Sports Quotes - Page 28

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

  Dante Hall

  Games, Fans, Offensive

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

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Success, Giving Up, Defeat

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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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• 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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• 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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• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  Bernard Ingham

  Blood, Gossip, Columns

  1986 Speech, 5 Feb.

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• Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

  Wallis Simpson

  Hunting, Foxes, Crime

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• I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Football, Latin, Believe

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Country, Trying, Spain

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• I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. Keep in mind, this ain't like the real world where you work somewhere and you can stay 40 years. Being able to see where you are going just a few years ahead is a pretty cool deal, and it doesn't happen too often in any sport, much less stock car racing.

  Ken Schrader

  Real, Moving, Stock Car Racing

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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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• It's great to be great, but its greater to be human.

  Will Rogers

  Greatness, Self Respect, Humans

  Quoted in'A RogersThesaurus' inThe Saturday Review, 25 Aug 1962. Another form of the quote appeared in a syndicated newspaper article,15 Feb1925: 'Heroing is one of the shortestlived professions there is'.

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• In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'

  Carroll Shelby

  Horse, Race, Car

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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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• The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Softball, Motivation

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (1993). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration for Each Day of the Year”, Touchstone

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• Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  War, Class, Passive Resistance

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• Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.

  Will Rogers

  Offering, Politics, Matter

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• Fighting is a sport; if you're not humble it's going to bring humbleness to you.

  Mike Tyson

  Humble, Fighting, Mma

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• I have always liked sport and only played or run races for the fun of the thing.

  Jim Thorpe

  Running, Fun, Race

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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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• It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Men, Play, Important

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I recognize that losing is a part of growth in this sport and it's a positive thing in the long run.

  Rory MacDonald

  Running, Mma, Long

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• Not too hard for me to stay motivated when I'm in sport where everyone's trying to knock me out.

  Nate Diaz

  Mma, Trying, Motivated

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• In this sport, in this life, I think heart takes you a lot further than skill and technique... Just digging down deep will take you a lot further in life.

  Clay Guida

  Heart, Thinking, Skills

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