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“Growing up in Huntington Beach, you were either a traditional sports athlete, a skateboarder, or a surfer. I got my first skateboard when I was five and skated off and on over the years, did a little BMX racing as a kid, and then in my freshman or sophomore year I started getting a little bit more into skateboarding.”

“In the beginning the Gods made man, and fashioned the sky and the sea, And the earth's fair face for man's dwelling-place, and this was the Gods' decree: "Lo, We have given to man five wits: he discerneth folly and sin; He is swift to deride all the world outside, and blind to the world within: So that man may make sport and amuse Us, in battling for phrases or pelf, Now that each may know what forebodeth woe to his neighbor, and not to himself.”

Knows Men World May Made Earth Faces Given Sports Sin Five Sea Sky Fairs Blind Neighbor Wit Phrases Folly Woe Dwelling Decree Dwelling Place

Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection

“Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.”

Years Long Sports Five Very Good Five Years Haul Long Haul

Author:Billie Jean King

“Well I forgot how different it was because I've been here for about four or five years. It's a big load off my shoulders now. Now that I'm there, I'm like, man, I can breathe a little bit, you know?”

Knows Men Years Wells Littles I Can Different Bigs Bits Sports Five Four Little Bit Breathe Shoulders Five Years Load

Author:Latrell Sprewell

“The most interesting guy I've ever played with was King Hassan of Morocco. I went over there on a trip in the early 1970s, and the King and I played five holes. I've never been that nervous in my life.”

Guy Sports Interesting Five Kings Holes Nervous Most Interesting Morocco Hassan

Author:Lee Trevino

“[When asked how tall she is:] I'm five feet, 15 inches.”

Sports Five Feet Size Tall Inches

Author:Carol Mann

“Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.”

Giving Trying Mean Ideas Sports Leader Five Land Waste Fishing Pounds Trout Trout Fishing

Author:Cornelia Parker

“But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him.”

Years Children Self Three Sports Five Four Six Disgrace Self Will

Book:The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

Source: The Complete Works of Plato (Unabridged): From the greatest Greek philosopher, known for The Republic, Symposium, Apology, Phaedrus, Laws, Crito, Phaedo, Timaeus, Meno, Euthyphro, Gorgias, Parmenides, Protagoras, Statesman and Critias

“I've taken magic lessons since I was five-years-old. When I was little I would wear a top hat and cape, and I'd get relentlessly beat up by jocks. That's why I don't care for sports.”

Years Littles Care Sports Taken Five Magic Lessons Beats Don't Care I Don't Care Five Years Hats Five Year Olds Capes Jocks Top Hats

Author:Matthew Gray Gubler

“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.”

Shows Sports Five Team New York Twenties Yankees Twenty Five New York Yankees

Author:Bill Lee

“When you've played this game for ten years and gone to bat seven-thousand times and gotten two-thousand hits do you know what that really means? It means you've gone zero for five-thousand.”

Knows Years Mean Two Games Sports Gone Five Thousand Ten Seven Zero Do You Know Bats Really Mean

Author:Reggie Jackson

“Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.”

Ifs Knows Next Sports Five Six Shots Golf Seven Cracks Next Time

Author:Alice Cooper