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Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Author: Greg Lemond
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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.
Author: Al Mcguire
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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.
Author: Jack Nicklaus
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Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Author: Joyce Carol Oates
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I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing.
Author: Corey Pavin
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The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, "There's a star." The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, "Superstar." I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.
Author: Gary Player
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Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
Author: Nick Price
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It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Author: Pete Rose
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Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
Author: John Updike
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When Tiger was 6 months old, he would sit in our garage, watching me hit balls into a net. He had been assimilating his golf swing. When he got out of the high chair, he had a golf swing.
Author: Earl Woods
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My potential speaks for itself.
(who finished the year ranked 111 in 1998.)
Author: Liliah Osterloh
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I'll be back.
(five days after being pummeled in his fight with Mike Tyson.)
Author: Peter Mcneeley
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One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?
(when asked if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)
Author: Darrell Royal
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I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time.
(after the team's co-captain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)
Author: Mike Mccormack
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Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.
Author: John Madden
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Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
Author: Janet Guthrie
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How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.
Author: Lou Holtz
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As I remember it, the bases were loaded.
(asked his reaction to hitting a grand slam)
Author: Garry Maddox
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Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious
Author: Alan Minter
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I'm a golfer -- not an athlete.
Author: Lee Westwood
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One player was lost because he broke his nose. How do you go about getting a nose in condition for football?
(asking if the abnormal number of Longhorn injuries this season resulted from poor physical conditioning)
Author: Darrell Royal
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World trade means competition from anywhere; advancing technology encourages cross-industry competition. Consequently, strategic planning must consider who our future competitors will be, not only who is here today.
Author: Eric Allison
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I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.
Author: Steve Cauthen
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They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now.
Author: Captain James
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Use it or lose it.
Author: Jimmy Connors
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The only one who can beat me is me.
Author: Michael Johnson
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I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment…. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
Author: Lynn Jennings
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Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Author: Haywood Hale Broun
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New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Author: Jimmy Carter
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A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Author: Wayne Gretzky
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Author: Billie Jean King
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
Author: Peter Ueberroth
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Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Author: Ted Williams
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I don't know if I even have an aura, man. I just try to win.
Author: Tiger Woods
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Ninety percent of the game is half mental.
Author: Jim Wohford
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Me and George and Billy are two of a kind.
(on his relationship with George Steinbrenner and Billy Martin)
Author: Mickey Rivers
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I lost it in the sun!
(after fumbling a grounder.)
Author: Billy Loes
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You guys line up alphabetically by height.
(a Florida State football coach)
Author: Bill Peterson
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I don't care what the tape says. I didn't say it.
Author: Ray Malavasi
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I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes first.
Author: George Rogers
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Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)
Author: Leon Wood
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thatll be helpful because we have guys on this club that have trouble reading the nameplate on their locker to find their clothes after a
game
Author: Stu Grimson
Source: A. Stuart Grimson
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It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too.
(after winning the Grand Slam Cup.)
Author: Venus Williams
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Son, looks to me like you're spending too much time on one subject.
(recounting what he told a player who received four F's and one D)
Author: Shelby Metcalf
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I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.
(on the career dedication of her husband, the Miami Dolphins' coach)
Author: Dorothy Shula
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I'm going to send the injured reserve players out for the toss next time.
(after the team's cocaptain, offensive guard Robert Pratt, pulled a hamstring running onto the field for the coin toss against St. Louis)
Author: Mike Mccormack
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I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
Author: Ben Hogan
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Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
Author: William Barclay
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The more I train the more I realize I have more speed in me.
Author: Leroy Burrell
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