Sports Quotes - Page 16

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

  Earl Warren

  Fear, Failure, Men

  "The Norton Book of Sports". Book by George Plimpton, p. 470, 1992.

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• Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Football, Agriculture, Doe

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

  Sam Snead

  Golf, Knives, People

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• There comes a time in every man's life, and I've had plenty of them.

  Casey Stengel

  Funny, Life, Men

  Quoted in Wash. Post, 6 May 1981. This quotation marks Stengel's grave.

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• Most ball games are lost, not won.

  Casey Stengel

  Games, Lost Friendship, Balls

  Quoted in Paul Dickson, Baseball's Greatest Quotations (1991)

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• The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Death, Humorous, Hunting

  P. G. Wodehouse (1999). “A Wodehouse Bestiary”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.

  Mia Hamm

  Soccer, Player, Thinking

  Mia Hamm, Aaron Heifetz (2013). “Go For The Goal: A Champion's Guide To Winning In Soccer And Life”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• The Bible never says anything about dinosaurs. You can't say there were dinosaurs when you never saw them. Somebody actually saw Adam and Eve. No one ever saw a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

  Carl Everett

  Dumb, Say Anything, Dinosaurs

  "10 Ratchet MLB Player Retirements That Kenny Powers Should Put to Shame" by Jose Martinez, www.complex.com. September 29, 2013.

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• The hardest skill to acquire in this sport is the one where you compete all out, give it all you have, and you are still getting beat no matter what you do. When you have the killer instinct to fight through that, it is very special.

  Eddie Reese

  Motivational, Athlete, Fighting

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• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Country, Silly, Athlete

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• Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.

  Arnold Palmer

  Golf, Simple, Games

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Animal, Hunting, Games

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• I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Hate, Humor

  Quoted in Michael HobbsThe Golf Quotation Book (1992).

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• The strongest thing I put into my body is steak and eggs. I just eat. I'm not a supplement guy. Steroids are not even a thought.

  Jim Thome

  Motivational, Eggs, Guy

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

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• Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

  George Will

  Baseball, Mlb, Games

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• I feel like I'm the best, but you're not going to get me to say that.

  Jerry Rice

  Motivational, Football, Nfl

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• The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

  Mike Cameron

  Years, Dumb, Sun

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• Sports is human life in microcosm.

  Howard Cosell

  Homecoming, Human Life, Microcosm

  HOWARD COSELL (1973). “COSELL”

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• You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

  A. J. Kitt

  Inspirational, Acceptance, Guy

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• You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Volleyball, Perseverance

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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• No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Integrity, Athlete, Honor

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• New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

  Jimmy Connors

  Love, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Golf, Games, Green

  Letter on May 15, 1925. "Ernest Hemingway: Selected Letters 1917 - 1961", book edited by Carlos Baker, 1981.

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• Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

  George Herbert

  Inspirational, Confidence, Army

  George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.165

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