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  Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

  Bo Jackson

  Baseball, Football, Crazy

  Bo Jackson, Dick Schaap (1990). “Bo knows Bo: the autobiography of a ballplayer”, Doubleday Books

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• You play to win the game...Hello. You play to win the game.

  Herman Edwards

  Winning, Games, Play

  News conference, Hempstead, N.Y., 30 Oct. 2002.

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• He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

  Eddie Shaw

  Art, Boxing, Poetic

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• When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling than to have that done.

  Matt Stairs

  Nice, Philadelphia, Guy

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• This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.

  Ted Walsh

  Mother, Horse, Lovely

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• Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Home, Waiting, Competition

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• Do you believe you're a starter or a benchwarmer? Do you believe you're an all-star or an also- ran? If the answers to these questions are the latter, your play on the field will reflect it. But when you've learned to shut off outside influences and believe in yourself, there's no telling how good a player you can be.

  Rod Carew

  Inspirational, Stars, Believe

  Rod Carew (1986). “Rod Carew's Art and Science of Hitting”, Viking Press

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• Winners see what they want. Losers see what they don't want. Don't let the game eat you; you eat the game.

  Moe Norman

  Motivational, Winning, Games

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• Doctors and scientists said breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead

  Roger Bannister

  Doctors, Track, Athletic

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• It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

  Pete Rose

  Baseball, Athlete, Squares

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• Attitude determines how well you do it.

  Lou Holtz

  Motivational Sports, Attitude, Exercise

  Lou Holtz (2009). “Winning Every Day: The Game Plan for Success”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

  Joe Theismann

  Funny, Football, Business

  "Conrad Smith sees USA challenge in all black and white: it's about the win" by Alexander Bisley, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2014.

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• We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves...The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable.

  Roger Bannister

  Motivational, Running, Freedom

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• You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.

  Eunice Kennedy Shriver

  Hope, Stars, Women

  "Eunice Kennedy Shriver, 1921-2009: She Changed the World for People With Mental Disabilities". learningenglish.voanews.com. August 21, 2009.

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• When you fall, get right back up. Just keep going, keep pushing it.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Motivational, Fall, Athlete

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• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in 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 you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

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• In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

  Tom Seaver

  Leadership, Baseball, Numbers

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

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• If you don't invest very much, then defeat doesn't hurt very much and winning is not very exciting.

  Dick Vermeil

  Inspirational, Hurt, Commitment

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• Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.

  Ed Coan

  Workout, Bodybuilding, Tree

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• I'm the strongest bodybuilding who ever lived, I think.

  Franco Columbu

  Strength, Workout, Thinking

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• The secret is to have eight great players and four others who will cheer like crazy.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Basketball, Teamwork, Cheer

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• The more honor and self-respect among players, the greater the team.

  Frosty Westering

  Basketball, Football, Respect

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• The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes, and everything else is just theory.

  Sepp Herberger

  Soccer, Football, Games

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• Some people tell me that we professional players are soccer slaves. Well, if this is slavery, give me a life sentence.

  Bobby Charlton

  Soccer, Football, Player

  1960 Quoted in Peter Ball and Phil Shaw The Book of Football Quotations (1989).

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• If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Player

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