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“When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death.”

Way Action Speak Sports Steps Stage News Edges Enormous Thrown Headlines Living On Every Step Life Or Death Words You Speak Living On The Edge Every Step You Take

Author:Boris Becker

“Reading. That was the sport I was good at.”

Author:George R. R. Martin

“Nutrition has always played a huge role in my life. I became a vegetarian when I was 13 and then got my entire family to become vegetarians. And I have always been active my whole life. I genuinely enjoy sports and I spend time on my total gym.”

Whole Sports Enjoy Roles Huge Active Whole Life Vegetarian Gym Nutrition End Times Spend Time

Author:Christie Brinkley

“I am really passionate about sports in general - especially water sports.”

Sports Water Passionate Sports In General

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.”

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Author:Joe Frazier

“Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.”

People Important Today Young Values Sports Perseverance Loyalty Solidarity Playing Sports Important Values

Author:Pope John Paul I

“Certain things do not effect me anymore, which is not always good. There is always commotion, but I notice that hardly anything affects me or puts me out of balance.”

Certain Sports Effects Balance

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.”

Knows Reality Lasts Sports Forever Circumstances Adults Nfl Nothing Lasts Forever Colts

Author:Peyton Manning

“American sports are quite masculine. And football - although it's still played by men all over the world - football compared to American football is quite feminine in its artistry. And there's no padding. It's America's loss, though.”

Men World Stills America Sports Loss Football Feminine Masculine Artistry American Football

Author:Noel Gallagher

“Success in management and success in sport are derived from the same basic principles.”

Sports Principles Management Basic Principles

Author:Will Carling

“When you're not practicing, someone somewhere is. And when the two of you meet, assuming roughly equal ability, the other person will win.”

Inspirational Persons Two Winning Sports Ability Practice Player Hard Work Victory Politician Equal Losing Competition Assuming Competitors Hard Work Pays Off Practice Makes Perfect

Author:Bill Bradley

“Mostly I play sports games - football and basketball. 'Inside Drive' and 'NFL Fever.'”

Play Games Sports Football Basketball Nfl Fever

Author:Paul Pierce

“Boxer guys are very tough and they play a very tough game, but its a game. Karate guys, tae kwon doe guys, kickboxers or judo guys, they are very tough guys and a lot of heart and a lot of training, but its very specifically as a sport. It's not a fight. A fight is everything goes.”

Heart Doe Play Guy Fighting Games Sports Training Tough Boxers Karate Judo Tough Guy Tough Games

Author:Rickson Gracie

“Always enter like a kitten and leave like a lion. But NEVER enter like a lion and leave like a kitten. Always be humble.”

Inspirational Funny Sports Humorous Humble Martial Arts Lions Kitten Be Humble Stay Humble

Author:Carlson Gracie

“In sport, if you want to be the best you have to compete against the best - I would much rather have come tenth and be judged against everyone than come first and be judged against just a few.”

Ifs Want Firsts Sports Being The Best Judged

Author:Daley Thompson

“If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.”

People Ifs Way Real Hard Guy Games Winning Sports Achieve Worst Hard Work Deserve Prejudice Real Life Worst Things Inertia Being Played What You Deserve

Author:Daley Thompson

“You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.”

Want Sports Player Team Wall Balls Bangs Sports Team Team Player

Author:Dom Starsia

“I was all-state in four sports in New Jersey, but sometimes I couldn't get served at a restaurant two blocks from my high school. There were no job opportunities then... the only thing a black youth could aspire to be was a bellboy or a pullman or an elevator operator, or, maybe, a teacher. There was a time when all we had was black baseball.”

“I think the best way to find out about something is to try to do it to the max. A lot of people take up a hobby or sport and then find an excuse not to carry on with it. Once I start something, I won't stop until I'm as good at it as I'll ever be.”

People Thinking Way Trying Sports Excuse Best Way Hobbies Max

Author:Bruce Dickinson

“Golf can be tougher than tennis when things go wrong, because you can't explain things by saying that your opponent played better than you. It's a cruel sport in that way.”

Way Sports Golf Opponents Tennis Better Than You When Things Go Wrong

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“Very few blacks will take up golf until the requirement for plaid pants is dropped.”

Sports Golf Pants Requirements Plaid

Author:Franklyn Ajaye

“I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.”

Source: Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study

“When things could've gone really bad, rugby caught my interest and I really stuck with it. The sport brought me, maybe off the streets where we'd be fighting, into putting in a good effort in the rugby field where you're kind of rewarded for that rough behaviour instead of in trouble with the law.”

Kind Law Fighting Sports Interest Effort Gone Trouble Streets Fields Caught Stuck Rough Behaviour Rugby

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“It must be wonderful sport to contradict each other.”

Sports Wonderful

Author:Juliana of the Netherlands

“I have three kids, and I'm a coach for a lot of their sports, so I'm around them a lot, but I see friends of mine with older kids and they don't really interact so much, other than giving them a place to live.”

Giving Kids Three Sports Mines Coaches Places To Live

Author:Mike O'Malley

“I was always very physical, growing up, and did sports. I like to get out and do different things, and walk in different shoes. I like change. I like challenge.”

Different Sports Challenges Walks Growing Up Growing Shoes Different Things

Author:Emily Bett Rickards

“I've always loved sports and hockey is a sport I play as much as I can. I love it. In a weird way it's like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one. I mean when I play hockey I don't think about anything.”

Thinking Way Mean I Can Play Sports Church Exercise Therapy Hockey

Author:Michael Vartan

“I think the key is never being satisfied with your skills and you have to constantly learn. I say this all the time, I sound like a broken record, but if you are not getting better in this sport you are getting worse”

Ifs Thinking Sports Sound Records Broken Keys Skills Satisfied Get Better

Author:Kenny Florian

“I don't really go mountain biking per se, like a proper sport.”

Sports Mountain Biking Mountain Biking

Author:Chris Cornell

“Comedy has sort of been my life-long obsession. I literally obsessed over comedy. I really didn't play sports - for me it was just comedy, computers and chess club; those were my big things.”

Long Play Bigs Sports Comedy Computer Clubs Chess Obsession Obsessed Big Things Long Life

Author:Chris Hardwick

“While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.”

Reality Today Guy Sports Media Heavy Pants Elites Robotics Bowling Combs Bowlers Liberal Media

Author:Chris Hardwick

“Some people train for certain sports and I want to train to be able to hold a super heavy electric guitar and carry luggage around myself because I always have to have 7,000 pairs of shoes. Who cares about sports?”

People Want Care Able Certain Sports Train Guitar Shoes Heavy Pairs Electric Who Cares Pair Of Shoes Luggage Electric Guitar

Author:Lisa Loeb

“Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally repulsed by him and therefore, repulsed by the sport.”

People Might Sports Boxing Mike Tyson

Author:Dick Schaap

“I could have played football for two or three more years. All I needed was a leg transplant.”

Years Two Three Sports Football Needed Legs Transplants

Author:Johnny Unitas

“I always had two or three jobs at the same time. I started doing yard work when I was 7 or 8. When I was 13, I got my first state job doing road construction. Between working, sports and school, I hardly ever had free time.”

Firsts Two States School Jobs Three Sports Construction Yards Free Time Yard Work

Author:Breaux Greer

“Polo really is a European sport. It's not really that popular in America. I'm not an expert on the sport, but it's fun to watch.”

America Fun Sports Watches Experts Polo

Author:David Lauren

“Dancing with The Stars' is like learning a new sport with lots of bumps and bruises.”

Stars Sports Dancing Bumps Bruises Dancing With The Stars

Author:Lil Romeo

“I am confident of doing well because I am enjoying my sport again.”

Wells Sports Enjoy

Author:Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

“The most important thing you learn as a sports photographer is anticipation - not where the action is taking place, but where it’s going to take place. Not where the subject is now, but where they’re going to be.”

Important Action Sports Subjects Important Things Photographer Anticipation

Author:Lawrence Schiller

“Sports is all about money.”

Author:Lynn Samuels

“With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.”

Sports Results Numbers Fields Outcomes Entitlement Entitlement Programs

Author:Maynard Webb

“The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.”

Certain Sports Results Half Skills Opponents Equations Other Half

Author:Sadaharu Oh

“I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.”

Knows Done Sports Proud Integrity Accomplished

Author:Brady Anderson

“When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.”

Running Wanted Sports Natural Ability Bigger Natural Ability

Author:Brady Anderson

“I worked at my high school newspaper at Andover, which came out weekly, unusual for a high school paper. Then my first day at Penn I went right to the 'Daily Pennsylvanian' and pretty much spent most of my college career working both as the sports editor and then editor of the editorial page.”

Firsts School Sports Careers College Paper Pages High School Newspapers Editors Unusual Editorials

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.”

Trying I Can Helping Winning Sports Player Bears Being The Best Chicago Best Players

Author:Brian Griese

“We've got a lot of potential on offense. But really potential doesn't mean much if you don't realize it.”

Ifs Mean Sports Realizing Offense

Author:Brian Griese

“Every sport needs its temple, its cathedral.”

Needs Sports Temples Cathedrals

Author:Thomas Friedman

“This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.”

Use Fun Sports Normal Pressure Having Fun

Author:Chan Ho Park

“I've realized the extraordinary power of sports to heal, unite and inspire. I believe the Olympics will serve as the ultimate platform to provide positive changes and I hope to inspire all of Japan through my strong showing there.”

Believe Strong I Believe Sports Inspire Ultimate Extraordinary Heal Japan Platforms Olympics Positive Change

Author:Kohei Uchimura