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“Sport is singularly able to give us peak experience where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.”

“Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.”

Years States Sports Common Golf Rounds Folks Range Fishing Hunting Misconception Mississippi Vikings Electronics

Author:Gregg Harper

“The time leading up to the 1996 Olympics was the most demanding and stressful of my career. The sport I had loved so much was slowly becoming a nightmare as I trained with Bela and Marta Karolyi the summer before the Olympics.”

Sports Careers Becoming Summer Nightmare Olympics Stressful

Book:Off Balance: A Memoir

Source: Off Balance: A Memoir

“What do people really believe in any more apart from sport and music?”

People Believe Sports

Author:Richard Ashcroft

“The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.”

Ifs World Mean Country Sports Loses Events Seasons Series Forgotten Playoffs World Series Wedges Greatest Sports

Author:Tim McCarver

“Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.”

Two Games Sports Summer Baseball Mythology Gentle Autumn Pastime

Book:How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

Source: How life imitates the World Series: an inquiry into the game

“My greatest memories as a kid were playing sports with my dad and watching sports with my dad.”

Kids Sports Memories Dad My Dad Playing Sports Watching Sports

Author:Mark Teixeira

“I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history.”

Play Sports Four Special New York Organization Fortunate Cake Special To Me Great Organizations

Author:Mark Teixeira

“A career in sport is almost impossible to manage without the support, and guidance, and reassurance of family and friends. During tough times, and there always are, this is whom we go to.”

Sports Careers Support Impossible Tough Manage Guidance Family And Friends Tough Times Reassurance

Author:Rahul Dravid

“Football is the No. 1 sport in America.”

America Sports Football

Author:Michael Ovitz

“You can play a particular sport as long as you take good care of your body and you're confident enough and still have that hunger to where you want to be a part of an organization, a group of individuals where you feel you can contribute to the success of that team.”

Want Feels Long Stills Enough Play Body Care Individual Sports Groups Team Particular Organization Hunger Your Body

Author:Alonzo Mourning

“Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.”

Wells Important Sports My Family Tennis Relax Spares Spare Time Biking Rollerblading

Author:Irene Rosenfeld

“Nosology (from the Greek nosos, meaning disease, and logos, referring to study) is not a sport for the timid, and certainly not for those so scrupulous about rules and order that they demand consistency in all things.”

Order Sports Study Demand Disease All Things Greek Consistency Referring Logos

Author:Sherwin B. Nuland

“I think it's... I don't want to become a social crusader on this issue, but I think sports, male sports, has traditionally not been an inviting environment for gay men to identify themselves. But eventually... we will get to a place where it is not an issue in sports.”

Thinking Men Want Social Sports Issues Environment Gay Males Inviting Gay Men

Author:David Stern

“I worked at a Sport Chek in Vancouver, only so I could get the discount off snowboard gear. But I hated the job so much, I quit before I got my discount.”

Jobs Sports Quitting Hated Gears I Quit Discounts Vancouver

Author:Missy Peregrym

“Every day I push myself to redefine the limits of our sport”

Sports Limits

Author:Travis Pastrana

“I am very proud to align myself with Miken - a brand known as an innovator and leader in the development of high performance sports equipment.”

Sports Known Leader Development Proud Performances Brands Equipment Innovators

Author:Brett Hull

“Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.”

Lasts Sports Dancing Sponsors

Author:Carine Roitfeld

“Violent predators are not like the rest of us. They kill for fun, for sport, for the sake of it. To compare them to animals is an insult to animals. To expect that we can rehabilitate them assumes a will to change.”

Fun Sports Animal Assuming Sake Violent Compare Insult Predator

Book:Love of Country: Discovering confidence in humanity, law and politics

Source: Love of Country: Discovering confidence in humanity, law and politics

“Figure skating was a pretty individual sport. I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports.”

Play Individual Sports Enjoy Team Figures Doctors I've Learned Nurse Therapists Skating Figure Skating

Author:Debi Thomas

“The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out.”

Sports Prove Great Things Proving Yourself

Author:Grant Hill

“In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.”

Thinking Art Country Sometimes Sports Cities Player Team Involved Outcomes Interaction Sports Team Public Art

Author:Janet Echelman

“Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.”

Sports Mistake Team

Author:Joe Torre

“Baseball is a team sport played by individuals for themselves.”

Individual Sports Team Baseball Sports Team

Author:Joe Torre

“I've never been a fan of individual awards because football is such a team sport. There's so many things that goes into making plays. It's about teammates trusting one another and working together.”

Play Together Individual Sports Team Fans Football Working Together Awards Teammate Sports Team

Author:Troy Polamalu

“If you don't eat right as an athlete, you'll get tired and won't be as sharp. It's simple to drink sodas and sports drinks, but water is the most essential drink to put in your body.”

Ifs Body Sports Water Simple Drink Essentials Tired Athlete Your Body Soda

Author:Troy Polamalu

“Playing professional sports, it's important to eat healthy and take care of your body. In the offseason, rest is really important to me.”

Important Body Care Sports Healthy Take Care Your Body Professional Sports Offseason

Author:Troy Polamalu

“Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.”

Made Play Able Sports Levels Risk Nfl

Author:Troy Polamalu

“In sport, Americans are prominent in the Premier League - both on and off the pitch.”

Sports League And Off Prominent Premier League

Author:Louis Susman

“For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winters night, theres nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon.”

Wells Night Sports Black Cold Drink Absolutes Winter Glasses Evening Plenty Hills Grey Geese Peaches Maple Bourbon Limes Winter Cold Guinness Winter Night Watching Sports

Author:Martin Bashir

“Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.”

Done Sports Frustrating

Author:George Stroumboulopoulos

“My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.”

Thinking World Has Beens Kids America Spirit Next Sports Goal Careers Hopefully Honour Racing Olympics Asia Looking Forward Korea Ambassadors Skis Ski Racing

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“The aura of soccer is very different from other sports.”

Different Sports Soccer Auras

Author:Dave Checketts

“Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.”

Long Has Beens Sports Poor Fans Long Time Inferiors Mistreated Sports Fan Poor Service

Author:Dave Checketts

“Leadership is one of sports intangibles. Guys can score, guys can fight, guys can skate faster than anybody else. But not everybody can say, Follow me.”

Guy Fighting Sports Faster Score Follow Me Skates

Author:Paul Coffey

“Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth.”

People World Wells Country Science Sports Growth Technology Pride Politician Achievement Institutions Educational Brands Science And Technology Jamaica Educational Institutions

Author:Portia Simpson-Miller

“I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.”

Sports Mountain Keep Going Goats Best Sports

Author:Sepp Blatter

“I was just ice skating. I had no concept of that. In those days you couldn't see the judges. I was this little person on the ice and they were just people that would stand around the boards.”

People Littles Persons Sports Judging Concepts Ice Boards Skating Ice Skating

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.”

Ifs Looks Government Sports Proud Involved Athlete China

Author:Patrick Chan

“I tried all kinds of sports when I was a kid, like soccer and tennis and golf, and, in fact, started skating to be able to play hockey.”

Kind Play Facts Kids Able Sports Golf All Kinds Soccer Tennis Hockey Skating

Author:Patrick Chan

“I want to compete in the next Olympics. If I go to Rio, it will be my third time, which is a rare feat for an Indian athlete. For me, Olympics is important because it's the biggest event on earth for a sports person. I hope this time around I come back with a medal.”

Ifs Want Persons Important Earth Next Sports Events Thirds Athlete Indian Olympics Medal Feats Rio Third Time

Author:Vijender Singh

“I think God has it written down for me, that without training and working hard you will never achieve desired results. All three times I have had to toil my way into the Olympics. Talking about pressure, well that is something you have to learn to deal with in sports.”

Thinking Way Wells Hard Three Sports Results Deals Talking Written Achieve Training Pressure My Way Olympics Toil Three Times

Author:Vijender Singh

“Jagdish Singh was my basic coach and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.”

Sports Teaching Fundamentals Coaches Boxing Boxers Singh

Author:Vijender Singh

“In corporate culture, in sports culture, in the media, we honor those who win at all costs.”

Culture Winning Sports Media Honor Cost Corporate Corporate Culture Win At All Costs

Author:Jackson Katz

“The thing that all sports have in common is that they have no fantasy elements, which is a little weird.”

Littles Sports Common Fantasy Elements

Author:Jesse Schell

“I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.”

People Thinking Seems Sports Blood Contact

Author:Sherry Turkle

“To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.”

Years Sports Class Mass Fairs Compare Cricket

Author:Gagan Narang

“I remember, when I was a little kid, I was good at sports, and I could jump off the high board. And then puberty hit, and suddenly I was looking to boys for direction. I remember that as a great loss.”

Littles Kids Remember Sports Loss Boys Boards Little Kid Remember When Puberty Great Loss

Author:Francine Prose

“Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.”

Humor Funny Sports Shoes Bowling Pork Chops

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

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