Sports Quotes - Page 15

• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Jobs, Athlete

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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• Chess is like body-building. If you train every day, you stay in top shape. It is the same with your brain - chess is a matter of daily training.

  Vladimir Kramnik

  Bodybuilding, Training, Brain

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• The goal is to win. It's not about making money. I have many much less risky ways of making money than this (buying Chelsea football club). I don't want to throw my money away, but it's really about having fun and that means success and trophies.

  Roman Abramovich

  Funny, Success, Football

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• They call Ray Robinson the best fighter, pound for pound. I'm the best fighter, ounce for ounce.

  Willie Pep

  Funny, Boxing, Rays

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• Sometimes, when we train, we simply have to go out to meet the Man with the Hammer

  Laurent Fignon

  Men, Hammers, Sometimes

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• McDonald's being the official restaurant of the Olympics is like smoking being the official medicine of cancer.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Sarcastic, Cancer, Food

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• Take the feeling of hunger out of your gut, and you're no longer a champion

  Burt Lancaster

  Champion, Feelings, Hunger

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• Yes, I thought I was joining Manchester United, I was misled by all involved. I wasnt aware of another Manchester team

  Robinho

  Funny, Football, Team

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• Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.

  Matt Biondi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

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

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  When my time on earth is done and my activities here are past, I want them to bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass.

  Bobby Knight

  Inspirational, Basketball, Kissing

  "Knight moves to Texas" by Kevin Asseo, news.bbc.co.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• I've learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Football

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• Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

  John Wooden

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Success, Teamwork

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• You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place.

  James Lane Allen

  Inspirational, Motivational, Faces

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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

  Religious, Play, Facts

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• Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.

  Doug Plank

  Football, Player, Nfl

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• You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

  Harry Caray

  Games, Loser, Knows

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  Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

  Tom Landry

  Inspirational, Motivational, Teamwork

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• Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

  Don Shula

  Funny, Football, Mean

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• When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

  Steffi Graf

  Funny, Volleyball, Strong Women

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• Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.

  George A. Sheehan

  New York, Hero, Men

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• The man who has no imagination has no wings.

  Muhammad Ali

  Inspirational, Motivational, Spiritual

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2010

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• People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

  Rogers Hornsby

  Baseball, Spring, Athlete

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

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• It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

  Al McGuire

  Country, Silly, Athlete

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