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Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Author: Juan Antonio Samaranch
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Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Author: Mike Singletary
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If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Author: Sam Snead
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There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Author: Charles Spalding
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Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.
Author: Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower
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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.
Author: Lee Trevino
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Author: Bill Veeck
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Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Author: Jesse Ventura
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The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Author: Bob Verdi
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Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
Author: William A. Ward
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Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.
Author: Wes Westrum
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Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes.
Author: Bob Wilkerson
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Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.
Author: Bill Russell
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The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
Author: Arie De Geus
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Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.
Author: Edward Hoagland
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The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.
Author: William Van Horne
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The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.
Author: Sadaharu Oh
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Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.
Author: Arthur Collins
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Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.
Author: Joe Garagiola
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Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.
Author: Chuck Hogan
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Author: Roger Kahn
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What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Author: Barry Switzer
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The integrity of the game is everything.
Author: Peter Ueberroth
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I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father
Author: Greg Norman
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The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical
Author: Murray Walker
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There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.
Author: Ken Loeffler
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How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.
Author: Barbara J. Alexander
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To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.
Author: Marguerite Beecher
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Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
Author: Willard Beecher
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Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
Author: Lou Brock
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Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.
Author: Earl Campbell
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Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.
Author: Arthur Hugh Clough
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You get out in front -- you stay out in front.
Author: A. J. Foyt
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Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.
Author: Gladiator's Salute
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You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.
Author: Gordie Howe
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Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.
Author: Harold Brodkey
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
Author: James B. Connant
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The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.
Author: Timothy Gallwey
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The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Author: Peggy Fleming
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Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Author: Bern Williams
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Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Author: Norman Augustine
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Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Author: Jim Bouton
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Nobody roots for Goliath.
Author: Wilt Chamberlain
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I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Author: Tom Clark
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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.
Author: Nick Faldo
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'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parachute, a Met banner held high. His goal was to spur our home team to success, Burst Beantown's balloon claiming Sox were the best.
Author: Phyllis Orlikoff Flug
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Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
Author: William James
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Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?
Author: Joe Kapp
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