Sports Quotes - Page 33

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

  Wallis Simpson

  Hunting, Foxes, Crime

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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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• 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 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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• Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

  Roy Baumeister

  Self Esteem, Discipline, Self Control

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

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Too Much

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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 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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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Stars

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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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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• It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.

  Arnold Palmer

  Spiritual, Mind, Musician

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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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• 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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• I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Rough, Objects

  Theodore Roosevelt (1910). “Works”

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• You can love infinity, eternity, Scotty dogs, sports, work, play, the feelings of being alive, the earth, the sky, the fire, the wind ... there's a lot you can love.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dog, Yoga, Wind

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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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• 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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• People who fish for food, and sport be damned, are called pot-fishermen. The more expert ones are called crack pot-fishermen. All other fishermen are called crackpot fishermen. This is confusing.

  Ed Zern

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

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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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• 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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