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“I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?”

Source: Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition

“Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.”

May War Form Language Sports Emotional Destruction Redemption Intensity

Book:The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

Source: The Longest Race: A Lifelong Runner, An Iconic Ultramarathon, and the Case for Human Endurance

“What I'm against is a sport that rewards mass for the sake of mass to the exclusion of all other physical properties of the physique. In other words, there comes a point where, if you keep adding muscle mass, the human body loses its beauty, shape and form. That's what I'm against.”

Ifs Humans Body Form Sports Loses Shapes Mass Property Rewards Sake Muscles Human Body Bodybuilding Exclusion Physique

Author:Lee Labrada

“The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will finally rise to your fly. You dream as you drop off to sleep at night about the lunker that got loose just as you were about to net it.”

Dream Form Night Sports Sleep Sea Rivers Casts Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing

Author:Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

“Eating properly is great. I mean you cut the fat down, cut the cholesterol out, but still you got to get your rest and you got to have some form of exercise.”

Mean Stills Form Sports Cutting Exercise Eating Fats Cholesterol

Author:Mike Ditka

“Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.”

Form Sports Fans Entertainment Analysis Resumes

Author:Mark Cuban

“All that the Y.M.C.A.'s horse and rings really accomplished was to fill me with an ineradicable distaste, not only for Christian endeavor in all its forms, but also for every variety of calisthenics, so that I still begrudge the trifling exertion needed to climb in and out of a bathtub, and hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

“I consider skateboarding an art form, a lifestyle and a sport. 'Action sport' would be the least offensive categorization.”

Art Would Be Action Form Sports Lifestyle Offensive Skateboarding Categorization Skateboarder

Author:Tony Hawk

“Hip-hop in a lot of ways is like sports; when you go to a sports game, you see people from all ages, all ethnicities, all social classes, they're all there enjoying the game. Hip-hop has been one of the only forms of music that has provided that kind of atmosphere.”

People Way Kind Has Beens Age Form Games Social Sports Enjoy Class Hip Hop Hips Atmosphere Hops Ethnicity Social Class

Author:LeCrae

“In the future I would like to try other forms of racing, testing Formula cars or single seaters would be good, but again it is finding the time as I am incredibly busy. I don't think I have the time to try any other new sports. I have already cut skiing out of my routine in order to manage the racing and riding relationship. By the looks of things I am going to be busy for quite a few years.”

Thinking Trying Years Looks Would Be Form Order Sports Cutting Car Findings Busy Be Good Manage Routine Formulas Racing Riding Testing Skiing

Author:Liz Halliday

“Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.”

Littles Persons Form Winning Sports Leadership Perfect Failing Products Beats Perfection Strive Ruins Conquer Flaws Mediocrity Within You Great Ones

Author:Bob Richards

“In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Mean Art Form Certain Turns Sports Enjoy Can Do Serious Police Cooking Sake France Officers Police Officer Basics Complication Cuisine French Cooking

Author:Julia Child