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Sports Quotes
The only thing I can do is play baseball. I have to play ball. It's the only thing I know.
 Mickey Mantle |
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The biggest game I ever played in was probably Don Larsen's perfect game.
Mickey Mantle |
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To play 18 years in Yankee Stadium is the best thing that could ever happen to a ballplayer.
Mickey Mantle |
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I get way more nervous playing golf in front of 500 people than being on stage in front of 20,000 people.
Justin Timberlake |
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Basketball isn't as popular in Canada as it is in the US. Hockey is by far the most popular sport in Canada.
Steve Nash |
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I like to play golf. I like to shoot hoops.
Justin Timberlake |
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The crowd gives us so much energy and we are able to really feed off of it. Hitting those shots and having the crowd go crazy helps boost our confidence. We love our fans.
Steve Nash |
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The NBA has the best point guards in the world, so it is important that I come ready to play every night.
Steve Nash |
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It's nice to win. I'll never win again. I may have to take up golf - take on Tiger.
Lance Armstrong |
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
Harry Caray |
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
Harry Caray |
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To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
Lance Armstrong |
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Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A. A. Milne |
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But it is a black man's game, and it will be forever.
Larry Bird |
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
Larry Bird |
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
Larry Bird |
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
Larry Bird |
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The one thing that always bothered me when I played in the NBA was I really got irritated when they put a white guy on me.
Larry Bird |
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.
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We were sharing stories about basketball boyfriends.
Carmen Electra |
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Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.
Jackie Robinson |
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Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
Celine Dion |
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We have the best kids in the world, ... We don't always have the best athletes, but we got the best kids. And on top of being a good student, Corey is a good person.
James Monroe |
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I think both teams are evenly matched, ... Both teams played real well. This is a typical game between the two schools.
James Monroe |
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Never bet on baseball.
Pete Rose |
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Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Franklin P. Adams |
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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
Pete Rose |
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Golf is a thinking man's game. You can have all the shots in the bag, but if you don't know what to do with them, you've got troubles.
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I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
Jamie Foxx |
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Remember you have to be comfortable. Golf is not a life or death situation. It's just a game and should be treated as such. Stay loose.
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I would love to learn to play something so I don't have to rely on someone to collaborate with.
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I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I wanted to be a businessman after my basketball career was over, and that is what I am doing now.
Magic Johnson |
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
Malcolm Gladwell |
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Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.
Harmon Killebrew |
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It's very disappointing... Anything that harms the integrity of the game is terrible. We always thought we were immune to drugs in baseball, but we know that's not true anymore.
Harmon Killebrew |
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The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
Heidi Klum |
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It's been years since I've had a real input in the game anyway. For this game, I've just tried to keep all the other stuff away from the players and coaches.
Bear Bryant |
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I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman |
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If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.
Henny Youngman |
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Baseball needs to put the steroids era behind it by having and enforcing tough rules against all kinds of artificial advantages, so that spring can return.
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I'll forever be a fan. ... He's just a good guy. He gave you the time. He was interested, fun. You could tell he had a passion for golf.
Jim Jones |
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Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
Jim Murray |
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Let me tell you, if Luongo doesn't play the way he did in the Czech game, we don't win the World Cup. It's as simple as that. And we now know what a guy like him can do
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He just has to get off to the kind of start that he's capable of and it's as simple as that.
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We finally feel like we have a pretty good hockey club here and I wanted to be a part of that, simple as that
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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno |
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It's been a long time since I've enjoyed watching a high school football game like this.
Bill Murray |
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What a great day for football, all we need is some green grass and a ball.
Bill Murray |
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Being a celebrity or anything else where you're really ambitious, it's really a game to see how successful you can get.
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“I want to make it clear to sportsmen that this is federal money being spent, not Game and Fish dollars, ... But this is an excellent project.”
Bill Williams |
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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“You've got to win in sports -- that's talent -- but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.”
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“I was a high school basketball player and high jumper, so I thought I could help,”
Bjork |
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Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.
Bo Jackson |
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“Football is easy if you're crazy as hell”
Bo Jackson |
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That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things.
Boris Becker |
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry |
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Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
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My private life is perfect. If your private life and your life outside football is good, then it is good on the field for you.
David Beckham |
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I've never seen them shoot that well. They shot us right out of the fight.
John Jay |
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It's a conclusion of a marvelous career of an honorable man. Everything good about college basketball is in Dick Bennett.
John Jay |
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It's obvious that Lamar was our most valuable player. At Oregon State University at this particular time, if you lose your most valuable player it's hard.
John Jay |
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I'm obviously very proud of our guys and their fight. The guys hung in there. There were a couple of times in the first half and the second when we could have been blown out of here.
John Jay |
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We should just get somebody from the left and the right and they should all throw bumper stickers at each other and the first one to cover the other one wins.
David Cross |
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Now he must not go the wrong way round the circuit, and unless he can spin himself stationary through 360 degrees I fail to see how he can avoid doing so.
Murray Walker |
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The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.
Murray Walker |
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There are seven winners of the Monaco Grand Prix on the starting line today, and four of them are Michael Schumacher.
Murray Walker |
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Well, now we have exactly the same situation as at the beginning of the race, only exactly opposite.
Murray Walker |
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When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.
Ty Cobb |
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With half the race gone, there is half the race still to go.
Murray Walker |
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You can cut the tension with a cricket stump.
Murray Walker |
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You might not think that's cricket, and it's not, it's motor racing.
Murray Walker |
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We're looking to see who the guys are that are going to step up and take some more shots on goal.
John Marshall |
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I love baseball, especially this time of year. To rub shoulders with Goose and the other guys is an added treat.
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The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.
Dean Smith |
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In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
Derek Jeter |
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That's how you win - pitching and defense.
Derek Jeter |
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I have the greatest job in the world. Only one person can have it. You have shortstops on other teams-I'm not knocking other teams-but there's only one shortstop on the Yankees.
Derek Jeter |
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I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
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I have a lot of respect for her. She was my favorite player growing up. That's why I started grunting; I wanted to be like Monica.
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I feel like I played well, it was one of my best matches this year, everything's getting better.
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An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.
Sidney J. Harris |
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