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SPORTS QUOTES
Rodeoing is about the only sport you can't fix. You'd have to talk to the bulls and the horses, and they wouldn't understand you.
--Bill Linderman
God does not charge time spent fishing against a man’s allotted life span.
--American Indian Proverb
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In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.
--Russell Baker
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Baseball: Almost the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated.
--Mark Beltaire
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Academy: A modern school where football is taught.
--Ambrose Bierce
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We have not made cricket and football [soccer] professional because of any astonishing avarice or new vulgarity. We have made them professional because we would have them perfect. We have dedicated men to them as to some god of inhuman excellence. We care more for football than for the fun of playing football.
--G.K. Chesterton
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So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games? But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by the rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician.
--Epictetus
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I played golf some time ago with John D. Rockefeller. The other day, I played with Charles M. Schwab.... Both played exactly the same. Neither overreached [or] tried to do more than he was capable of.... Most golfers, like most businessmen, swat the ball with all their might and trust more or less to luck as to the result.... Now, both Rockefeller and Schwab hit a straight ball nine times out of ten. In fact, in the first 17 holes I played with Schwab, he didn’t foozle a single shot. I could drive a ball 25 to 50 yards further than he, but quite often it flew wild. The result was that Schwab licked me decisively.
--B.C. Forbes
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He who spends all his life in sport is like one who hears nothing but fringes and eats nothing but sauces.
--Richard Fuller
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Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter’s honor.
--Ernest Hemingway
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Father always emphasized being a good sportsman. Lose as if you like it, and win as if you were used to it.
--Thomas Hitchcock
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Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the Circus games.
--Juvenal
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Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get our exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.
--John F. Kennedy
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We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it.
--John F. Kennedy
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Ideally, the umpire should have the integrity of a Supreme Court justice, the physical agility of an acrobat, the endurance of Job and the imperturbability of Buddha.
--Time Magazine
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When he says ""Sit down!"" I don’t even look for a chair.
--Player (about Vince Lombardi)
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I don’t think I can take seriously any game that takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
--Tom Stoppard
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Most sorts of diversion in men, children and other animals are an imitation of fighting.
-- Jonathan Swift
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