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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
- Nov 07, 2020
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
- Hardest Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a very competitive thing, pro sports. The hardest thing in pro sports is staying up there.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.
- Birthday Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me the more important thing is fighting. You know, training, fighting. The sports side. I didn't choose my media life.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.
- Thinking
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- Nov 07, 2020
You look at the sports pages and you'd often be forgiven for thinking women didn't do sport.
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is always claiming East, and Los Angeles is always claiming West. It's in everything: acting, hip-hop, sports. But I love it. That rivalry makes you work harder.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1967, London Weekend Television asked me to head up their sports coverage. I got to work with guys like Brian Moore and Dickie Davies. We were the first ones to come up with the idea of the pundits' panel. Although, since I was one of the pundits, it's debatable how good an idea that was.
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- Nov 07, 2020