S Quotes
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“Sports that are continuous and never stop don't give us the opportunity to segment our messages.”
“Sports was a great equalizer. It didn't have color. It didn't matter whether you were rich or poor, black or white. It really shaped me in many ways to be able to deal with a lot of different personalities and different cultures. Sports were the common thread.”
“Sports was my entire life as long as I can remember.”
“Sports will always be important in global culture, and so fashion, as a reflection of cultural trends, will always incorporate influences from sports.”
“Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.”
“Sports, entertainment and aviation are three of the most exciting professions in the world; you are dealing with the same magnitude.”
“Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.”
“Sports, politics, and religion are the three passions of the badly educated.”
Source: In the Heart of the Heart of the Country: And Other Stories
“Sportsbook logos are emblazoned everywhere, from billboards to trash cans to sports arenas. At Fenway Park, a half mile from PHAI’s office, the historic Green Monster left field wall is adorned with a BetMGM logo, and DraftKings and Fanatics logos are visible from home plate. These ads ensure that branding for all three companies is visible throughout the game, not just during the commercial breaks. Sports media companies, too, are invariably sponsored by sportsbooks, if they do not have a sportsbook of their own, with gambling content integrated into news and analysis. Ads are just as easy to find online, with 2.1 million digital advertising units in 2023, according to the AGA. Many of these are on social media, where for some people gambling is inescapable. Numerous bettors described feeds inundated with gambling influencers, both paid advertisements and so-called gambling influencers touting their expert picks and big parlay wins. The algorithm is relentless, picking up on the fact that someone is interested in betting content and serving them a steady diet of it. This situation is especially challenging if someone wants to take a break from gambling, as it can prove difficult to reprogram the algorithm entirely.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Sportsbooks are doing much more than siphoning money that would have already been spent on betting. They are inculcating sports betting among people who never would have bet otherwise, creating new generations of gamblers.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Sportsbooks’ current business model relies on a small percentage of bettors losing a lot of money, and their bottom line would be in grave danger if these RG [Responsible Gaming] tools were in wider use. Not surprisingly, most of these tools are entirely optional, and available data indicates extremely low uptake rates. In its home state of Massachusetts, DraftKings reported 0.1 percent of players set a time limit for app use, 0.13 percent set a spending limit, 1.4 percent had used a “cool-off” period, and a whopping 2.3 percent had set a deposit limit. As former problem gambler and longtime marketing professional Jamie Salsburg explained, the messaging around RG is “broken” and is not designed in such a way to effectively reach the people who most need to use RG tools. The messaging is not the only thing that is broken. Optional tools rely on a moment of clarity from someone who might already be chasing their losses. These tools are, fundamentally, the wrong way to protect players.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“Sportsbooks should do more because they can do more. Instead of simply promoting responsible gambling by individuals, they should practice the responsible provision of gambling.”
Source: Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
“SportsCenter? You watch it and I didn't miss one thing. Chris Berman, they give you the whole rundown. I'm like wow. And I go in there and I walk in the next day, I know everything. They'll be like, "Oh did you see that?" I'd be like "Yeah I did," but it didn't take five hours.”
“Sportsman's Hall offered four sporting events: rat killing by a weasel, rat killing by a dog, rat killing by a man, and dogfighting.”
Source: King of the Jews
“Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.”
“Sportsmanship is making sure you have respect for the guy you're playing across from.”
“Sportsmanship is not how you play when you're winning, it's how you behave when you're not.”
“Sportsmanship is that quality of honor that desires always to be courteous, fair, and respectful, and it is interpreted in the conduct of players, spectators, coaches, and school authorities.”
“Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.”
“Sportsmanship to me is going out and playing as hard as you can within the rules.”
“Sportsmanship turns competition into connection, and rivalry into mutual respect.”
“Sportsmanship, next to the Church, is the greatest teacher of morals.”
“Sportsmanship... what a load of crap, don't preach your morality to me. Steve Austin doesn't have any mercy... you want mercy? Take your *ss to church!”
“Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.”
“Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks”
Source: The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time
“Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal.”
“Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.”
“Sportswriters have changed more than sportswriting.”
“Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.”
“Spotify has paid more than two billion dollars to labels, publishers and collecting societies for distribution to songwriters and recording artists.”
“Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.”
“Spotlights appeared by the dozen, like the bullets of heaven’s gun, and anyone caught running through one of them didn't run for long.”
Source: Hopebreaker
“Spots are on the surface of the solar body where they are produced and also dissolved, some in shorter and others in longer periods. They are carried around the Sun; an important occurrence in itself.”
“spots baseball”
“Spots can be any shape that you want, but a leopard will still have spots regardless of shape.”
“Spotted Park Bench
I am a park bench.
Ordinary words cannot
express my thoughts on birds.”
Source: If You Were a Chocolate Mustache
“Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.”
“Spousal violence is a rising problem in the United States. Turn on a true crime television program. You’re pretty much guaranteed to see the program is about a woman who has been murdered, and the woman is almost always murdered by her boyfriend/husband/partner, etc. Are we now consuming this heinous endemic as pop culture and entertainment?
Shenita Etwaroo”
“Spouses and lovers may come and go, but our children are our children forever.”
Source: Sacrifices Beyond Kingdoms: A Provocative Romance Torn Between Continents and Cultures
“Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.”
“Spouses have each other, and even when one eventually dies, they have memories of a time when they existed before that other person and can more readily imagine a life without them. Likewise, parents may have other children to be concerned with--a future to protect for them. To lose a sibling is to lose the one person with whom one shares a lifelong bond that is meant to continue on into the future.”
Source: Where Things Come Back
“Spouses often point out each other's deficiencies. Instead, we should be each other's motivator. My husband touches my spirit, and I try my best to motivate him, too.”
“Spouses should spend at least one full hour each day talking together about subjects that have nothing to do with their work or business. Children need at least ten minutes of face-to-face contact with their parents each day.”
“Spouting quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara, which are as germane to our highly technological, computerized, cybernetic, nuclearpowered, mass media society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.”
“Spočítala jsem to. Jsem si na osmdesát tři procent jistá, že můj výpočet je na stoprocent správný.”
“Społeczeństwa indywidualityczne minimalizują smutek, nakłaniając jednostki do rozwiązywania swoich problemów. Te zaś, w których ważna jest hierarchia, często przyznają prawo do "złości" ludziom na szczycie hierarchii, posługując się biernością smutku, by trzymać w ryzach ludzi z dołu drabiny społecznej (Stearns, 1988).”
“Społeczeństwo to system, a firma to część tego systemu. Wychodzenie poza normy w nim obowiązujące musi się wywiązać z pewnymi sankcjami, dzieciaku - odpowiada spokojnie na pytanie, ale i tak czuję płynącą z jego ust pogadankę.”
“Sprache in all ihren Facetten - ihr Lexikon, ihre Wortarten, ihre Zeitformen - ist für Menschen wie Wasser für Fische. Der Stoff unseres Denkens und Lebens, der uns formt und prägt, ohne dass wir uns seiner in Gänze bewusst wären. Wenn ich dieses Bewusstsein herstelle, wenn ich die Grenzen meiner eigenen Wahrnehmung spüre, dann löst das Demut in mir aus. Demut vor der Welt, die ich nur aus meinem eingeschränkten Blinkwinkel betrachte. Ich bin dafür dankbar für das Bewusstsein um die Existenz dieser Grenzen - ich hoffe sie bewahren mich davor, mit unwandelbaren Prämissen und Grundannahmen durch die Welt zu gehen. Das Bewusstsein für unsere Grenzen relativiert die Dinge, die wir ignorant voraussetzen. Die Dinge, die wir als universal postulieren - definieren sie doch nichts mehr als die Grenzen unseres Horizonts.”
Source: Sprache und Sein
“Sprache ist das leichteste Gepäck, und eine schwere Last, wenn man in die Fremde
kommt, und mitnehmen kann man fast immer nur, was man im Kopf und im Herzen
hat: die Mythen und Märchen, die Erinnerungen, eigene und die Erinnerungen
anderer, mit denen man die Sprache gemeinsam hat. Es ist ja kein Zufall, dass jede
Unterdrückung mit der Unterdrückung der Sprache anfängt, und damit auch der
Unterdrückung der Literatur, wenn man unter Literatur nicht ausschließlich das
Geschriebene versteht.”
“Sprache ist kein starres Konstrukt, sondern geht immer mit der Zeit.”
Source: War das jetzt rassistisch?: 22 Anti-Rassismus-Tipps für den Alltag