Famous Quotes: Sports

I don't read a lot of the sports, because I think people sometimes either build it up, or you have this guy that hates sports that is going to write bad about it, so I figure I'm not going to read it. Because I'm not going to let him put an idea into my head.
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What's more important than who's going to be the first black manager is who's going to be the first black sports editor of the New York Times.
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I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
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I think that people who have played sports have an ability to relate to people because when you're playing you have to work on teams and with opposing players.
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I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment.
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I like every single actor or actress in the world, because we never know what the conditions are like when they are working. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt and root for them like a psychotic sports fan.
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Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
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It certainly is dangerous that there are only a few clubs left in Europe that can afford to pay millions. At the end of the day however, the spectators decide the rates of pay - by watching the games and consuming the goods and services advertised on sports TV programmes.
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As a kid I was short and only weighed 95 pounds. And though I was active in a lot of Sports and got along with most of the guys, I think I used comedy as a defense mechanism. You know making someone laugh is a much better way to solve a problem than by using your fists.
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Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
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It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.
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As all of us with any involvement in sports knows, no two umpires or no two referees have the same strike zone or call the same kind of a basketball game.
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Academics often discount the value of top-rated sports programs in helping to develop a campus life and in contributing to the overall success of a college or university. Like it or not, the sports programs a college or university has are the front page of that university.
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The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
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Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
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I've always had an interest in sports across the board.
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I think we have our sports within our own culture that are huge with baseball, football, basketball, and hockey. Those are the sports in America that we grow up with and soccer isn't really there yet.
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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
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I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father.
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I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
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