Sports Quotes - Page 25

• Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.

  Dick Schaap

  People, Boxing, Might

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• Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Destiny, Alas

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.52

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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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• Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Football, Games

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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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• The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Important, Photographer, Anticipation

  "Three Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Marilyn Monroe" by Susan Michals, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 11, 2012.

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• With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.

  Maynard Webb

  Numbers, Outcomes, Fields

  "Meritocracy: World Cup Fever" by Maynard Webb, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 17, 2010.

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• You always catch the wrong players.

  Abe Lemons

  Player, Psychology, Sports Psychology

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• When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

  Brady Anderson

  Running, Natural, Bigger

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• We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

  Jeff Daniels

  Daughter, Stupid, Adventure

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

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• I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

  Brian Griese

  Winning, Player, Trying

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• Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Feelings, Easy

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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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• Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

  Mamie McCullough

  Motivational Sports, Dirt

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• I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Garden, Cooking, Fans

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

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Military, Fighting, Air

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• The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Zero, Games

  Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Accomplishment, News, Records

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight. We're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.

  Anthony Pettis

  Wrestling, Fighting, Pride

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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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• I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Strong, Believe, Japan

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• Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

  Stephanie Mills

  May, Given, Diverse

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.70, Island Press

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• Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Unhappy, Unjust

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.27

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• I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

  Mike Ditka

  Crazy, Winning, People

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• Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

  Joe Kapp

  Morning, Sweat, Waiting

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