Motivational Sports Quotes - Page 21

• I was called Rembrandt Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Sports, Boxing

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• To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.

  Roland Barthes

  Sports, Dope, Trying

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• People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.

  Don Murray

  Sports, Kids, Rocks

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• All sports are games of inches.

  Dick Ritger

  Sports, Games, Inches

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• Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sports, Character, Opportunity

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• 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.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Sports, People, Looks

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.34, Vintage

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• I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Sports, Dark, Umpires

  "Lynne Truss is latest in a tradition of distaff talents to grace the sportspages" by Frank Keating, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2009.

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• Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.

  Benjamin Mancroft, 3rd Baron Mancroft

  Sports, Spiritual, Order

  Bees in Some Bonnets (1979) p. 185

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• Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.

  Alec Douglas-Home

  Sports, Rain, Heaven

  Quoted in Helen Exley Cricket Quotations (1992).

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• The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.

  Robert Morley

  Sports, Men, Balls

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• The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.

  Red Smith

  Sports, Years, Two

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• Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.

  Peter Dunne

  Sports, Motor Racing, Mph

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• I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

  Simon Gray

  Sports, Religious, Play

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• If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

  John Donne

  Sports, Play, Loser

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• We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

  Al Attles

  Sports, Defense, Four

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• 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.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Eye, Goal

  Roger Angell (2013). “The Summer Game”, p.348, Open Road Media

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• I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.

  Andrew Dickson White

  Sports, Men, Wind

  On refusing permission for a team from Cornell University to visit Michigan to play a game of American football. Quoted in D Wallechinsky The People's Almanac (1975).

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• When it comes to the game of life, I figure I've played the whole course.

  Lee Trevino

  Life, Sports, Games

  Lee Trevino, Sam Blair (1985). “The snake in the sandtrap (and other misadventures on the golf tour)”, Henry Holt & Co

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• They say football is America's greatest game, but it's not. The greatest game in America is called opportunity. Football is merely a great expression of it.

  Joe Kapp

  Sports, Football, Opportunity

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• The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"

  Henny Youngman

  Sports, Mean, Giving

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• Sports are 90% inspiration and 10% perspiration.

  Johnny Miller

  Success, Sports, Inspiration

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• Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

  Lou Holtz

  Sports, Player, Giving

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• At home we're the hosts, and I never liked the idea of being embarrassed in front of our friends.

  Knute Rockne

  Motivational, Sports, Football

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• Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

  Don Meyer

  Motivational, Sports, Player

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• You never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.

  Darrell Royal

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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