Sports Quotes - Page 17

• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

  Billie Jean King

  Motivational, Success, Winning

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 14, 2010

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• You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Athlete, Games

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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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• Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

  Carl Lewis

  Life, Inspire, Timing

  "BARCELONA: TRACK & FIELD; With Speed to Burn, U.S. Wins 3 Relays" by Michael Janofsky, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 1992.

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• Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Inspirational, Military, Bad Ass

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• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

  Chris Evert

  Life, Attitude, Winning

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• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

  Billie Jean King

  Perfect, Tennis, Atmosphere

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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• I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Football, Names, Nfl

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• Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Infancy Is, Athletic

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• I wanted to use sports for social change.

  Billie Jean King

  Use, Social, Wanted

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• One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

  Joe Garagiola

  Keys, Fans, Tickets

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• In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Athlete, People

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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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• I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

  Whitey Herzog

  Dog, Player, Needs

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Reality

  Lou Holtz (1990). “The Fighting Spirit: A Championship Season at Notre Dame”

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• You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.

  Bobby Orr

  Motivational, Work, Hockey

  Bobby Orr (2013). “Orr: My Story”, p.78, Penguin

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• A-Rod wants to be like Babe Ruth. And people don't realize this, he's a lot like Babe Ruth. Before the playoffs a couple of years ago, A-Rod went to the hospital and promised a dying kid he'd ground out to second for him.

  Artie Lange

  Baseball, Couple, Kids

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• People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway.

  Jesse Owens

  Running, Horse, Men

  "Owens pierced a myth" by Larry Schwartz, www.espn.com.

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• I'm excited about the opportunity to get out there and show not only what I can do but, more importantly, what this team can do with me in there.

  Philip Rivers

  Team, Opportunity, Nfl

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• I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

  Arjen Robben

  Soccer, Running, Two

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• It is not the size of a man but the size of his heart that matters.

  Evander Holyfield

  Motivational, Volleyball, Athlete

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• If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.

  Dan Castellaneta

  Girl, Wrestling, Taught Us

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