Sports Quotes - Page 32

• 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 am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.

  Enrique Iglesias

  Water, Passionate, Sports In General

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• Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Believe, Luxury, America

  Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books

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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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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Christian, Children

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

  William Cowper

  Country, Mad, Forever

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

  Ben Jonson

  Lust, Decay, Done

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

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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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• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Player, Chance

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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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• 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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• Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

  Joanna Baillie

  Degrees, Ease, Busy

  Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

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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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• I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

  Frank Shorter

  Thinking, Light, Feet

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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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• 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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• I've been in sport for 15 years now and I'm actually shocked at the changes. We had all these things, but we couldn't utilize them. They were not accessible to us. They're actually accessible right now.

  Clara Hughes

  Years, Right Now, Shocked

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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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