Sports Quotes - Page 27

• Mountain climbing was my original sport ... and I've never tired from the satisfaction of getting to the top of a mountain.

  Steve Fossett

  Tired, Climbing, Mountain

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• I've been in sport for 15 years now and I'm actually shocked at the changes. We had all these things, but we couldn't utilize them. They were not accessible to us. They're actually accessible right now.

  Clara Hughes

  Years, Right Now, Shocked

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• Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.

  Dante Hall

  Games, Fans, Offensive

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• It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

  Alan Kulwicki

  Sunday, Night, Nascar Racing

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• Drinking is an art, not a sport. You make it a sport, you're dead in the water, you lose everything. It'll kill you, I tell you.

  Michael Moriarty

  Art, Drinking, Water

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• Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

  Roger Tory Peterson

  Hunting, Doors, Giving

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• I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.

  Bud Selig

  Football, Jobs, Hate

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• To be honest, I still don't feel like I'm a representative or an ambassador for the sport.

  Tony Stewart

  Ambassadors, Honest, Feels

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• You have to be like a clock spring, wound but not loose at the same time.

  Dave Winfield

  Spring, Clock, Wounds

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

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• It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.

  Venus Williams

  Nice, Winning, Cups

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• Blood sport is brought to its ultimate refinement in the gossip columns.

  Bernard Ingham

  Blood, Gossip, Columns

  1986 Speech, 5 Feb.

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• Sometimes, however, the Gaelic blood asserts itself. The Frenchmen will then attack. But the French attacking spirit is like bottled lemonade. It lacks tenacity. The Englishmen, on the other hand, one notices that they are of Germanic blood. Sportsmen easily take to flying, and Englishmen see in flying nothing but a sport.

  Manfred von Richthofen

  Blood, Hands, Flying

  Manfred von Richthofen (2009). “The Red Baron”, p.128, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Sport hunting is a crime. My sympathies are with the fox.

  Wallis Simpson

  Hunting, Foxes, Crime

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• That's why I don't talk. Because I talk too much.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Too Much

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• If somebody mistreats you, treat’em good. That kills’em.

  Bobby Bowden

  Nfl, Ems, Killing

  “Bobby Bowden: What I've Learned” by Call Fussman, www.esquire.com. November 30, 2009.

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• Trophies should go to the winners. Self-esteem does not lead to success in life. Self-discipline and self-control do, and sports can help teach those.

  Roy Baumeister

  Self Esteem, Discipline, Self Control

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• In Spain and Italy I would not have a life among the fans. Everyone wants to touch you, own you and approach you. I try to be as kind as possible to all my fans, but in those countries I could not do it. There they ask too much from you.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Country, Trying, Spain

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• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it is time we prepared ourselves for the greatest celebration of Pom-bashing since Bodyline, the 1930s cricket tour that became an international incident. That one rankles to this day and is otherwise known as the longest whinge in sporting history.

  Simon Barnes

  Team, Two, Australia

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• But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

  Steve Spurrier

  Football, Real, Book

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• I can't blame the drivers for making the move, and I can't blame the owners for being upset. Keep in mind, this ain't like the real world where you work somewhere and you can stay 40 years. Being able to see where you are going just a few years ahead is a pretty cool deal, and it doesn't happen too often in any sport, much less stock car racing.

  Ken Schrader

  Real, Moving, Stock Car Racing

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• My goal had been to win a championship, work toward the Hall of Fame, have my jersey retired by the team and I'd go in as a lifelong New York Giant, but I'm now resigned to the fact that this won't happen.

  Michael Strahan

  New York, Team, Winning

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• Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.

  Alexander Hume

  Bears, Unchristian, Cruelty

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• There is no defeat except for those who give up.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Success, Giving Up, Defeat

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• I would love to fall in love and get married and have beautiful children. I mean that's one of the goals in life, I think, to have, and it's a beautiful thing. My sister has kids and all my friends have kids. They show me their, you know their report cards. And I can show them my sports car.

  Tiesto

  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Children

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.

  Carl Schurz

  Love, Change, Stars

  Carl Schurz, Frederic Bancroft (1913). “Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz”, Putnam Juvenile

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