694 private quotes tagged sports

“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.” — Barry Switzer

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“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.” — Henry David Thoreau

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“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.” — Dave Barry

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“Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.” — Yogi Berra

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“The game is won one play at a time.”

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“You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.” — Yogi Berra

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“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” — George Orwell

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“Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.” — Ambrose Bierce

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“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.” — H. L. Mencken

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“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.” — Robert Frost

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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

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“I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.” — Will Rogers

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“Golf is a good walk spoiled.” — Mark Twain

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“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.” — Walt Whitman

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“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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“The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.” — Billie Joe Armstrong

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“Despite the amazing diversity we're blessed with in this country, schools are still in large part segregated because of economic disparity. Sports are one of the few areas where kids are really given the opportunity to interact with those of different races and religions.” — Steve Kerr

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“And let that be a lesson to you all. Nobody beats Vitas Gerulaitis 17 times in a row.” — Vitas Gerulaitis

Context:After winning the 17th game against Jimmy Connors, who had beat him the previous 16 games.

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“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” — Michael Jordan

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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

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“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.” — Rodney Dangerfield

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“All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.” — John Hodgman

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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” — Hunter S. Thompson

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“Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, grace, learning and all their words azimuth only at love, respects only affection. Their nurses and their keepers imprint no other thing in them.” — Michel de Montaigne

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“It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.” — Muhammad Ali

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