694 private quotes tagged sports

“I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.” — Roger Kahn

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“You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.” — Joe DiMaggio

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“He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.” — Nick Faldo

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“He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.” — Gary McCord

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“The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.” — Bob Verdi

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“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.” — Tom Landry

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“He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.” — Nick Price

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“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.” — Charley Lau

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“If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.” — Tommy Bolt

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“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.” — Gordie Howe

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“I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.” — Joel Osteen

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“Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.” — Gabrielle Union

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“I liked the energy of cooking, the action, the camaraderie. I often compare the kitchen to sports and compare the chef to a coach. There are a lot of similarities to it.” — Todd English

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“The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.” — Jack Kevorkian

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“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.” — Kurt Russell

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“The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.” — Billy Graham

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“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” — Joseph Chilton Pearce

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“I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.” — Lou Holtz

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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

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“I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.” — Joe Rogan

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“I have never seen a wrestling match or a prize fight, and I don't want to. When I find out a man is interested in these sports, I drop him.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“Well, I'm not a big sports fan.” — Jeff Bridges

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“But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.” — LeBron James

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“My dad was a sports writer when I was younger and then he became just a general columnist. But I grew up with him literally getting into brawls with football coaches.” — Amy Klobuchar

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“If architecture is, as is sometimes said, music set in concrete, then football and basketball may be said to be creativity embodied in team sports.” — Michael Mandelbaum

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