Sports Quotes - Page 26

• It is a poor sport that is not worth a candle.

  George Herbert

  Poor, Candle

  George Herbert (1861). “The Poetical Works of G. H. and R. Heber. With Memoir”, p.267

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• The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

  William Cowper

  Reading, Giving, Style

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.113

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• Ten thousand casks, Forever dribbling out their base contents, Touch'd by the Midas finger of the state, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. Drink, and be mad then; 'tis your country bids!

  William Cowper

  Country, Mad, Forever

  William Cowper, James Sambrook (2016). “William Cowper: The Task and Selected Other Poems”, p.156, Routledge

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• Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.

  Ben Jonson

  Lust, Decay, Done

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.740

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• Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.

  Alexander Pope

  Men, Unhappy, Unjust

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, William Warburton, Joseph Warton (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire”, p.27

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• I mean, when you've had a problem in your past, whether it's attributed directly to high cholesterol or not, you want to lower your cholesterol. You want to eat healthy. You want to feel healthy. You want to have a little more energy.

  Mike Ditka

  Mean, Past, Healthy

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• I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

  Mike Ditka

  Crazy, Winning, People

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• Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

  Joe Kapp

  Morning, Sweat, Waiting

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• When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.

  Linda Ellerbee

  Accomplishment, News, Records

  Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group

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• Here's the analogy. If my body were a car, I'd be thinking about trading it in around now. I would like to upgrade. I would be actually on the lot somewhere and some guy with a loud sports jacket would be sizing me up...kinda lookin' around goin--maybe kickin my knees. Looking behind me going: That looks a little bashed in back there...Yeah. You mind if I check under the hood?" 'Well yes I do! Thank you very much.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Thinking, Car, Guy

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• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Winning, Player, Chance

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• A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

  Warren Spahn

  Upset, Timing, Pitcher

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• I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. (When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

  Tug McGraw

  Grass, Dumb Sports

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• Every member of our baseball team at West Point became a general: this proves the value of team sports.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Baseball, Team, West Point

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• That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

  Billie Jean King

  Opportunity, Choices

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• Obviously the current approach on steroids both in professional sports and amateur sports is not working.

  Armand Hammer

  Currents, Steroid, Approach

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• Busy work brings after ease; Ease brings sport and sport brings rest; For young and old, of all degrees, The mingled lot is best.

  Joanna Baillie

  Degrees, Ease, Busy

  Joanna Baillie (1976). “The dramatic and poetical works”, p.806, Georg Olms Verlag

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• I knew that when I resigned from the University of Texas that I would never coach again.

  Darrell Royal

  Texas, University, Coaches

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• The marathon is all about energy management. I had planned to run it like a track race with strategic surges to blow up my competitors by putting them into oxygen debt, so that is the way I prepared.

  Frank Shorter

  Running, Blow, Race

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• When you are caring about your children perhaps you always have to remember at what point you can become over involved because of something you need rather than something the child needs.

  Frank Shorter

  Children, Caring, Needs

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• I think the secret of my light, quick, foot strike is related to the fact that I have fragile feet.

  Frank Shorter

  Thinking, Light, Feet

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• Sport, rightly conceived, is an occupation carried out by the whole man.

  Pope Pius XII

  Men, Occupation, Whole

  1945 Speech to the Central School of Sports of the USA, 29 Jul.

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• Somewhere in my wildest childhood I must have done something right. Being able to make a boyhood dream come true is one thing, but to have a kid come along and thrill his dad like Brett Hull has thrilled me over his career is too much for one guy to handle.

  Bobby Hull

  Dream, Dad, Kids

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• I am lucky, .. that the popular sport in the Soviet Union was chess and not baseball.

  Garry Kasparov

  Baseball, Lucky, Unions

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• What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

  Mark Spitz

  Perseverance, Successful, Years

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