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“Receiving the Newcombe Medal for a third year in a row is an amazing honour. The Newcombe Medal is a great occasion for the Australian tennis community to come together and celebrate our sport, recognise people's achievements and contributions to Australian tennis.”

People Years Together Sports Community Achievement Thirds Celebrate Occasions Tennis Contribution Honour Receiving Medal Australian Recognise

Author:Samantha Stosur

“It was probably right after I made my comeback - after retiring post-2008 Olympics - when I finally felt more at ease with my body. Being away from the sport helped put things in perspective.”

Made Body Felt Sports Perspective Posts Ease Retiring Olympics Comeback

Author:Alicia Sacramone

“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.”

Ifs Has Beens Actors Sports Fans Calling Hollywood Athlete Convinced Could Have Been Sports Fan Pro Athlete

Author:Jamie Foxx

“I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost. I don't really need to do that, and I thought if I could do something for sport in Scotland, that would be really fulfilling.”

Ifs Needs Firsts Helping Feelings Would Be Sports Politician If I Could Fulfilling Scotland

Author:Gordon Strachan

“If I'm in a slump, I ask myself for advice.”

Ifs Asks Sports Advice Slumps

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.”

World Want States Sports Natural Levels United United States Player Heard Highest Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Ichiro Suzuki

“For some in Washington, it's become sport to pick on the federal workforce. I think they do so unjustly. The very foundation of a stable America is having a government that functions well. Many countries have dysfunctional governments, because they don't have a good government workforce.”

Thinking Wells Country Government America Sports Picks Function Foundation Stable Workforce

Author:Ken Salazar

“Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water”

Force Sports Process Water Leadership Teacher Students Involved Drink Learning Process Stagnant Stagnant Water

Author:Jean-Baptiste de La Salle

“I'm mentally getting myself ready to talk about it all year long because I know it's going to come. My main focus is not to really concentrate on that... So many things have to line up, to be healthy and consistent for so many games, to get to that point. I know as we get closer we're going to talk about it more. But believe me, when it's done, if it gets done, it will be a huge achievement and I'm definitely going to soak it in. But at this time, it's not at the top of my mind.”

Ifs Knows Years Mind Believe Long Done Games Sports Lines Focus Ready Huge Healthy Achievement Training Preparation Consistent Believe In Me Of My Mind

Author:Anthony Calvillo

“It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.”

Ifs Trying Done Play Sports Chance Ready Training Expectations Preparation Frustrating Disappointing Playoffs

Author:Sidney Crosby

“You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.”

Thinking Mind Play Moments Used Games Sports Ready Training Preparation Pitcher Ballparks

Author:Hank Aaron

“On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”

Has Beens Ends Able Sports Fields Racism Giants Bus

Author:Hank Aaron

“It is fun to be outside; it's good to move your body and there is just a joy in sports and athletics.”

Body Moving Joy Fun Sports Health Buddhism Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is a good idea to become involved with sports and athletics. It makes you strong. You need to be strong to deal with this world and the powers and forces that block enlightenment.”

World Needs Ideas Strong Force Sports Deals This World Health Buddhism Involved Enlightenment Block Good Ideas Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body.”

Needs Body Moving Spirit Sports Practice Path Meditation Health Buddhism Your Body Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I recommend for everyone the study of some type of sports or athletics, particularly martial arts. Always check with your doctor first, naturally.”

Firsts Art Sports Study Health Buddhism Type Doctors Checks Martial Arts Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”

Mind Kind Matter Body Sports Views Health Buddhism Shapes No Matter What Point Of View Your Body Athletics Disharmony

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.”

Ifs Mind Sports Levels Meditation Health Buddhism Higher Mindfulness Tools Devices Workout Session Athletics Higher Level

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the Zen of sports and athletics, we seek to bring discipline and control into our physical movements, but at the same time to eliminate the self that gets in the way of perfect play.”

Way Self Play Sports Perfect Movement Health Buddhism Discipline Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In the West, we think of sports and athletics as individual achievement, the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat; it all revolves around the ego. This has nothing to do with the Zen of sports and athletics.”

Thinking Individual Sports Health Buddhism Victory Ego Achievement West Defeat Agony Thrill Athletics Individual Achievement

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you are serious about sports and athletics then you need to begin the discipline of mind. With the power of mind, almost anything can be accomplished.”

Ifs Needs Mind Sports Serious Health Buddhism Discipline Accomplished Athletics Power Of The Mind

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you have the sense of participation in sports or athletics, of being a player, then you are not really into the Zen mind. In Zen mind there is no sense of self in the play.”

Ifs Mind Self Play Sports Player Health Buddhism Participation Sense Of Self Athletics

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Unlock the power of the will. Learn balance and gain the knowledge and wisdom necessary to guide those powers, to succeed in sports and athletics.”

Sports Health Buddhism Balance Succeed Gains Guides Athletics Knowledge And Wisdom

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.”

Wanted Sports Records Albums Theme Collections Singles Back In The Day

Author:Huey Lewis

“In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.”

Years Firsts States Sports Pieces Four Land My Family Western Four Years County Montana

Author:Huey Lewis

“I never really was that passionate about playing sports. But when I was at this Mt. Herman school, I did have the ability to throw the frisbee. So when this sport evolved, it was fun because I was good at it.”

School Fun Sports Ability Passionate Playing Sports Frisbee

Author:Joel Silver

“For a while, I think in 1994, it got to where I didn't want to practice.”

Thinking Want Sports Practice

Author:Payne Stewart

“For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain.”

Hands Would Be Sports Emotional Captains

Author:Payne Stewart

“I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.”

Book Sports Magazines Awful

Author:Payne Stewart

“If somebody asks for my opinion, I tell them my opinion, whether it's what they want to hear or not.”

Ifs Want Asks Sports Opinion

Author:Payne Stewart

“Not that money is a driving force. It's an honor to play for your country.”

Country Play Force Sports Honor Driving Driving Force

Author:Payne Stewart

“I've just become more conscious about how much I do drink and how often I want to have a drink and things like that. I think being conscious of it will help me to control the urges.”

Thinking Want Helping Sports Drink Conscious Help Me Urges

Author:Payne Stewart

“Raymond Floyd. The man knows how to control situations. He was experienced. He didn't let me get overly excited; he kept me in check. It allowed me to free myself up, and I played really well with him.”

Knows Men Wells Sports Situation Know How He Man Let Me Excited Checks

Author:Payne Stewart

“Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport.”

People Way Play Together Culture Sports Enjoy Relax Leisure Another Way Listening To Music Gratification Time To Relax

Author:Pope Francis

“I never thought of what I was doing as a way to sell the NFL. I was making movies about a sport that I loved, about players and coaches that I respected. I wanted to convey my love of the game through film. And most artists convey their love through art. And my art and my love was expressed through film.”

Way Art Wanted Film Artist Games Sports Player Sells Coaches Nfl The Love Of The Game

Author:Steve Sabol

“I didn't grow up a theatre kid, going to theatre camps. I played sports, and that was my main direction. But luckily, I never had to choose between sports and theatre.”

Kids Grows Sports Growing Up Theatre Camps

Author:Aaron Tveit

“Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.”

People World Guy Sports Air Missing Citizens Train Fighter Decent Boxing Capability Handful Respectable Trainers Decent Guys

Author:Alexis Arguello

“Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.”

People Mind Important Nations Sports Fronts Deserve

Author:Daley Thompson

“You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.”

Sports Community France Germany Village Magnificent Facility Holland Pristine

Author:Graham Taylor

“Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's?”

Sometimes Done Sports Our Lives Havens

Author:Ian Thorpe

“I've been playing tennis, and just whatever sport is in front of me I will do.”

Sports Fronts Tennis

Author:Jeanne Tripplehorn

“In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.”

Wells Might Sports Community Challenges Pride Response Stranger Representation Clans

Author:John Thorn

“I played one game, and one game played me.”

Games Sports

Author:Lawrence Taylor

“I could see myself still swimming because I'm really enjoying the sport. But at the same time I have this biological clock that is ticking.”

Stills Sports Enjoy Clock Swimming Clock Is Ticking Biological Clock Ticking Time

Author:Libby Trickett

“Wasim and Waqar were amazing bowlers. I would put them right up there with the best in the world.”

World Sports Bowlers

Author:Sachin Tendulkar

“My schedule has slowed a little. I've cut back on some of my assignments. But I still have the enthusiasm for the sports world that I had 38 years ago.”

World Years Littles Stills Sports Cutting Years Ago Enthusiasm Schedules Assignments

Author:Lesley Visser

“Jet-skiing is my favorite water sport.”

Sports Water My Favorite Jet Skiing Water Skiing

Author:Sharni Vinson

“I was nervous batting eighth, and I was nervous batting seventh.”

Sports Nervous Batting

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“Whatever I can do to win, I'll do it, even if I have to get hit by a pitch, whatever it takes.”

Ifs I Can Winning Sports Can Do Whatever It Takes

Author:Dontrelle Willis

“Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.”

Enough Able Games Winning Sports Loses Decision Fortunate Win Or Lose

Author:Dontrelle Willis

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