Sports Quotes - Page 7

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  My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

  Hank Aaron

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

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• I really lack the words to compliment myself today.

  Alberto Tomba

  Thinking, Today, Compliment

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• When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

  Don Drysdale

  Screw Ups, World, Checks

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• Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

  Vin Scully

  Funny Baseball, Knees, Day To Day

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• I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.

  Tug McGraw

  Alcohol, Drug, Knows

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• To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.

  Mary Russell Mitford

  Thinking, Cash, Ruins

  1823 Letter to R B Haydon, 24 Aug.

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• I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.

  Rob Lee

  Heart, Boys, Wife

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• As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.

  Kevin Keegan

  Gun, Bullets, Barrels

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• I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.

  Al Oerter

  Inspirational, Funny, Thinking

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• The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.

  Neville Cardus

  Order, Umpires, Geysers

  Neville Cardus (2012). “Cardus on Cricket: A selection from the cricket writings of Sir Neville Cardus”, p.149, Souvenir Press

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• It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Past, Men

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• They are who we thought they were!

  Dennis Green

  Greatest Sports

  "'The Bears are who we thought they were!' An oral history of a magical Monday night". Interview with Dan Wiederer, www.chicagotribune.com. October 16, 2016.

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• It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.

  Joe Kinnear

  War, Arrows, Nuclear

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  Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

  Satchel Paige

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Cheer

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• I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, Heart, Brain

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• The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Pain, Motivation

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• In training, you listen to your body. In competition, you tell your body to shut up.

  Rich Froning Jr.

  Competition, Listening, Training

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• You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

  Gordie Howe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Athlete

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• Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Fun, Athlete

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• What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

  Andre Agassi

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Athlete

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2016

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• It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

  Lou Holtz

  Inspirational, Attitude, Freedom

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• You can't tell a kid that it's time to exercise; that's a turn-off...you have to say 'Let's go to the park and have some fun.' Then you get them to do some running, play on the swings, practice on the balance beam, basically get a full workout disguised as play.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Running, Workout

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• Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Tree

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Athlete

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• I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Fighting, Hockey, Night

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