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“How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.”

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Author:John Elway

“I just meant as far as coming to the games on time; it was just like I was under the microscope, every little thing, it was like they were looking for me to come in here with my shoes untied.”

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Author:Latrell Sprewell

“I enjoy playing the game. It's hard for me to just watch it, even while broadcasting.”

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Author:Lynn Swann

“It really lasted the whole game, because I was really untouchable, unstoppable that game. But it was heightened on one particular play, and that was the longest run where everything completely slowed down. My awareness was so keen, it was so heightened, it was really amazing.”

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Author:Marcus Allen

“You know, I think when I reflect on it, I think there's certainly a sense of history. When you have ambitions to play this game, you want to be one of the best ever, and you want to play so well and be so effective that you want people to remember your name 100 years from now.”

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Author:Marcus Allen

“I didn't like the way the game was being played.”

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Author:Mario Lemieux

“I think the game has opened up, and that's why I decided to come back and try to be a part of it.”

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Author:Mario Lemieux

“The first few games that we played against some of the teams, the young guys, you know, want a stick sign or photo sign, and I think that they respect what I have achieved throughout my career.”

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Author:Mario Lemieux

“Well, I think just a desire to come back and be a part of the game again.”

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Author:Mario Lemieux

“It's a tough game, and you never want to take that aspect out of the game.”

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Author:Mark Messier

“I always give Lindsay so much credit for her tennis game, for her attitude, for her person, and because of how she deals with all the things. I don't think people give her enough credit for how well she's doing.”

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Author:Martina Hingis

“The game overall has gotten so much better, stronger, more physical parts to the game.”

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Author:Martina Hingis

“I always loved the game, but when my legs weren't hurting it was a lot easier to love.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“And in nineteen seventy two I almost wasn't, on the team, but I knew about it just before Olympic Games for three months before this why this is was not very good for me. I'd been ready to go, you know.”

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Author:Olga Korbut

“Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.”

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Author:Olga Korbut

“I think the most important thing I work on is just my mental approach to every day, my mental approach to the game. How to come in each and every day focused, doing what I want to do, I think that's just the biggest issue.”

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Author:Paul Pierce

“It's always good to get a goal on your first shift, but this was a game it seemed everything was going in.”

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Author:Peter Forsberg

“Pretty it's pretty good for me because I'm over here in the winters. It's really improved my golf game.”

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Author:Peter Forsberg

“I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.”

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Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“It was not a friendly game, and Jerry certainly did not have friendliness in his eyes. He had an extra mean streak that day. He was out of control and probably should have been ejected.”

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Author:Roger Staubach

“There's always something special when the service academies play each other that's not in any other game. This is not a regular game, and everyone involved knows that.”

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Author:Roger Staubach

“I personally think that we can win the World Cup. We are improving with every game. With such a young average age in the squad we can only carry on improving.”

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Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“People say it is part of the game. You win some, you lose some. But not for me.”

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Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“The reason I am here, they tell me, is that I played the game a certain way, that I played the game the way it was supposed to be played.”

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Author:Ryne Sandberg

“The serve really is the key to my game.”

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Author:Stefan Edberg

“Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.”

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Author:Steve Spurrier

“Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.”

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Author:Steve Spurrier

“Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.”

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Author:Troy Vincent

“We can no longer ignore the stupidity of the hits that are still happening today despite the fact that the players know the concussion aspect is such a big part of the game and sports in general.”

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Author:Jeremy Roenick

“There is something about Game 7 that there's a memory there for you for sure. You want to be a coach or a manager or a player or a goaltender that gets it done, because to me, that's all part of sports. That's what you dream about when you're a little kid - scoring the winning goal.”

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Author:Mike Babcock

“I'd noticed him watching me for a year or so, especially when we'd play games where there was running or jumping.”

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Book:Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

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“There is no truth in the idea that the person who hits the most balls will become the best golfer. Golf is a bizarre sport. You can work for years on your game, without making any improvement in your score.”

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Author:Fred Couples

“Hitting a golf ball correctly is the most sophisticated and complicated maneuver in all of sports, with the possible exception of eating a hot dog at a ball game without getting mustard on your shirt.”

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Author:Ray Fitzgerald

“My first on the bucket list will be a night game at LSU. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there. Of all the things in college sports, that would be No. 1.”

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Author:Beano Cook

“When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?”

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Author:Michel Martin

“I definitely like to stay active. Im a huge fan of the NBA and the sport of basketball. I love to play pick-up games in Brooklyn where I live.”

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Author:Brendan Dooling

“My first motion capture game was with Sony - NBA: The Life. It was very ahead of its time. Brandon Akiaten, he was the writer and director. He had a real vision of what this game was meant to be; it was a basketball game where I was the Jerry Maguire sports agent type guy. And it was great!”

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Author:Nolan North

“Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.”

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Author:Ndamukong Suh

“Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.”

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Author:Arthur Ashe

“Coaches and headmasters praise sport as a preparation for the great game of life, but this is absurd. Nothing could be more different from life. For one thing sports, unlike life, are played according to rules. Indeed, the rules are the sport: life may behave bizarrely and still be life, but if the runner circles the bases clockwise it's no longer baseball.”

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Author:Barbara Holland

“To be a good sportsman, one must be a stoic and never show rancor in defeat, or triumph in victory, or irritation, no matter what annoyance is encountered. One who can not help sulking, or explaining, or protesting when the loser, or exulting when the winner, has no right to take part in games or contests.”

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“Baseball has a special place in our hearts. It is the game that shows us as we would like to be.”

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Book:The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

Source: The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary

“Relaxation is a physical and moral necessity. Animals, even to the simplest and dullest, have their games, their sports, their diversions. The toil-worn artisan, stooping and straining over his daily task, which taxes eye and brain and limb, ought to have opportunity and means for an hour or two of relaxation after that task is concluded.”

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Author:Horace Greeley

“I was always into sports games. Never really played anything else. I grew up on games like Madden and NBA Jam.”

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Author:Chris Paul

“Our sports [softball] is a game of failure already so my dad always says to parents who he is a pitching coach and he's been my pitching coach since I was 11 years old is if they can be the best kid on the team, let them experience that and then obviously the challenge has to come later on but you don't get that opportunity very often and confidence is such a huge part of this game and in life in general.”

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Author:Jennie Finch

“It's a game of failure [softball]. Everybody would play, that was easy and everyone's not playing because it is so tough. But it's a matter of keep plugging away, keep working hard, believing in yourself and it is a team sport and there is nothing better than being out there, having a ball in your hand, playing the game that you love and ultimately that's what it comes down is having fun and enjoying it.”

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Author:Jennie Finch

“In these days people take up with each other and drop each other too easily. Pleasure is practiced like a sport, and the easy game of love leads to the dissolution of the feeling of love.”

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Author:Jeanne Moreau

“I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.”

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Author:A. S. Byatt

“I'm hearing in youth sports where you're not allowed to post scores of games online; everybody's gotta get a trophy. I mean, that's ridiculous. If you're a winner, you're a winner and you get a trophy. If you got second place, you don't get anything.”

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Author:Carli Lloyd

“My uncle played rugby, and my dad played football, and they used to argue which game was the roughest - and everybody agreed rugby was. It's a great team sport, and to be successful, every person has to play in the same level.”

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Author:Clint Eastwood

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