Sports Quotes - Page 26

• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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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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• In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.

  Terry Orlick

  Athlete, Mean, Competition

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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'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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• Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up...kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going: That looks a little bashed in back there...Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood?" 'Well yes I do! Thank you very much.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thinking, Car, Guy

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• The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Athlete, Thinking, Light

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

  Tug McGraw

  Grass, Dumb Sports

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• England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, England, Two Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Lee Trevino

  Children, Taken, Quality

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• I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

  Darrell Royal

  Texas, University, Coaches

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• It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

  George Herbert

  Poor, Candle

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

  William Cowper

  Reading, Giving, Style

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113

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• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Weather

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics

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• I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

  Mike Ditka

  Mean, Past, Healthy

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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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• Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

  Steve Fossett

  Tired, Climbing, Mountain

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• You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Spring, Clock, Wounds

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

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• Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Baseball, Team, West Point

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• When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Fighting, Law, Effort

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• Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Long, Weary

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• Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

  Bobby Hull

  Dream, Dad, Kids

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• It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

  Alan Kulwicki

  Sunday, Night, Nascar Racing

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• Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Hunting, Doors, Giving

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• I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

  Bud Selig

  Football, Jobs, Hate

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