Sports Quotes - Page 4

• It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

  H. L. Mencken

  Golf, Gambling, Pool Table

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  The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Inspirational, Positive, Courage

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3045, Library of Alexandria

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• Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

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• Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Athlete, Differences

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• If you can't win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

  John McKeithen

  Running, Winning, Track

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• Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.

  A. A. Gill

  Country, Kids, Eye

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• Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

  Kim Clijsters

  Athlete, People, Stubbornness

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• We had a lot of adversity, but we found a way.

  Matt Holliday

  Motivational, Adversity, Way

  "Albert Pujols, Cardinals on to the World Series". www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• You're going to feel good. But no matter how much you rehab you do, you can't speed up the healing process. I would rather see a guy come back in 14 months and pitch seven, eight or nine more years then come back in 10 months and get hurt again. You cannot mess with mother nature and father time. Nature will heal it if you give it time.

  Tommy John

  Motivational, Mother, Hurt

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• With the game on the line. I want the ball in my hands.

  Eli Manning

  Hands, Games, Balls

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• The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.

  Steve Garvey

  Baseball, Athlete, Names

  "There's No I in Team, But Me Plays a Big Role" by Tom Gerdy, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 19, 2012.

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• Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

  Red Auerbach

  Motivational, Basketball, War

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• I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Rip, Heart

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• When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

  Fran Lebowitz

  People, Looks, Trials

  Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.34, Vintage

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• I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

  Robert Frost

  Play, Tennis, Icy

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• The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Motivational, Dog, Determination

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• Sports are a microcosm of society.

  Billie Jean King

  Microcosm

  "The First Of Billie Jean King's 50 Wimbledons". Interview With Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. June 26, 2011.

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• Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Volleyball

  Vince Lombardi, George L. Flynn (1973). “Vince Lombardi on football”

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• The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

  John Madden

  Player, Nfl, American Football

  John Madden, Dave Anderson (1985). “Hey, wait a minute, I wrote a book”, Random House Inc

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• I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Hate, Common Sense, Modern Life

  Quoted in Fred Metcalfe The Penguin Dictionary of Modern Humorous Quotations (1986).

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  Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

  Joe Paterno

  Loyalty, Running, Heart

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• Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

  Dan Quayle

  Winning, Knights, Stupidity

  David S. Broder, Bob Woodward, Dan Quayle (1992). “The man who would be president: Dan Quayle”

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• Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Golf, Play, Earthquakes

  1990 Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• The rewards are going to come, but my happiness is just loving the sport and having fun performing.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Fun, Athlete, Athletic

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• Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.

  Alistair Cooke

  Believe, People, Literature

  Alistair Cooke (2013). “Golf: The Marvelous Mania”, p.48, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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