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“You did not tell me what you are doing athletically just now but I do hope that if your arm comes along next spring you can get it in good shape to try out for the pitching spot on the varsity. However, if you don't make it then I suggest you take up golf which after all is the best game of all of them.”

Ifs Trying Next Games Sports Arms Shapes Spring Golf Spots Pitching

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“But I noted with real satisfaction how well ex-footballers seemed to have leadership qualifications . . . I believe that football, perhaps more than any other sport, tends to instill in men the feeling that victory comes through hard - almost slavish - work, team play, self-confidence, and an enthusiasm that amounts to dedication.”

Men Believe Wells Real Self Hard Play Feelings I Believe Sports Team Football Amount Victory Satisfaction Self Confidence Enthusiasm Dedication Exes Footballer Qualifications Instill

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“To me business is a sport. I love knowing that 24x7x365xforever I'm competing with people I don't know. To build my businesses. To come up with new ideas. To come up with better ideas. That motivates me.”

People Knows Ideas Sports Knowing Come Up New Ideas Competing

Author:Mark Cuban

“Business is a sport and I want to win. I want to kick your ass. I may not win every game. But I certainly am going to try.”

Want Trying May Games Winning Sports Ass Kicks

Author:Mark Cuban

“I'm very bad at watching anything. I'm bad at going to theaters; I can't watch my own stuff; I watch a lot of sports.”

I Can Stuff Sports My Own Watches Theater

Author:Steven Knight

“I have tremendous respect for fighters and I always tell people that boxing in movies is one thing but when you get into the ring for real, even the worst heavyweight in the world is going to murder you. You've just got to appreciate the pain and the suffering and the glory and skill that goes into what they do. That's why I love the sport so much.”

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Author:Sylvester Stallone

“Sport taught me how to goal set, it really gave me a voice and identity.”

Sports Goal Voice Identity Taught

Author:Mia Hamm

“The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.”

Ifs Looks Play Moments Values Sports Lessons Seasons Depth Athlete Life Lesson Life Experience Offering Ups & Downs Sports In General

Author:Willi Smith

“My husband and I make physical activity a priority in our lives, and our daughters love being active as well. And while we each have sports and activities we enjoy, we try to go for hikes or bike rides together whenever we get the chance. We've found that the best way to help our girls be active is to find activities they truly enjoy.”

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Author:Michelle Obama

“The Olympics are too powerful. I hate sports - they generate so much nationalism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, racism, economic exploitation, displacement of communities to build worthless bankrupt stadiums.”

Hate Sports Community Powerful Economic Racism I Hate Nationalism Sexism Exploitation Olympics Worthless Stadiums Homophobia Displacement

Author:Terre Thaemlitz

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”

“People don't realize how much the food industry has infiltrated all aspects of our children's lived experience, including their experience at school. There are sponsored curricula by food companies, they're also in our schools with logos sponsoring sports teams.”

People Children School Sports Realizing Company Team Industry Aspect Our Children Including Logos Sports Team Food Industry

Author:Anna Lappe

“I want to successfully make the transition from a life in professional sports to another life, without running into major upheavals.”

Want Running Sports Majors Transition Another Life Upheaval Professional Sports

Author:Oliver Kahn

“My commitment to the Olympics is not a political commitment. It's not a commitment to any particular social system or cultural idea. It is a commitment to sport.”

Ideas Political Social Sports Particular Commitment Olympics Social Systems

Author:Herbert Hainer

“I take my sport damned seriously. Basketball is my life. There are other people who go into important games as if they were any other game. I'm a brooder and I spend a lot of time thinking about my opponent, about the things he can do and about what I have to do to win. I don't think I'll ever be able to change that.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Able Games Winning Sports Can Do Basketball Opponents Basketball Is My Life

Author:Dirk Nowitzki

“Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.”

People Want Would Be Wanted Young Sports Basketball Connected Backgrounds Spotlight

Author:Dirk Nowitzki

“Playing sports has always been my greatest pleasure. I don't smoke, I hardly drink alcohol. Sports helped get me into the presidential palace. My first position in the union was that of sports secretary.”

Firsts Sports Pleasure Position Drink Unions Alcohol Smoke Presidential Secretary Palaces Greatest Pleasures Playing Sports

Author:Evo Morales

“Things have been invented because of alcohol. Like the taser, okay? Yeah! The morning after pill, okay? The reach-around. Judge Judy. What has pot given the world? Hackey sack? YEAH! Hilarious ring tones? OH GAH! Ultimate Frisbee Championships? It sucks to be a champion at a sport that can't get you laid. It's an unneeded skill like, I dunno, being the best banjo player. Or a squirter.”

“I always wanted to make an abstract photograph. I would photograph walls, sports interiors, marks on the walls people made. Even looking back it makes so much sense. It's like it was a fight against the photograph.”

People Made Wanted Fighting Sports Wall Mark Photograph Abstract Looking Back Interiors

Author:Idris Khan

“Everything for me started with my love of the sport. In society we're losing the fun with kids and pushing success on them too hard. Success comes from fun.”

Hard Kids Fun Sports Losing Pushing

Author:Shawn Johnson

“I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am.”

School Fall Three Sports Hours Football Basketball Spring Accounts Winter Athlete Track Who I Am Nuts After School Winter To Spring

Author:Terry Crews

“I love sports. If I could be a baseball player I would. I just am not good at it at all.”

Ifs Sports Player Baseball If I Could Baseball Player

Author:Eric Hutchinson

“The people we talk about around water cooler at work or at school, they're all the people who are visible in our media whether it's a sports star or a movie star or a writer or a politician. They are people that have received media exposure and have become important to us in a way that's not realistic.”

People Way Important School Stars Sports Water Media Politician Visible Realistic Movie Star Exposure Sports Stars

Author:Crowder

“I only like sports that Bond villains played.”

Humor Funny Sports Villain

Author:Craig Ferguson

“The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.”

Passion Next Sports Difficult Can Do Levels And Love Best Things Riding Next Level

Author:Mark McMorris

“In all of my life, when I was playing sports, I always put 100 percent. I have always given the best.”

Given Sports Percent Playing Sports

Author:Garfield Sobers

“I got into running because I was too uncoordinated to play baseball, too small for basketball, and too tiny for football. I lived in a broken home and had looked to those sports as a way of staying away from my home.”

Way Play Home Running Sports Football Broken Basketball Baseball Tiny Staying Broken Homes

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“If I performed poorly, I knew the eyes of the sports world would be turned away from me. In that situation I knew the NCAA would crush me for sure. But if I could run well, they would not dare to hit me with everyone looking in my direction. I HAD to have a good race.”

Ifs World Wells Would Be Eye Running Sports Race Situation Dare Crush If I Could Ncaa

Author:Gerry Lindgren

“When you're good enough in your sport, you have the option to choose your sponsors. Sometimes you pass up a lot of money to support the people you like and the products you want to use but in the end it's worth it!”

People Want Ends Sometimes Enough Use Sports Support Products Good Enough Lots Of Money Worth It Sponsors

Author:Travis Pastrana

“Everyone that works behind a desk wants to know how many bones I've broken and how much money I make. It seems that people who've never experienced the excitement of sport seem to think the only thing worth taking risks for is money.”

People Thinking Knows Want Seems Sports Behinds Know How Risk Broken Bones Excitement Desks Taking Risks

Author:Travis Pastrana

“I think people in general that don't surf, have a fascination with it. Its definitely much more than a sport or activity, its a way of life. There is a culture that surrounds it and I think people are intrigued by that.”

People Thinking Way Culture Sports Activity Surround Fascination Surf Intrigued

Author:Tristan Prettyman

“Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.”

Ends Kids Wanted Passion Sports Soccer Tennis My Passion Sports In General

Author:Rafael Nadal

“Good sportsmanship means treating others with respect. I consider myself a pretty good sport.”

Mean Sports Respect Respecting Others Sportsmanship Treating Others Good Sports Good Sportsmanship Treating Others With Respect

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“I consider myself to be respectful, and I believe this is a main value for sports.”

Believe Values I Believe Sports Respectful Be Respectful

Author:Tommy Hilfiger

“Succeeding in sport is about how much practise you put in.”

Sports Succeed Practise

Author:Victoria Pendleton

“I don't think I really knew how fit I was when I was a kid. I rode with my dad quite long distances and I've been racing since the age of nine, so we did a lot of sport growing up. My earliest memories of my dad are watching him race, so it was inevitable when we were old enough that my brother and I would get on bikes.”

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Author:Victoria Pendleton

“I feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive.”

Feels Persons Matter Running Sports Alive No Matter What Faster Drivers Racing Competitive Person

Author:Denny Hamlin

“I can assure you that most of the drivers have a lot of things they'd like to do, but racing keeps them from doing that. We're so restricted because of our long season. We have a one-and-a-half-month period where we get to do what we want - that's shorter than any other sport. It makes it tough, for sure.”

Want Long I Can Sports Half Months Periods Tough Seasons Drivers Racing

Author:Denny Hamlin

“Sports teaches you very important lessons that are many and varied. It's probably the closest thing to the lessons we learned in fighting and warfare, about loyalty and growing up.”

Important Fighting Sports Teach Growing Up Growing Lessons Loyalty Closest Warfare Important Lessons

Author:Tinker Hatfield

“As a graphic artist, my job on a local paper was creating the advertising as well as working as a journalist on sports and community issues. There are many more jobs I've done in my day, I can't remember them all.”

Wells I Can Done Jobs Remember Artist Sports Community Issues Paper Creating Locals Advertising Journalist Graphic Graphic Artist

Author:Franny Armstrong

“Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.”

Real Matter Sports Football Basketball Baseball Despise

Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“Racquetball is the only sport where simultaneously you can be looking at the ball and it'll hit you in the back of the head at 90 miles per hour.”

Funny Sports Hours Comedy Balls Miles Racquetball

Author:Brian Regan

“I have rock climbed but not in awhile. Love all sports, reading, cooking, some carpentry, gardening.”

Reading Sports Rocks Cooking Gardening Carpentry

Author:Scott Cohen

“I consider myself as a character actor. I like the sports analogy, which I do all the time; I'm an avid sports guy. I'm a golfer, but I grew up as sort of an avid fan and participant in baseball, and I'm like a relief pitcher. My job is to come in and throw strikes.”

Character Jobs Guy Actors Sports Fans Grew Grew Up Baseball Strikes Relief Golfers Pitcher Participants Analogies Character Actors Avid

Author:Clint Howard

“I'm a sports fan sometimes when I'm drunk. All my friends gamble on sports so whenever we watch a game, everyone's pissed off at the end! Sometimes the commentators speak so quickly, I think you've got to be on drugs to listen to them.”

Thinking Ends Sometimes Games Speak Sports Watches Fans Drug My Friends Drunk Gamble Commentators Pissed Off Sports Fan

Author:Pablo Francisco

“I received a phone call from the chief executive of my principal sponsor [Marlboro], who actually told me that it would be in the interests of the sport if I started to lose races. Which, I mean, just blew my mind.”

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Author:Ron Dennis

“China is a sleeping giant if you just take a look at their experience regarding all kinds of sport, not football though, and the number of people that love sports. Chinese are eager to hit new shores and they are ambitious.”

People Ifs Looks Kind Sports Sleep Numbers Football China All Kinds Chinese Giants Shore Ambitious

Author:Berti Vogts

“To implement a new sport aside your tradition takes time. You definitely need a strategy for the entire country. You need highly qualified coaches for all regions that work with the same concept.”

Needs Country Sports Concepts Tradition Strategy Coaches Regions Take Time Qualified

Author:Berti Vogts

“If you have team spirit you can even beat better teams. As far as team sport is concerned China might need a change in attitude in comparison to the one in table tennis.”

Ifs Needs Might Spirit Sports Attitude Team Beats Concerned Tables China Tennis Comparison Need A Change Sports Team Team Spirit Table Tennis

Author:Berti Vogts

“First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general.”

World Firsts Would Be Sports Team Football Relation China Chinese Sports In General

Author:Berti Vogts

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