Popular Sports Quotes - Page 2

• I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

  Garry Kasparov

  Sports, Baseball, Lucky

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• I'll let the racket do the talking.

  John McEnroe

  Funny, Sports, Volleyball

  The Times (London), June 26, 1984.

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• Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

  Greg LeMond

  Sports, Cycling, Racing

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• Football isn't a contact sport, it's a collision sport.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Sports, Football, Nfl Players

  Quoted in L.A. Times, 5 Oct. 1963

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• I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Inspirational Sports, Spring

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we are to elevate the game of chess to a popular sport, grandmasters must become gladiators, otherwise the game will languish on the periphery, a voice crying in the wilderness, condemned to live and die on a cold arctic shore.

  Michael Basman

  Sports, Games, Voice

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• Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sports, Perfect, United States

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• The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sports, Running

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• Chess only appeals to quite a small minority. It does not have the cachet of a mainstream popular sport.

  Magnus Carlsen

  Sports, Doe, Minorities

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• If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

  Hal Borland

  Sports, Country, Boys

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• It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.

  Claudio Reyna

  Sports, Country, World

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. March 27, 2006.

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• The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.

  Jean-Claude Killy

  Leadership, Sports, Volleyball

  Jean Claude Killy, Michael Halstead (1978). “Situation Skiing”, Doubleday Books

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• Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

  Ron Blomberg

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

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• The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

  John Madden

  Sports, Player, Nfl

  John Madden, Dave Anderson (1985). “Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book”, Random House Inc

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• I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Funny, Basketball, Money

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• Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

  Casey Stengel

  Motivational, Teamwork, Baseball

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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.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Husband, Golf

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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.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Children, Rip

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• Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

  Bobby Unser

  Success, Sports, Opportunity

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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.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• Football isn't a contact sport; it's a collision sport. Dancing is a contact sport.

  Vince Lombardi

  Motivational, Dance, Sports

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.

  Ernie Banks

  Sports, Athlete, Adversity

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work.

  Charley Lau

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

  Mia Hamm

  Inspirational, Motivational, Soccer

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