Famous Quotes: Sports

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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Professional sports are something they can't control.
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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
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All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
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Yeah, I think it motivates you as people start to count you out. It doesn't make you play any harder, because every time you go out on the field you give 110 percent, but it does give you more of an edge mentally, knowing that you were in the same situation, because in sports you always find yourself behind.
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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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We're a crazy country about sports, but for the longest time, only followed our own sports.
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Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
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Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
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The NFL is such a large, multibillion dollar enterprise with fan loyalty because they have provided not only entertainment for sports fans, but memories, good memories, family memories to these fans, that can only bring about good will.
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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 think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.
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ESPN has this problem with sports, it's impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
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A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
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Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.
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We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.
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When I did sports cartoons, I used to uh, go to fights.
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