Sports Quotes - Page 25

• I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.

  Kohei Uchimura

  Strong, Believe, Japan

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• Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Destiny, Alas

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse”, p.52

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• Man, living, feeling man, is the easy sport of the over-mastering present.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Feelings, Easy

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• The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Golf, Play, Clothes

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• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Integrity, Play, Justice

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• Success is failure with the dirt brushed off.

  Mamie McCullough

  Motivational Sports, Dirt

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• A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

  Terry Orlick

  Loss, Excellence, Achieve

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• Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

  Terry Orlick

  Silver Platter, Hands, Excellence

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• In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.

  Terry Orlick

  Athlete, Mean, Competition

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• Fighting in the air is not sport. It is scientific murder.

  Eddie Rickenbacker

  Military, Fighting, Air

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• The game isn't over till the clock says zero.

  Paul Pierce

  Basketball, Zero, Games

  Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• I'm no good at cooking or music, but I've always known how to garden. Nobody ever taught me; I just absorbed it. Some families are churchgoers or sports fans. We gardened.

  Thalassa Cruso

  Garden, Cooking, Fans

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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Christian, Children

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• You always catch the wrong players.

  Abe Lemons

  Player, Psychology, Sports Psychology

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• Advertisers regularly con us into believing that we genuinely need one luxury after another. We are convinced that we must keep up with or even go one better than our neighbors. So we buy another dress, sports jacket or sports car and thereby force up the standard of living. The ever more affluent standard of living is the god of twentieth century North America and the adman is its prophet.

  Ronald J. Sider

  Believe, Luxury, America

  Ronald J. Sider (1977). “Rich Christians in an age of hunger: a Biblical study”, IVP Books

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• The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Athlete, Thinking, Light

  "Past wins aside, Mariel Zagunis still driven". Interview with Bonnie D. Ford, www.espn.com. December 8, 2011.

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• We've got a pretty close family. Just ended fourteen years of travel hockey with two boys. My daughter was always a part of that. So there's a lot of trips to the hockey games. As I tell idiotic, stupid, youth-sport parents, it's about the drive there and the drive back, not about the trophy or how your kid played. We've always had a good relationship with our kids. You're driving with them and talking to them at the age of eight. It became this adventure and they learned to love it. You connect, you really do. It's not for every family.

  Jeff Daniels

  Daughter, Stupid, Adventure

  "Jeff Daniels Talks RV". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. April 24, 2006.

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• I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight. We're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.

  Anthony Pettis

  Wrestling, Fighting, Pride

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• England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Two, England, Two Things

  Benjamin Disraeli, (1992). “The Sayings of Disraeli”, p.13, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath, and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.

  Horace

  War, Wrath, Fierce

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• Dwell not too long upon sports: for as they refresh a man that is weary, so they weary a man that is refreshed.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Long, Weary

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• Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee.

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Winter, Weather

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Illustrated)”, p.6851, Delphi Classics

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• England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale; 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale; A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

  Walter Scott

  Christmas, Xmas, Cheer

  Sir Walter Scott (1873). “Poetical Works”, p.112

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• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Lee Trevino

  Children, Taken, Quality

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• Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

  Stephanie Mills

  May, Given, Diverse

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.70, Island Press

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