Sports Quotes - Page 34

• In order to keep up with the rapid evolution of the sport, you've got to keep an open mind.

  Forrest Griffin

  Order, Mma, Mind

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• In the long run, you hit only what you aim at.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Running, Long

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• True champions are team players.

  Alan Cohen

  Success, Team, Player

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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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• It's hard to go out and practice every single day, and you get really tired. But you have to believe in yourself.

  Summer Sanders

  Success, Believe, Tired

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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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• Whether you want to be the best at your job, or at sports, just do your best. Give it everything you have.

  Nick Newell

  Jobs, Mma, Giving

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• Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.

  Dan Millman

  Success, Journey, Careers

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• The Olympic Charter says winter sports must be played on snow or ice, so the Chess Federation says they'll play with ice pieces. The Olympic charter also says sports must be sports.

  Peter Sagal

  Winter, Ice, Play

  "Lightning Fill In The Blank". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. May 2, 2015.

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• Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

  Clare Balding

  Helping, Breaking Down, Barriers

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• Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability: one is able to adjust, while the other, apparently, couldn't... The same analogy applies to fighting, and probably any other sport. It's not always the strong that survive. It takes brains, guts, tolerance and forward thinking. We've seen this since the beginning of mixed martial arts.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Art, Strong, Powerful

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• Sports are a metaphor for life.

  Ronda Rousey

  Mma, Metaphor

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• Bull riding is probably the most dangerous sport in the world in terms of head injuries.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  World, Riding, Bulls

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm to your opponent than he does to you. It just seems ugly.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Athlete, Fighting, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• I think the proper attitude toward fighting sports is one of ambivalence. You can be drawn to them, but you should also be repelled by them.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Attitude, Fighting, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• My reason for arguing against abolishing these types of sports isn't some kind of lofty, philosophical rationale. It's just that I did it and I liked it. It comes down to a libertarian issue for me. I feel that if I know the risks and I want to take them, I should be allowed to do so.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Philosophical, Issues, Risk

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• From sports the greatest thing I've learned is discipline achieves goals.

  Desmond Green

  Mma, Discipline, Goal

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• Rock stars are like sports stars: If you snap your ankle, you're done.

  Dave Grohl

  Stars, Rocks, Ankles

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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• I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

  Dhani Harrison

  Dna, Musician, Rowing

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• What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Success, Hard Work, Lasting Change

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• Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Blood, Hands, Flying

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time.

  Dhani Jones

  Football, Thinking, Reflection

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• Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.

  Randeep Hooda

  Names, People, Royal

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• There is no life without sport and no sport without competition.

  Randeep Hooda

  Competition

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• When I was a child, I saw in the news that a person from Belitung had done well in sports in Jakarta, and I just couldn't imagine that it was possible for someone from here to become famous, and it's still very isolated out here.

  Andrea Hirata

  Children, News, Jakarta

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