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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

William Shakespeare
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Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.

Tommy Lasorda
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Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships. -Michael Jordan
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Babe Ruth
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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Erma Bombeck
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. -John Leonard
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I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.

Mia Hamm
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It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

John Wooden
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I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. -Rogers Hornsby
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It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.

Hank Aaron
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The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.

Avery Brundage
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Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented. -Arnold Palmer
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Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

Pierre De Coubertin
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Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.

Bill Klem
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One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot, the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. -Peter Marshall
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You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.

Brian Williams
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You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Bill Lee
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The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature. -Thorstein Veblen
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Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

Bob Uecker
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A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.

Andrew H. Malcolm
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I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA. -Shaquille O'neal
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It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.

William Sloan Coffin
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Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.

Willie Mays
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The chances are fifty-sixty. -Matti Nykänen
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It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.

Larry Bird
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A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.

Christy Mathewson
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I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies. -Anna Kournikova
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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Chris Evert
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There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

Joaquin Andujar
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Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that. -Andre Segovia
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