Sports Quotes - Page 12

• That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• All sports are games of inches.

  Dick Ritger

  Motivational Sports, Games, Inches

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• We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Success, Basketball, Winning

  Wilt Chamberlain (1992). “A View from Above”, Signet

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• The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational, Basketball, Teamwork

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• One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Teamwork, Athlete

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2013

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• Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Graduation, Football

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.10, University of Georgia Press

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• Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

  Frank Gifford

  Football, Nfl, Warfare

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• Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Inspirational, Athlete, Nursing

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• I'll always be Number 1 to myself.

  Moses Malone

  Basketball, Hockey, Numbers

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Games, Comfort

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• Losing is the great American sin.

  Jerome Holtzman

  Losing, Great American, Motivational Sports

  Jerome Holtzman (1978). “No Cheering in the Press Box”

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• I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

  Robin Williams

  Lacrosse, Church, Lax

  1982 Interview in Playboy.

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

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Boxing, Canvas

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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

  Kids, Rocks, People

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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

  Dark, Umpires, Two

  "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

  Spiritual, Order, Games

  Bees in Some Bonnets (1979) p. 185

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

  Robert Morley

  Men, Balls, Wheels

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

  Peter Dunne

  Motor Racing, Mph, Break

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• There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.

  George Foreman

  Inspirational, Boxing, Hitting

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• My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

  Duffy Daugherty

  Games, Feelings, Superstitions

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• It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Perseverance, Funny Inspirational

  "The Graduation Speech I Never Got to Give" by Laura Myers, ndsmcobserver.com. May 20, 2011.

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• You have to have the mentality of executing your game when you don't feel like there's a lot of hope. I think the best feeling is when somebody pushes you to the limit and you dig down a little bit extra. By the same token, you also need a little luck. Sometimes they come together.

  Andre Agassi

  Motivational, Athlete, Thinking

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• There's nobody you'd rather beat than your good friend.

  Charles Barkley

  Good Friend, Hockey, Beats

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• To be as good as it can be, a team has to buy into what you as the coach are doing. They have to feel you're a part of them and they're a part of you.

  Bobby Knight

  Team, Coaching, Feels

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• Sport is an international phenomenon, like science or music.

  Avery Brundage

  Olympics, Phenomenon, International

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