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Tag: Sports

3 December 2020 Chad Harbach

In fact, there’s a lot to legitimately hate about pro sports and the way they are conducted.

3 December 2020 Ted Turner

I’ve had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.

3 December 2020 Shane Warne

We’ve just got to be careful – with all sports, let alone cricket – I think there’s so much emphasis on doing the right thing all the time, but I think the public want to be entertained when they come to watch sport.

3 December 2020 Greg Norman

What’s a good tournament for him? Winning it. He’s good enough.

3 December 2020 Kathy Ireland

I know my strengths. Painfully aware of the weaknesses. There’s many. I love sports. So working towards a common goal, that’s exciting to me.

3 December 2020 Joel Osteen

I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.

3 December 2020 Joe Montana

In sports… you play from the time you’re eight years old, and then you’re done forever.

3 December 2020 Shaquille O'Neal

I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.

3 December 2020 John Leonard

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

3 December 2020 Arthur Ashe

There is a syndrome in sports called ‘paralysis by analysis.’

3 December 2020 Jackie Joyner-Kersee

When I was in elementary school, we weren’t allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.

3 December 2020 John Hodgman

As you know, the thing that I know the least about is the topic of sports.

3 December 2020 Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

3 December 2020 Bernard Williams

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

3 December 2020 Nick Price

He’s got everything. He’ not a great player yet because he hasn’t won any major championships, but it’s a matter of time. He’s an outstanding talent. I didn’t realize how tall he is.

3 December 2020 Jasmine Tookes

I did a shoot for ‘Sports Illustrated,’ and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of ‘Playboy’ was coming out. It was hilarious as well as embarrassing.

3 December 2020 Dietrich Mateschitz

There are almost no sports within which mortal accidents are not a reality.

3 December 2020 Thierry Henry

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

3 December 2020 Shimon Peres

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.

3 December 2020 Billie Joe Armstrong

The things that people do now in sports, you can’t even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings can do in the highest level is amazing.

3 December 2020 Olivia Munn

A geek isn’t the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you’re passionate about something.

3 December 2020 John McEnroe

I’ll let the racket do the talking.

3 December 2020 Claudio Reyna

EA SPORTS has a strong partnership with adidas and through this relationship they approached adidas about using some of their top players from around the world.

3 December 2020 Jackie Chan

You cannot mix sports with politics.

3 December 2020 A. Bartlett Giamatti

Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

3 December 2020 Billie Jean King

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

3 December 2020 Bob Lemon

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.

3 December 2020 Joe Nichols

I am a sports fanatic and being able to perform at halftime for the fans of the Steelers and the Jets is such a thrill for me.

3 December 2020 Sean Astin

I told another ESPN friend here, I love all sports. I can’t think of any I don’t love. I’ve even come to appreciate cricket. Maybe I could play a sportswriter. I don’t know. Anything in the sports realm is appealing.

3 December 2020 Michael Rapaport

Being No. 1. It’s talked about all of the time in hip-hop. ‘I’m still No. 1! I’m the best! I’m the greatest of all time!’ It’s the same mentality in sports.

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