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Gary Player
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The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, "There's a star." The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, "Superstar." I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.
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Carl Lewis
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My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus."
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Paul Harvey
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Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
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Joe Garagiola
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I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
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Joe Garagiola
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I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
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Steve Garvey
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The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
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Frank Gifford
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
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It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves yo
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Paul Harvey
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Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
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Blaise Pascal
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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 h
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General George Patton
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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.
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Voula Patoulidou
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This phrase, Citius, Altius, Fortius is the Olympic Motto.
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Sasha Azevedo
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also attributed to Vince Lombardi
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Arnold Schwarzenegger
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There is no greater honor than the one received by athletes the moment they see the raised flag of their country at the highest level, and when they hear their national anthem inundating every corner of the stadium and reaching the ends of the earth.
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Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
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From speech in an Olympic Education event, 4 November 2000.
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William Shakespeare
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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
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William Wordsworth
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Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
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Tiger Woods
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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.
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Tiger Woods
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My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back. If it works, it works.
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Tiger Woods
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I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.
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Katarina Witt
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When I go out on the ice, I just think about my skating. I forget it is a competition.
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Woodrow Wilson
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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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George Will
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Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing chemistry of Cub fans' loyalty. But their unique steadfastness through thin and thin has something to do with the team's Franciscan simplicity.
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Walt Whitman
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I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
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William A. Ward
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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Bob Verdi
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What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
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Bob Verdi
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The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
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Ken Venturi
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You can't be compared to a Hogan or a Nicklaus until you do it. But... after having dinner with Tiger, he's the most mature 18-year-old golfer I've known.
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Jesse Ventura
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
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Harry Vardon
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Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
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John Updike
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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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Peter Ueberroth
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Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
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Peter Ueberroth
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Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
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Peter Ueberroth
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The integrity of the game is everything.
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Mike Tyson
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I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.
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Mark Twain
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
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Lee Trevino
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You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
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Henry David Thoreau
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.
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Casey Stengel
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Most ball games are lost, not won.
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Charles Spalding
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There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
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Warren Spahn
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Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
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Sam Snead
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
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Mike Singletary
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Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
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Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
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Pete Rose
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
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Will Rogers
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I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
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Grantland Rice
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Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
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Dan Quayle
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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Nick Price
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Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
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Heywood
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
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Peter Ueberroth
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Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
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Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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Children's playthings are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.
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Jane Austen
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I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
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Ernest Hemingway
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Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports. . . all others are games.
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Earl Warren
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I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
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Earl Warren
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The sports page records people's accomplishments The front page nothing but their failures.
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GAY: _Rural Sports,_ Canto ii., Line 96.
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The healthy huntsman, with a cheerful horn, Summons the dogs and greets the dappled Morn. The jocund thunder wakes the enliven'd hounds, They rouse from sleep, and answer sounds for sounds.
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Theodore Roosevelt
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I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.
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Oliver Goldsmith
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The dancing pair that simply sought renown,By holding out to tire each other downThe swain mistrustless of his smutted face,While secret laughter titter'd round the placeThe bashful virgin's side-long looks of love,The matrons glance that would those looks reproveThese were thy charms, sweet village sports like these,With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to pleaseThese were thy bowers their cheerful influence shed,These were thy charms -- but all these charms are fled.
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Not every age is fit for childish sports.
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The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.
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Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
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There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.
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"Nice moves. Too bad this isn't Wide World of Sports."--Dark Helmet
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"Canada 7 games to 1." Mark Mulvoy, Sports Illustrated.
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"How about that local sports team!?" -- Monty Burns to his workers
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"Hold it! What in the Wide World of Sports is agoin' on?"
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"Should I bring my sports bra in case I get chased?" -- Crow
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"How about that local sports team!?" - Monty Burns
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"If you don't play sports, you don't get to make beer commercials."-C&H
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"Oh gross! He's wearing a sports bra!" -- Tom Servo
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Science would be ruined if (like sports) it were to put competition above everything else, and if it were to clarify the rules of competition by withdrawing entirely into narrowly defined specialties. The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essenti
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"It's a rock, it's a phone, it's a rock phone!" - Dinosaur Sports ad
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