694 private quotes tagged sports

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” — Mia Hamm

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“When did I know I had talent? I think it started when I first started playing sports, organized sports.” — LeBron James

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“I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north London is going to beat another bunch of mercenaries from west London.” — John Cleese

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“Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.” — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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“Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.” — Billie Jean King

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

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“Sports is human life in microcosm.” — Howard Cosell

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“I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.” — Joan Jett

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“It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.” — Cindy Crawford

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“The plays and sports of children are as salutary to them as labor and work are to grown persons.” — Samuel Richardson

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“We're not doing outrageous fashion I make sports clothes that are relatively conservative, clothes that everyone wears.” — Calvin Klein

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“Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.” — Benjamin Carson

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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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“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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“I've always been a guy who wants to play sports, not watch them.” — Shaun White

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“I always tell people that our sports aren't that dangerous.” — Shaun White

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“There's a whole lot more to the African-American community than entertainment and sports.” — J. C. Watts

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“That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl.” — John Madden

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“I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups.” — Rooney Mara

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“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.” — Lucy Powell

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“Sports is the toy department of human life.” — Howard Cosell

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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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“Don't sell yourself short because without that you can't go far in life because after sports the only thing you know is sports and you can't do anything else with that.” — Bo Jackson

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“I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports... back in Edmonton, Alberta - I can't give those people enough credit - and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.” — Nathan Fillion

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