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I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.
Author: John Kruk
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You mean in the state?
(when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this season)
Author: Abe Lemons
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Competitions are for horse, not artist.
Author: Bela Bartok
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It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
Author: Queen Elizabeth
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Author: Yogi Berra
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My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.".
Author: Carl Lewis
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Raise the urinals.
(on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)
Author: Darrel Chaney
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Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean.
(on sportswriters)
Author: Pedro Guerrero
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I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.
Author: College Senior
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It's basically the same, just darker.
(on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)
Author: Alan Kulwicki
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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.
Author: Hank Aaron
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I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner)
Author: Eddie Eichorn
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Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.
Author: George Carlin
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You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Author: Bobby Knight
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I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot.
(on his decision not to vote)
Author: Lincoln Kennedy
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Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.
Author: Harry Carpenter
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He wants Texas back.
(when asked what terms Mexican-born pitching sensation Fernando Valenzuela might settle for in his upcoming contract negotiations)
Author: Tommy Lasorda
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They can't fire me because my family buys too many tickets.
Author: Lavell Edwards
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I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I Love to play.
Author: Boris Becker
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Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Author: Joe Adcock
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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Author: Michael Jordan
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It wasn't as easy as you think. It's hard to stay awake that long.
(after his team had defeated Whitman 70-30)
Author: Hugh Campbell
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It is alright to be disappointed, but a winner can never allow himself to be discouraged.
Author: D.a. Chapple
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Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.
Author: Johnny Bench
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I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result.
Author: Michael Jordan
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The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play.
Author: Reggie Jackson
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We train by a parkway, which runs beside a river. If we had a lonely end, he either would be hit by a car or drown.
(on why he doesn't use a lonely end)
Author: Jim Camp
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Morcelli has four fastest 1500-metre times ever. And all those times are at 1500 metres.
Author: David Coleman
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There goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class.
Author: David Coleman
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Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago...
Author: David Coleman
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Her time is about 4.33, which she's capable of.
Author: David Coleman
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The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.
Author: O.j. Simpson
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It's almost like we have ESPN.
(on how well he and James Worthy work together)
Author: Magic Johnson
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I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.
Author: Martina Hingis
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I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.
(on being a role model)
Author: Andre Dawson
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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.
Author: Charles Barkley
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These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Author: Charles Barkley
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The game was closer than the score indicated.
(after a 1-0 game)
Author: Dizzy Dean
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I've won at every level, except college and pro.
Author: Shaquille O'neal
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The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Author: Hank Aaron
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They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)
Author: Greg Buttle
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Well, either side could win it, or it could be a draw.
Author: Ron Atkinson
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[He] called me a 'rapist' and a 'recluse'. I'm not a recluse.
Author: Mike Tyson
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Thank God for competition. When our competitors upset our plans or outdo our designs, they open infinite possibilities of our own work to us.
Author: Gil Atkinson
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Author: Harry Caray
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Spencer's running across field calling out, 'come inside me, come inside me.'
Author: Sky
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I can tell you it's a magnificent sensation when the gap opens up like that and you just burst right through.
Author: Sky
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Darryl Gibson has been quite magnificent coming inside Andrew Mehrtens, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of the same today.
Author: Sky
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There's nothing that a tight forward likes more than a loosie right up his backside
Author: Sky
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Everybody knows that I have been pumping Martin Leslie for a couple of seasons now.
Author: Sky
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