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3 December 2020 Charley Lau

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.

3 December 2020 Yogi Berra

You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

3 December 2020 Nick Price

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.

3 December 2020 George Brett

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.

3 December 2020 Jason Statham

I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.

3 December 2020 Ron Blomberg

Competing in sports has taught me that if I’m not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will.

3 December 2020 Martin Mull

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.

3 December 2020 Kirsty Gallacher

I come from a sports family and my husband is a rugby player.

3 December 2020 Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

3 December 2020 Shigeru Miyamoto

I never really participated in specific sports or anything, but once I hit 40, I started to get a little bit more active and began swimming more.

3 December 2020 Laura Hillenbrand

Louie and Seabiscuit were both Californians and both on the sports pages in the 1930s. I was fascinated. When I learned about his World War II experiences, I thought, ‘If this guy is still alive, I want to meet him.’

3 December 2020 Lesley Visser

Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.

3 December 2020 Sheryl Swoopes

As a result of Title IX, and a new generation of parents who want their daughters to have the opportunities they never had, women’s sports have arrived.

3 December 2020 Nathan Fillion

I got amazing training both with Theatre Sports… back in Edmonton, Alberta – I can’t give those people enough credit – and the daytime drama I did. Incredible training, both of them.

3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes.

3 December 2020 Mario Lopez

There’s three things men always talk about – women, sports, and cars.

3 December 2020 Sergei Bubka

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

3 December 2020 Mike Schmidt

They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.

3 December 2020 David Duval

We might not make what athletes in other sports make, but we have greater longevity and we do have certain freedoms to do things they can’t do. Like stay home one week and play the next week.

3 December 2020 Heidi Klum

The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it’s Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria’s Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.

3 December 2020 Hugo Black

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

3 December 2020 Jack Kevorkian

The American people are sheep. They’re comfortable, rich, working. It’s like the Romans, they’re happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.

3 December 2020 Wilt Chamberlain

Nobody roots for Goliath.

3 December 2020 Josh Hutcherson

I play sports.

3 December 2020 Peter Ueberroth

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

3 December 2020 Julius Erving

I liked the game, I enjoyed the game, and the game fed me enough, and gave me enough rewards to reinforce that this is something that I should spend time doing, and that I could possibly make a priority in my life, versus other sports.

3 December 2020 Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.

3 December 2020 Bobby Orr

Growing up, if I hadn’t had sports, I don’t know where I’d be. God only knows what street corners I’d have been standing on and God only knows what I’d have been doing, but instead I played hockey and went to school and stayed out of trouble.

3 December 2020 Neil Peart

I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn’t skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years.

3 December 2020 Drew Carey

But sports photography isn’t something you just pick up overnight. You can’t do it once a year for fun and expect to do a good job. And I take pride in what I do.

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