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“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“The essence of sport is courage.”

Author:Thomas McGuane

“My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.”

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Author:Gordon Brown

“The entrance of the woman with equal rights into practical modern life, her new freedom, her finding herself side by side with men in the streets, offices, professions, factories, sports, and now even in political and military life, is one of those dissolutive phenomena in which, in most cases, it is difficult to perceive anything positive. In essence, all this is simply the renunciation of the woman's right to be a woman.”

“You learn the stuff of your life (sports, movies, traveling) ... that's not the essence of your existence, my relationships were always good. Now they have transcended (rise beyond).”

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Author:Christopher Reeve

“The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.”

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Author:Knute Rockne

“Basketball is an endurance sport, and you have to learn to control your breath; that's the essence of yoga, too. So, I consciously began using yoga techniques in my practice and playing. I think yoga helped reduce the number and severity of injuries I suffered. As preventative medicine, it's unequaled.”

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Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.”

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Author:Roger Bannister

“War, we have come to believe, is a spectator sport. The military and the press have turned war into a vast video arcade game. Its very essence-death-is hidden from public view.”

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Book:Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America

Source: Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America

“You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park”

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Author:Andy Roddick