Sports Quotes - Page 6

• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Dark

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

  Rahul Dravid

  Perseverance, Failure, Not Giving Up

  "Have failed at times, but never stopped trying: Rahul Dravid". archive.indianexpress.com. March 10, 2012.

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Commitment

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Isms, Beaten

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• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Football, Athlete

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Determination, Wrestling, Athlete

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• I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Golf, Guitar, Way

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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  I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Funny, Golf, Get Better

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Baseball, Football

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• Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

  Doug Collins

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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• Sport is a preserver of health.

  Hippocrates

  Motivational Sports

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Football, Sarcasm

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  These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Funny, Basketball, Guy

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

  Eric Liddell

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Golf, Games, Balls

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• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Ballet, Violence

  "Jesse Ventura's Theory of Politics". Interview with Vann R. Newkirk Ii, www.theatlantic.com. July 25, 2016.

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Athlete, Hockey, Player

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sexy, Fashion

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• The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

  Neville Cardus

  Order, Umpires, Geysers

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press

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• As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

  Kevin Keegan

  Gun, Bullets, Barrels

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• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

  Al Oerter

  Inspirational, Funny, Thinking

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• It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Past, Men

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• I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

  Alberto Tomba

  Thinking, Today, Compliment

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