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“A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.”

Ifs Has Beens Courses Sports Nfl

Author:Bobby Bowden

“He who gets the best players usually wins.”

Winning Sports Player Nfl Best Players

Author:Bobby Bowden

“All I've done all my life is just tried to better the game for our players and for those people watching.”

People Done Life Is Games Sports Player

Author:Bobby Hull

“I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Made Said Enough Sports Privileged Yogi Deja Vu Commissioners

Author:Bobby Hull

“But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there.”

Thinking Mind Stills Ends Today Winning Sports Thirds Skiing Third Place

Author:Bode Miller

“In some ways, that's the story of my season - when I wasn't making big mistakes, I was winning races and being on the podium. And when I made mistakes I was still fourth or fifth, just off the podium.”

Way Made Stills Stories Bigs Winning Sports Race Mistake Seasons Fourth Fifth Made A Mistake Big Mistake I Made A Mistake Winning The Race

Author:Bode Miller

“My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.”

Years Sports Goal Hurt

Author:Bode Miller

“When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.”

Sports Mistake Easier Skis

Author:Bode Miller

“A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around”

People Thinking Sports My Family Pressure Spending Family And Friends Follow Me

Author:Bonnie Blair

“I'm definitely going to miss hearing the sound of that gun.”

Sports Sound Missing Gun Hearing

Author:Bonnie Blair

“Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought I would accomplish what I have in the sport”

Dream Sports Accomplish Wildest Dreams

Author:Bonnie Blair

“All I can tell you is I played with Johnny Mitchell. Johnny Mitchell was one of the greatest athletic talents I ever played with, but I could never trust him. When the game was on the line and he was supposed to run an out route at 10 yards, he would run an in route at eight and slide to the outside and scream to me that he was open. But it was how he got open that really made me uncomfortable in trusting him.”

Made I Can Running Games Sports Lines Talent Eight Uncomfortable Scream Yards Routes Athletic Slides Never Trust Trusting Him

Author:Boomer Esiason

“And that's why, you know, it's players like Randy Moss that unfortunately put a stain on the entire league.”

Knows Sports Player League Stains Moss Randy

Author:Boomer Esiason

“When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.”

Thinking Made Felt Sports Fields Defense Score Anxious Frustrated Sidelines Peyton

Author:Boomer Esiason

“So this is it. Match point for eternity.”

Sports Eternity Match Point

Author:Boris Becker

“I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.”

People Ifs Knows Years Kind Sports Careers Seasons Monsters Diminish

Author:Brady Anderson

“I know for a stretch, at least nine years, I was one of the best lead-off hitters in baseball”

Knows Years Sports Baseball Nine Nine Years

Author:Brady Anderson

“Julie, Mia and I just met for a couple days, doing some work but really under the guise of having fun. We do events like the Women's Sports Foundation Dinner, where we get to not only do a good thing for the community but we get to hang out with one another again.”

Fun Sports Community Events Couple Mets Foundation Good Things Dinner Having Fun Hanging Out Guise Mia

Author:Brandi Chastain

“So along with that is spending a lot of time with the ball. For me it was, I loved to juggle the ball in my front yard, and I always challenged myself - how many juggles can I get today? I think for players to get better, it's just about spending the time.”

Thinking Today Sports Player Fronts Balls Spending Get Better Yards

Author:Brandi Chastain

“It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.”

People Kind Jobs Sports Difficult Can Do Deals Periods Get Away

Author:Brett Favre

“I'm realistic. And realistically, I'm not that type of player that earns that type of money any more. So I'd be willing to take a little cut to get a couple of extra years.”

Years Littles Sports Cutting Player Willing Type Couple Extras Realistic

Author:Brett Hull

“If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Helping Fall Sports Brain One Day Active Always Working Crosswords Active Minds

Author:Brett Hull

“Kat and I were in our 20s when we won in '88. Our personalities were already established. We were ready to move on to a life of professional skating.”

Moving Sports Ready Personality Skating Ready To Move On

Author:Brian Boitano

“Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Important Kids Asks Language Sports Quality Know How Generations Missing Figures Edges Skating This Generation Figure Skating Compulsory Skater

Author:Brian Boitano

“On the lip of the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to do that. My very first TV special out of the Olympics was on a glacier in Alaska. Right after that one, I went and pitched this idea to skate in three National Parks. Like Voyageurs National Park, because it freezes over and you have these little islands that you can skate around. [The networks] were like, 'Way too expensive.'”

Way Firsts Littles Ideas Wanted Three Sports Special Tvs Lips Islands Parks Expensive Olympics Freeze Alaska Skates Canyons National Parks Glaciers Grand Canyon

Author:Brian Boitano

“Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.”

People Fall Sports Deals Mistake Missing Program Presses Just One Pulling Falling Apart Folds Rip One Mistake

Author:Brian Boitano

“Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that.”

Thinking Littles Bits Sports Natural Ability Little Bit Yeah Progression

Author:Brian Boitano

“I really believe the only thing you can control in those situations is what you do as a player but also how you interact with your teammates, which is critical.”

Believe Sports Situation Player Critical Teammate Things You Can Control

Author:Brian Griese

“I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.”

Said Problem School Lost Sports Process Teacher Nervous Enthusiasm Upset Grades Lazy Flunking

Author:Bruce Jenner

“I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.”

Knows Sports Growing Up Growing Dyslexia

Author:Bruce Jenner

“Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.”

People Sports Exercise Missions Hips Things To Do

Author:Bruce Jenner

“I don't go to clubs and stuff like that, so I don't have to put up with it in there. And normally, because obviously I could hurt somebody, and if I look at it that way, I have to back off.”

Ifs Way Looks Stuff Sports Hurt Clubs Bubba

Author:Bubba Smith

“The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8.”

Sports Grades Ninth Grade

Author:Bubba Smith

“We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.”

Whole Might Guy Sports Talking Months Six Training Seasons Over You Camps Laughed Six Months Bubba Training Camp

Author:Bubba Smith

“We were younger. And it's basically like looking at football classics. You see things that you did, you see things that you could've done better and you think about all the good relationships that you had with the cast.”

Thinking Done Sports Football Casts Good Relationship Bubba

Author:Bubba Smith

“You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.”

Knows Looks Book Different Character Wanted Faces Sports Rooms Saws Ducks Bubba Different Faces Funny Book

Author:Bubba Smith

“And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.”

Believe Looks Running Sports Happened Bases Just One

Author:Carlton Fisk

“I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.”

Thinking Years Remember Guy Sports Numbers Millions Wall Fund Retired Jimmy

Author:Carlton Fisk

“I knew it was gonna go out. It was just a question of it being fair or foul. The wind must have carried it 15 feet toward the foul pole. I just stood there and watched. I didn't want to miss seeing it go out.”

Want Sports Seeing Feet Missing Wind Fairs Foul

Author:Carlton Fisk

“It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Said Remember Certain Games Sports

Author:Carlton Fisk

“When Lee and Jack win, it is good for golf. When I win, it is better.”

Winning Sports Golf

Author:Chi Chi Rodriguez

“The important thing is to get the right players on the team so Mike can be successful.”

Important Sports Successful Player Team Important Things Being Successful Mike

Author:Chuck Daly

“Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.”

Looks Two Guy Sports Groups Championship Terrific Detroit

Author:Chuck Daly

“I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.”

Ifs Needs Ends Shows Next Sports Waiting Term Hurt Chance Week Training Surgery Joints Next Week

Author:Claudio Reyna

“It's the only sport that's played in every country in the world. It's played and watched all over the world, it's the most popular sport in probably 90% of the countries, and then with the World Cup, you have the most viewed tournament of any sport in the world.”

World Country Sports Cups Tournaments World Cup Popular Sports

Author:Claudio Reyna

“The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.”

America Values Sports Situation Player Team League Regions Injured

Author:Claudio Reyna

“I remember Terry being exhausted from his latest Super Bowl win and all the things that go with it.”

Remember Winning Sports Bowls Exhausted Super Bowl

Author:Dan Fouts

“I'm over it. You strive to win a Super Bowl and you do everything you can to get there. But being in the Hall of Fame, you never play for that honor. It's incredible.”

Play Winning Sports Honor Fame Strive Incredibles Over It Halls Bowls Super Bowl Hall Of Fame

Author:Dan Fouts

“People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.”

People Way Made Play Running Today Young Asks Sports Wide Ask Me Quarterback Receiver Running Back Wide Receiver

Author:Dan Fouts

“I think I have a passion for playing the game. I love to play, and I want to play at a high level. You have to do the right things in order to continue at that level.”

Thinking Want Play Order Passion Games Sports Levels Right Thing High Level

Author:Dan Marino

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