Sports Quotes - Page 27

• 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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• I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

  Garry Kasparov

  Baseball, Lucky, Unions

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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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• A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Upset, Timing, Pitcher

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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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• That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

  Billie Jean King

  Opportunity, Choices

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• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Blow, Race

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• That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Too Much

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• Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

  Pope Pius XII

  Men, Occupation, Whole

  1945 Speech to the Central School of Sports of the USA, 29 Jul.

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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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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

  Steve Spurrier

  Football, Real, Book

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• Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

  Dante Hall

  Games, Fans, Offensive

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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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• What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

  Mark Spitz

  Perseverance, Successful, Years

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• To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

  Tony Stewart

  Ambassadors, Honest, Feels

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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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• I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it's a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car.

  Tiesto

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Team, Winning

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• I was attracted to climbing mountains because of the physical dangers, but also the challenges, like 'mental fortitude, physical fortitude, judgement.' It's the intensity of the experience, at a sustained level. The experience is incredibly intense because it is so dangerous.

  Lincoln Hall

  Climbing, Judgement, Challenges

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• If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

  Bobby Bowden

  Nfl, Ems, Killing

  “Bobby Bowden: What I've Learned” by Call Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2009.

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• It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

  Venus Williams

  Nice, Winning, Cups

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• There is no defeat except for those who give up.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Success, Giving Up, Defeat

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• Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It's those who learn to perform when they're tired that find success.

  Jay Robinson

  Strong, Tired, Wrestling

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• I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Soccer, Football, Believe

  Theodore Roosevelt, Joseph Bishop (2010). “Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, p.63, Applewood Books

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• Rail-splitting produced an immortal president in Lincoln, but golf hasn't produced even a good Congressman.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Teenager, Golf

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