Quotes on sports
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
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Ernie Banks Quotes
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
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Michael Ventre Quotes
Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
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George Mikes Quotes
There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.
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James Reston Quotes
There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
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George Foreman Quotes
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
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Jack Handey Quotes
October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
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Jason Love Quotes
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.
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Mike Royko Quotes
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
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Author Unknown Quotes
The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
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Roger Bannister Quotes
It is not how big you are, it's how big you play.
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Author Unknown Quotes
Cricket is baseball on valium.
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Robin Williams Quotes
Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.
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Martin H. Fischer Quotes
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
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Sylvester Stallone Quotes
I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.
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Rob Lee Quotes
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.
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Roger Angell Quotes
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
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Robert Morley Quotes
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.
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Blaise Pascal Quotes
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
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Lewis H. Lapham Quotes
Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.
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Ron Bolton Quotes
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
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Fran Lebowitz Quotes
Sport is a preserver of health.
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Hippocrates Quotes
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
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John Madden Quotes
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
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Jerry Barber Quotes
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
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Simon Gray Quotes
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
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Sandy Lyle Quotes
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.
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Peter Dunne Quotes
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated.
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Wanderley Luxemburgo Quotes
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
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H.L. Mencken Quotes
The key is not the "will to win" - everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
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Bobby Knight Quotes
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
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Alistair Cooke Quotes
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.
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Rodney Marsh Quotes
All sports are games of inches.
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Dick Ritger Quotes
With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
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Pete Rose Quotes
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
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Andrew Dickson White Quotes
To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
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Roland Barthes Quotes
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
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Kevin Keegan Quotes
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
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George Brett Quotes
Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience.
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Luke Neely Quotes
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
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Lord Mancroft Quotes
Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
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Author Unknown Quotes
A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.
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Nik Posa Quotes
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
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Sparky Anderson Quotes
Squash is boxing with racquets.
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Jonah Barrington Quotes
I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees.
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Jonathan Davies Quotes
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
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John Donne Quotes
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
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Abe Lemmons Quotes
I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
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Jay Leno Quotes
The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end.
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Laurence Malone Quotes
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words, it is war minus the shooting. There are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
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George Orwell Quotes
The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
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Red Smith Quotes
I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
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Robin Williams Quotes
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
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Steven Wright Quotes