Sports Quotes - Page 36

• As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

  John McEnroe

  Used, Used To Be

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• Boxing is the sport to which all other sports aspire.

  George Foreman

  Boxing, Aspire

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• Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.

  Rick Reilly

  Loss, Winning, Matter

  "Heading for home" by Rick Reilly, abcnews.go.com. June 10, 2014.

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• As far as our culture of humiliation goes, what we need is a revolution. Public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.

  Monica Lewinsky

  Blood, Revolution, Needs

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• Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

  Rick Reilly

  Cat, Years, Two Year Olds

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• For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

  Jane Austen

  Neighbor, Reviews, Endless

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• These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.

  Jerry Sloan

  Mean, Winning, Years

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• Sport is the only profession I know of that when you retire you have to go to work.

  Earl Monroe

  Funny, Nba, Retiring

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• It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.

  Al Kaline

  Hurt, League, Age

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• At times they don't like you to kick them and they feel you're not allowed to kick them.

  Alan Shearer

  Like You, Kicks, Feels

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• I just don't see the light. Where is the light? What am I in this for?

  Alex Rodriguez

  Light

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• I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Father, Thinking

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• I truly believe my job starts the minute I leave the baseball field. Going out and catching ground balls and hitting, that's a job, and that's what I've wanted to do ever since I was a kid. But when you think about leaving that field, that's when the job and the demands really start. In New York, Seattle, every city. The community, the media, business stuff. You have to stay on a narrow path.

  Alex Rodriguez

  Baseball, New York, Jobs

  "A-Rod and Jeter: Rewind". Interview with Alan Schwarz, www.baseballamerica.com. February 19, 2004.

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• I've been in Philadelphia 10 years, man. I knew it was going to be a challenge, mentally. I always thought life would come to an end if I ever left Philadelphia. And I feel like a newborn. Being in Denver it's just a better situation for me. And I'm just happy that I feel like I got an opportunity where I can win basketball games here.

  Allen Iverson

  Basketball, Opportunity, Men

  Interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 23, 2007.

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• We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.

  Allen Iverson

  Fun, Giving Up, Pride

  InsideHoops.com interview, www.insidehoops.com. March 23, 2007.

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• I can still play this game at a high level; I've proven that. I want to be home. I want to be close to my family. I want to be close to my foundation and my business interests.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Home, Play, Games

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• I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Winning, Nerves, Want

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• I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Player, Years, Ties

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• It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Juniors, Realising, Happens

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Tennis, Special, World

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• Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Firsts, Tough, Cases

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• When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled. It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors. It was three years between the junior ranks and reaching the Australian Open, and even then, having reached the final against Hingis, I wasn't really realising what it would take to go higher.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Winning, Years, Half

  Interview with Stephen Bierley, www.theguardian.com. May 23, 2004.

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• It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie.

  Andre Agassi

  Team, Mean, Ties

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• Concentrate on defense because the offense will come.

  Andrew Bogut

  Defense, Offense

  Interview with Victor Kelly, www.ign.com. February 8, 2006.

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• I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive. I mean, I am settled off the court; the business side of things, the papers, contracts and all of that, but there are a lot things that I need to work on, on the court, like my free-throw shooting, which has been terrible. I need to work on being more demanding in the post. My teammates are going to come to me and I just need to go out there and score in the post, which will open up things for our guards.

  Andrew Bogut

  Mean, Thinking, Teammate

  Interview with Bobby Ciafardini, www.insidehoops.com. November 10, 2008.

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