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“Sports is a bloodless rehearsal of confrontation, and everyone shakes hands or high fives or fist bumps at the end to show that everything is okay.”

Sports Okay Confrontation

Author:John Hodgman

“Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.”

Important Motivational Success Sports Roles Achieve Models Overcoming Difficulty Perseverance Metaphor Athlete Obstacles Persistence Role Models Odds Inspirational Sports Great Inspirational Sports

Author:Bill Bradley

“Sports is a moral undertaking because it requires of participants, and it schools spectators in the appreciation of, noble things - courage, grace under pressure, sportsmanship.”

School Sports Moral Grace Pressure Appreciation Noble Inspirational Sports Spectators Participants Undertakings Under Pressure Sportsmanship Grace Under Pressure

Author:George Will

Source: With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002

“Sports is a perfect activity in which to see streaks and cycles, organizational and otherwise, in action - and to watch confidence build or erode. There are repeated episodes of performance with similar rules and clear winners or losers. I added team sports to my studies of business because there are excellent parallels to work groups in the performance of sports teams and also excellent parallels to larger, more complex businesses or organizations in the strategy, structure, and culture surrounding any particular team.”

Action Culture Sports Perfect Study Team Strategy Winner Excellent Loser Organizational

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“Sports is a way of entertainment, to people who are in different backgrounds, and for people who dedicated their lives to achieve the best in sports.”

People Way Different Sports Achieve Entertainment Backgrounds Dedicated Different Backgrounds

Author:Emerson Fittipaldi

“Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.”

World Heart Might Sports Balls Size Champion Shrinks Nadal

Author:Mats Wilander

“Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.”

People Jobs Games Sports Loses Intriguing

Author:Gay Talese

“Sports is all about money.”

Sports

Author:Lynn Samuels

“Sports is equivalent important in life along with education and healthy diet to have peaceful mindset and a positive approach towards life.”

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Author:Bhawna Dehariya

“Sports is good for health and for children, it gives them manhood, courage, teaches them team work and coordination. Sports is something that is so crucial, it makes everything.”

Giving Children Sports Teach Team Manhood

Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“Sports is human life in microcosm.”

Humans Sports Human Life Motivational Sports Homecoming Microcosm

Author:Howard Cosell

Source: COSELL

“sports is like a meditation - timeless focused concentrated action. No manipulation...but pure focus, pure action.”

Life Action Sports Focus Meditation

Author:Ravindra Shukla

“Sports is like a war without the killing.”

War Sports Killing

Author:Ted Turner

“Sports is like literature. People watch it and if it's beautiful and it's non-violent, whatever messages that you see, people can read into it and say, "Wow! You know what? Whatever they're doing over there, it's extraordinary, and maybe that culture is superior to ours in certain ways."”

People Ifs Knows Way Beautiful Certain Culture Literature Sports Watches Messages Extraordinary Violent Superiors Wow Non Violent

Author:Gabe Polsky

“Sports is like rock 'n' roll. Both are dominant cultural forces, both speak an international language, and both are all about emotions.”

Speak Language Force Sports Emotion Rocks International Rock N Roll Dominant International Language

Author:Phil Knight

“Sports is so hard for me to wrap my head around. I never played any sports, I don't watch any sports, I hardly know the rules to any sporting event. Really, I'm borderline mentally damaged when it comes to sports.”

Knows Hard Sports Watches Events Wraps Borderline Sporting Events

Author:Scott Clifton

“Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.”

Knows Matter Time Sports Entertainment

Author:Neil Simon

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”

Humans Sports Human Life Department Toys

Author:Howard Cosell

“Sports is the toy department of life.”

Sports Department Toys

Author:George Will

“Sports is the very fiber of all we stand for. It keeps our spirits alive.”

Spirit Sports Alive Fiber

Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”

War Sex Sports Pornography Analogy

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex. We get to exercise some ancient, ancient drives.”

War Inspiration Motivation Sex Sports Exercise Ancient Pornography

Author:Jonathan Haidt

“Sports is, somehow, a religion.”

Sports

Author:Michael Novak

“Sports isn't just a part of life. It's not life itself.”

Sports Parts Of Life

Author:Stedman Graham

“Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.”

Stills Happens Language Sports Stage Developing Excellent Lasting Avoiding Fright Foreign Language Stage Fright Lasting Friendship

Author:Tim Ferriss

“Sports keep you feeling cheerful, feeling spirited, it's a kind of a thriving feeling.”

Kind Feelings Sports Cheerful Spirited

Author:Rajashree Choudhury

“Sports kept me off the streets. It kept me from getting into what was going on, the bad stuff.”

Stuff Sports Streets Bad Stuff

Author:Michael Vick

“Sports like baseball or baseball are easy to dramatise, because all of them have a pause and that helps with the tension. Football never stops. I'm a football fan. I believe in the beauty of the game.”

Believe Helping Games I Believe Easy Sports Fans Football Baseball I Believe In Tension Pauses Football Fan

Author:Carlos Cuaron

“Sports like baseball, basketball, and hockey develop muscles. That's why Americans have the strongest eyes in the world.”

World Eye Sports Basketball Baseball Muscles Strongest Hockey

Author:Robert Orben

“Sports — like soccer, athletics and boxing — bring out the women in men. Their time of productivity is very limited.”

Men Sports Women Femininity

Author:Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu

“Sports must become an indispensable and inseparable part of our social life. Competitiveness is just a by-product.”

Social Sports Products India Indispensable Inseparable Social Life Competitiveness

Author:Narendra Modi

“Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.”

Self Dream Kids Sports Achieve Confidence Strive Self Confidence Rings Ease Nurture Sublime Masculine Skinny Boxers

Author:Armstrong Williams

“Sports plays a societal role in engendering jingoist and chauvinist attitudes. They're designed to organize a community to be committed to their gladiators.”

Play Sports Peace Community Attitude Roles Committed Organize

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Sports plays an interesting role in society. The greatest sportsmen have platforms to speak out on issues and really affect how the public thinks about some very critical issues facing the world.”

Thinking World Speak Sports Interesting

Author:Hakeem Olajuwon

“Sports, Politics and Technology. All the same game.”

Culture Games Politics Sports Technology News Newspapers Game Reporting

Author:George Shirk

Source: Ookpik

“Sports programs are an important part of young people’s lives but should never over-shadow the true purpose of high school and that is to earn a diploma. So often today sports have become more important than an education. This must be remedied because the true focus must always be toward the student’s academic development.”

Inspirational Motivational Success Winning Football Coaching Team Direction

Author:George M. Gilbert

Source: Team Of One: We Believe

“Sports provide girls with the opportunity to develop a better relationship with their bodies. They can be aggressive on the court, be strong and still be feminine.”

Stills Body Girl Opportunity Strong Sports Leadership Court Feminine Aggressive

Author:Gabrielle Reece

“Sports remain a great metaphor for life's more difficult lessons. It was through athletics that many of us first came to understand that fear can be tamed; that on a team the whole is more than the sum of its parts; and that the ability to be heroic lies, to a surprising degree, within.”

Author:Susan Casey

“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care so intense, so rare, and so fleeting that we associate their experience with experience otherwise described as religious or we say the sports experience must be the tattered remnant of an experience which was once described, when first felt, as religious.”

Religion Sports

Author:A. Bartlett Giamatti

Source: Take Time for Paradise: Americans and Their Games

“Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.”

Knows Mean Sports Sections Sticky Buns

Author:Margaret Stohl

“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.”

Inspirational Sports Example Excellence Athlete Motivational Sports Providing Inspirational Sports Vivid Athletic Motivational Inspirational Sports Athletic Inspirational

Author:George Will

Source: Bunts

“Sports taught me how to compete on the court, and taught me how to compete in life. Sports and life run parallel with one another.”

Running Sports Taught Court Parallels

Author:Ken Carter

“Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.”

I Can Motivation Next Sports Mistake Minutes Taught Brilliant Let It Go Softball One Minute

Author:Lynn Sherr

“Sports teach us how to persevere. How to deal with adversity. How to become part of a single heartbeat that defines a team. Sports teach lessons in leadership, respect, and courage.”

Leadership Courage Team Respect Adversity Persevere Sport

Author:Gary Mack

Source: Mind Gym: An Athlete's Guide to Inner Excellence

“Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.”

Truth Sports Honesty Fitness Athletics

Author:Corey Irwin

“Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.”

Sports Teach Basketball Injury Slow Down

Author:Yao Ming

“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”

Knows Feels Play Character Reality Success Winning Sports Loses Teach Inspirational Sports Winning And Losing

Author:Billie Jean King

“Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.”

Important Fighting Sports Teach Growing Up Growing Lessons Loyalty Closest Warfare Important Lessons

Author:Tinker Hatfield

“Sports teams, people who follow sports teams, religion, churches, work - any company, I find that people just generally have a need to belong to something larger than themselves.”

People Needs Sports Church Company Team Sports Team

Author:Sean Durkin

“Sports test character as much as skill. Discipline, teamwork, and resilience often matter more than trophies or accolades. Every practice, every loss, and every victory shapes not just the athlete, but the person they become off the field.”

Character Sports Growth Leadership Discipline Competition Perseverance Resilience Teamwork Dedication

Author:Shivanshu K. Srivastava

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