

  Lynn Swann

  Sports

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• It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you.... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

  Tony Romo

  Sports, Winning, Done

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• You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".

  Bobby Knight

  Sports, Numbers, People

  "On the Road With America's Angriest Man. An Interview With Bobby Knight". playboysfw.kinja.com. March 20, 2014.

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• It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

  Roger Goodell

  Sports, Nfl, League

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• Even though I play a professional sport now, I love college baseball

  Roger Clemens

  Sports, Baseball, College

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. January 26, 2006.

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• I knew I was never going to play professional sport, but I loved playing and I went to all the games I could afford to.

  Spike Lee

  Sports, Games, Play

  "'Barack changes everything'". Interview with John Colapinto, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2009.

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• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sports, Hockey, Fandoms

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• There's not a long track record of people leaving professional sports to become a software developer.

  Curt Schilling

  Sports, Long, People

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• The only thing wrong with the NBA - or any other professional sport, for that matter - is a wild epidemic of Dumbness and overweening Greed. There is no Mystery about it, and no need to change any rules.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Sports, Epidemics, Nba

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward S”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

  Ted Turner

  Sports, People, News

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• Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

  Neal Stephenson

  Sports, Men, Years

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra

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• Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

  Bob Hope

  Sports, Golf, Player

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