- Pressure
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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
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
- Dinner
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, around the dinner table my father and I didn't talk sports. We talked business.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in a town of 400 until I was like nine or ten. My dad coached all the sports - he was a gym teacher and health teacher for grades K-12.
- Medical
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- Nov 07, 2020
The world is not kind to whistleblowers - a term of art with particular resonance in football, the most hierarchical and repressive of organized sports, a world of 'systems' and 'programs' and scripted plays, where reading a medical report requires a security clearance, and practice fields are patrolled like Guantanamo Bay.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.
- Red
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I joined the 'Washington Post' sports staff in 1979, Red's Runyonesque notion of sports writing was obsolete.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sports journalism is in the midst of an identity crisis so profound that we no longer know whether we're made up of one word or two.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love sports. So if I was like a sports anchor or something like that. I would love to do that.
- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
- Confident
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- Nov 07, 2020
My sisters were very successful and confident. It was, 'Oh, you are Pippa's brother! Are you Catherine's brother?' And so I was automatically put into the top sports teams and academic sets.
- Beside
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- Nov 07, 2020
I personally am not a shorts-wearing guy. That goes for any form of shorts, beside sports shorts, that I have to wear.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020