694 private quotes tagged sports

“The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.” — Ben Hogan

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“The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.” — Bob Lemon

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“I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.” — Al McGuire

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“All sports for all people.” — Pierre de Coubertin

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“Sometimes in football you have to score goals.” — Thierry Henry

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“Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.” — Ben Hogan

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“If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.” — Charles Barkley

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“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.” — Frank Gifford

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“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.” — George Brett

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“Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.” — Joe Adcock

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“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.” — Warren Spahn

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“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.” — Gerald R. Ford

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“Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?” — Al Boliska

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“If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.” — Shaquille O'Neal

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“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.” — Jack Nicklaus

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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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“He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.” — Jack Nicklaus

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“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” — Jim Bouton

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“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.” — John Madden

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“I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.” — Joe E. Lewis

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“Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?” — Ben Hogan

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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

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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

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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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