Sports Quotes - Page 6

• I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Motivational, Dark

  Twitter post from Jan 18, 2011

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• I have failed at times, but I have never stopped trying.

  Rahul Dravid

  Perseverance, Failure, Not Giving Up

  "Have failed at times, but never stopped trying: Rahul Dravid". archive.indianexpress.com. March 10, 2012.

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• You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Isms, Beaten

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• The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

  Joe Paterno

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• There is no such thing as life in-between.

  Pat Riley

  Motivational, Basketball, Commitment

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  Dan Gable

  Determination, Wrestling, Athlete

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• If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

  Herschel Walker

  Motivational, Football, Athlete

  Herschel Walker (1989). “Herschel Walker's Basic Training”, Main Street Books

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• Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

  Jim Bouton

  Teamwork, Baseball, Football

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• I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Golf, Guitar, Way

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

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• Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

  Doug Collins

  Funny, Basketball, Team

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  I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Funny, Golf, Get Better

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• Sport is a preserver of health.

  Hippocrates

  Motivational Sports

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• We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

  Vince Lombardi

  Sarcastic, Football, Sarcasm

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  These young guys are playing checkers. I'm out there playing chess.

  Kobe Bryant

  Funny, Basketball, Guy

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• It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

  Vince Lombardi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Vince Lombardi, Jr. (2012). “What It Takes to Be Number One”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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  A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Athlete, Hockey, Player

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• Wrestling is ballet with violence.

  Jesse Ventura

  Wrestling, Ballet, Violence

  "Jesse Ventura's Theory of Politics". Interview with Vann R. Newkirk Ii, www.theatlantic.com. July 25, 2016.

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• Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Golf, Games, Balls

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• God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.

  Eric Liddell

  Motivational, Running, Athlete

  "Fictional character: Eric Liddell". "Chariots of Fire", www.imdb.com. 1981.

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• Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Play, Balls

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• Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.

  Dennis Rodman

  Funny, School, College

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• You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.

  Lee Trevino

  Husband, Golf, Games

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sexy, Fashion

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  There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Sarcastic, Humor

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• I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

  Jay Leno

  Basketball, Football, Giving Up

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