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  Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

  Bo Jackson

  Baseball, Football, Crazy

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

  Eddie Shaw

  Art, Boxing, Poetic

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• Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

  Avery Brundage

  Olympics, Phenomenon, International

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• Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.

  Rod Carew

  Inspirational, Stars, Believe

  Rod Carew (1986). “Rod Carew's Art and Science of Hitting”, Viking Press

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• It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Perseverance, Funny Inspirational

  "The Graduation Speech I Never Got to Give" by Laura Myers, ndsmcobserver.com. May 20, 2011.

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• The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

  Robert Morley

  Men, Balls, Wheels

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• I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Boxing, Canvas

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• Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.

  Moe Norman

  Motivational, Winning, Games

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• Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

  Roger Bannister

  Doctors, Track, Athletic

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Athlete, Squares

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Football, Business

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Hurt, Commitment

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• I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

  Franco Columbu

  Strength, Workout, Thinking

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• The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

  Sepp Herberger

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• You're gonna have to go through hell, worse than any nightmare you've ever dreamed. But when it's over, I know you'll be the one standing. You know what you have to do. DO IT!

  Tony Burton

  Motivational, Dream, Perseverance

  "Rocky's Tony Burton Dead at 78: Sylvester Stallone Remembers His Onscreen Trainer With Sweet Instagram" by Bruna Nessif, www.eonline.com. February 26, 2016.

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• Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

  Ed Coan

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Tree

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• Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.

  John Heisman

  Soccer, Football, Boys

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• For me, as for so many runners, there really are no finish lines. Runs end; running doesn't.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Lines, Marathon

  Dean Karnazes (2008). “50/50: Secrets I Learned Running 50 Marathons in 50 Days -- and How You Too Can Achieve Super Endurance!”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

  Leadership, Baseball, Numbers

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

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• The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Teamwork, Cheer

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• The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

  Frosty Westering

  Basketball, Football, Respect

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Football, Player

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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