Sports Quotes - Page 24

• I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

  Andy Murray

  Eye, Player, Judging

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

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• When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.

  Boris Becker

  Words You Speak, News, Way

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• I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

  Brady Anderson

  Integrity, Done, Proud

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• Reading. That was the sport I was good at.

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading

  "These Writing Tips From George R.R. Martin And Robin Hobb Are Just Epic" by Dan Dalton, www.buzzfeed.com. August 20, 2014.

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• My first passion was running: I excelled at that starting till the end of the high school. I pretty much cover about 20 miles a night on stage. I basically rechanneled all the athleticism and adrenaline, and everything that's exciting about sports into music. That was my secret weapon, because in Ukrainian punk rock scene - where everything was very gloomy - being athletic was not cool. I didn't publicize anything about my sport past, but I rolled in onstage with a background nobody had, and I became instantly recognized as the wildest performer in the punk-rock scene.

  Eugene Hutz

  Running, School, Passion

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• Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Balance, Certain, Effects

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• I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

  Peyton Manning

  Reality, Nfl, Forever

  Farewell Press Conference -- Indianapolis Colts, delivered 7 March 2012, Indianapolis, Indiana

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• I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.

  Johnny Unitas

  Football, Years, Two

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• Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.

  Lil Romeo

  Stars, Dancing, Bumps

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• If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.

  Daley Thompson

  Real, Hard Work, Winning

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• Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.

  Franklyn Ajaye

  Golf, Requirements, Pants

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• Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?

  Lisa Loeb

  Guitar, Shoes, People

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• It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.

  Juliana of the Netherlands

  Wonderful

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• I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.

  Mike O'Malley

  Kids, Giving, Three

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• Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.

  Caroline Wozniacki

  Golf, Tennis, Opponents

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

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• Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.

  Chris Hardwick

  Play, Long, Clubs

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• While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.

  Chris Hardwick

  Reality, Media, Guy

  "Technology's gutterball - new gear makes bowling too easy" by Chris Hardwick, www.wired.com. October 20, 2008.

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• This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

  Chan Ho Park

  Fun, Use, Pressure

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• I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.

  Buzz Bissinger

  School, College, Editors

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• Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Military, Fighting, Air

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• I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

  Enjoy, Wells

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• We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.

  Brian Griese

  Mean, Realizing, Offense

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• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Integrity, Play, Justice

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

  Terry Orlick

  Loss, Excellence, Achieve

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• Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

  Terry Orlick

  Silver Platter, Hands, Excellence

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