Sporting Events Quotes

• Rock 'n' roll but I also like sporting events a lot. I love Mike Piazza.

  Angie Everhart

  Rocks, Events, Rock N Roll

  Interview with AskMen, www.askmen.com.

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• It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.

  Sandy Lyle

  Sports, Funny Inspirational, Golf

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• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

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• Being a celebrity you always get really good seats to sporting events but you never get as good seats as the photographers get. And I really love sports. So one of the scams I have going now is I want to learn sports photography so I can get better seats at a sporting event.

  Drew Carey

  Sports, Photography, Get Better

  FaceBook post by Drew Carey from Feb 11, 2013

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• You might be a redneck if your momma tore her best dress coon hunting.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Redneck, Hunting, Dresses

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• It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you place the blame.

  Oscar Wilde

  Winning, Blame, Funny Simpsons

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• Champions do not become champions when they win the event, but in the hours, weeks, months and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely the demonstration of their championship character.

  Alan Armstrong

  Sports, Running, Athlete

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• Everyone wins the marathon. We all have the same feeling at the start-nervous, anxious, excited. It is a broader, richer, and even with twenty-seven thousand people-more intimate experience than I found when racing in track. New York is the marathon that all the biggest stars want to win, but has also been the stage for an array of human stories more vast than any other sporting event.

  Grete Waitz

  Running, New York, Stars

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• Whenever humans come together for any reason, music is there: weddings, funerals, graduation from college, men marching off to war, stadium sporting events, a night on the town, prayer, a romantic dinner, mothers rocking their infants to sleep ... music is a part of the fabric of everyday life.

  Daniel Levitin

  Mother, Prayer, War

  Daniel J. Levitin (2011). “This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession”, p.6, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Despite streaming, despite the rise of tablets and smartphones - all the implications which in theory would make linear TV less important - live sporting events are extremely powerful. But it's not the event alone - it's also what's surrounding it.

  Martin Sorrell

  Powerful, Smartphones, Important

  Source: www.formula1.com

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• If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?

  Mark Cuban

  Mom, Running, Brother

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• That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

  Bernhard Langer

  Sports, Moving, Golf

  Interview with Julius Mason, www.rydercup.com. September 14, 2004.

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• You should've gone to China, you know, 'cause I hear they give away babies like free iPods. You know, they pretty much just put them in those t-shirt guns and shoot them out at sporting events.

  Ellen Page

  Baby, Gun, Should Have

  "Fictional character: Juno MacGuff". "Juno", www.imdb.com. September 1, 2007.

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• If we want to go to space with humans, that's for fun not for science. Human adventures in space are just sporting events.

  Freeman Dyson

  Fun, Adventure, Space

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• You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game.

  Mark Russell

  Baseball, Football, Games

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• If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.

  Fran Drescher

  Events, Vip, Way

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• Boxing is my real passion. I can go to ballet, theatre, movies, or other sporting events... and nothing is like the fights to me. I'm excited by the visual beauty of it. A boxer can look so spectacular by doing a good job.

  LeRoy Neiman

  Jobs, Real, Passion

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• For me, by far, the Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world.

  Andy Murray

  Events, World, Olympics

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

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• I spend a lot of time idly. I go to sporting events, play my clarinet. I practise. But if you work every day, a certain amount on a steady basis, the work accumulates.

  Woody Allen

  Work, Play, Events

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• This decision will only strengthen the bond between women players and one of the world's great sporting events [on equal prize money at Wimbledon

  Maria Sharapova

  Player, Prize Money, Decision

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• The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Congratulations, Winning, Thinking

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• I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.

  Michael Bay

  Race, Events, Looks

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• I love sports, but I don't like live sporting events, because I don't like sitting in the crowd. I like listening to records, but I don't like going to concerts, because I don't like standing in the crowd. I guess I just don't like being in the crowd itself.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Sports, Listening, Events

  "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

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• I don't physically put Appetite For Destruction in and listen to it, but I hear it on the radio or at sporting events or wherever else it pops up, and it's great. I dig everything about it. When I hear Appetite, it sounds like exactly what it was. It sounds like a record made by an angry bunch of kids.

  Slash

  Kids, Sound, Events

  Interview with Trevor Kelley, music.avclub.com. September 19, 2007.

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• I played college soccer before I was hurt, and just to be able to jump back into something that you could be so competitive at or you can achieve, to get to the Paralympics, that's the first really big achievement that you can have. It's the second biggest sporting event in the world. To be a part of it and to get a medal for that, it's unreal.

  Mark Zupan

  Soccer, Hurt, College

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