Sports Quotes - Page 32

• For youth, everything is sport.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Youth

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• Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Men, Ideas, Pleasure

  'Letters of Julia and Caroline' (1787) Letter 1

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• Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated.

  Thomas Sowell

  Running, Mistake, Team

  "Ego and Mouth". www.realclearpolitics.com. November 2, 2008.

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• I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?

  Roger Ebert

  Baseball, Prayer, Team

  Roger Ebert (1995). “Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition”

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• Jeremy Lin is the only Asian American in the NBA today and one of the few in any professional U.S. sport. His arrival is surely leading other talented Asian American athletes this week to contemplate a pro career.

  Eric Liu

  Athlete, Nba, Careers

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• It is surprising to see what superficial, inconsequential reasonings satisfy the most part of mankind. A piece of wit, a jest, a simile, or a quotation of an Author, passes for a mighty argument.... This weakness and effeminacy of mankind in being persuaded where they are delighted, have made them the sport of orators, poets, and men of wit.

  John Arbuthnot

  Men, Pieces, Weakness

  George Atherton Aitken, John Arbuthnot (1892). “The Life and Works of John Arbuthnot, M.D.: Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians”

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• I don't want any sports anymore, except fighting which is the only sport I really watch - whether it's boxing or UFC. I don't know why. I think maybe it's an aspiration I didn't get the chance to explore more, but I don't think my father expected anything from me, I think it's more what I put on myself.

  Channing Tatum

  Father, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I tell kids not to be on the Internet. It's dangerous. It's not fun. It wastes your life. You should just be outside playing sports, instead of sitting in front of any type of screen.

  Miley Cyrus

  Fun, Kids, Waste

  "Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth Interview THE LAST SONG". Interview with Sara Wayland, collider.com. March 16, 2010.

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• Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle.

  Lil Wayne

  Hobbies, Lifestyle, Picks

  "Lil Wayne focuses on business, fashion". Associated Press Interview, www.cleveland.com. June 19, 2012.

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• Women want to know what's going on, whether it's the guys in the huddle the guys on the couch. One thing that's cool that I've seen as I've grown older is that women now think it is cool to enjoy sports and to sit there and talk the talk and know what's going on.

  Erin Andrews

  Thinking, Guy, Want

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• BMX is kind of a big guy sport, you know.

  Donny Robinson

  Bmx, Guy, Kind

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• Cameron Indoor Stadium is a special place in sports and there's really nothing else out there quite like it. Anytime I'm inside Cameron, I've got memories. Cameron is like Yankee Stadium or the old Boston Garden.

  Grant Hill

  Memories, Garden, Yankees

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• Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates
  the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.

  Ed Ayres

  War, Emotional, Redemption

  Ed Ayres (2013). “The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance”, p.91, Workman Publishing

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• I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

  Patrick Soon-Shiong

  Basketball, Football, Baseball

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• The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson

  Writing, Sea, Sight

  Rheta Grimsley Johnson (2010). “Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir”, p.190, NewSouth Books

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• Bringing more large sporting events to Africa would help the continent develop sports policies and at the same time optimize its peoples' chances of achieving competitive success.

  Richard Attias

  Events, Helping, Chance

  "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Sport allows us to engage in dialogue and to build bridges, and it may even have the capacity to reshape international relations. The Olympic Games embody perfectly this universal mission.

  Richard Attias

  Games, Bridges, May

  "The Olympics and the Spirit of Sport" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 27, 2012.

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• Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

  Richard Attias

  Country, Games, People

  "Africa’s Olympic Potential" by Richard Attias, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 3, 2013.

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• In the early years of the Roaring Twenties, American women not only won the right to vote but they also earned headlines along side their male counterparts during the Golden Age of American sports. Michael Bohn shares an engaging story of how two sports heroines, tennis player Helen Wills and swimmer Gertrude Ederle, helped embolden women to seek self-fulfillment by challenging the status quo.

  Donna de Varona

  Player, Two, Self

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• Have you seen a blowfish driving a sports car?

  Gwen Cooper

  Car, Driving, Torchwood

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• Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.

  Willa Cather

  Mean, Tiny, Toys

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.

  Leigh Hunt

  Thinking, Voice, Imagination

  Leigh Hunt (1834). “Leigh Hunt's London Journal”, p.21

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• ESPN has announced that they are launching a 3-D sports network. Industry analysts say this will absolutely revolutionize the way Americans don't watch soccer.

  Jay Leno

  Soccer, Watches, Way

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• My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.

  Damon Lindelof

  Baseball, Dad, Father

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• I think it is easier for thinner people to build on a frame once you get lean muscle. I get bored lifting weights at the gym, and it isn't enough as your body becomes stiff. So I train in different ways such as core training, cardio with weights, playing sports such as tennis, cycling, swimming and running 10 km once a week.

  Arjun Rampal

  Running, Swimming, Thinking

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