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- Nov 07, 2020
Sports Quotes
More than a game to the people who live it.
A few of these are candid about the professional distance coaches and players keep, while others celebrate becoming attached to a new sports city. For a laugh in between games, check our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in Birmingham I used to go to a place called Redwood Field. I used to get there for a two o'clock game. Where can you make this kind of money playing sports? It was just a pleasure to go out and enjoy myself and get paid for it.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had talked for years about doing a restaurant with Rocky Dudum, who's been my friend since I first came to San Francisco. Then Rocky's son, Jeff, said he wanted to design it, so he traveled around the country to sports restaurants like Mickey Mantle's and Michael Jordan's, and he came up with a great concept.
- Golf
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- Nov 07, 2020
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
- Conceive
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, for all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the great national event.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an automotive fan. I love motor sports, and I love to watch motor sports. I love it all.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think sports are a wonderful diversion. People can relate to sports very easily. It's a quick study.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two major things that changed the makeup of all professional sports are money generated by television and courts that players went to in order to win their freedom as free agents.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020