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“I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.”

Ifs Has Beens Actors Sports Fans Calling Hollywood Athlete Convinced Could Have Been Sports Fan Pro Athlete

Author:Jamie Foxx

“On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end of it and we go back to the back of the bus again.”

Has Beens Ends Able Sports Fields Racism Giants Bus

Author:Hank Aaron

“Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.”

Ifs Wells Has Beens Play Actors Sports Gone College College Sports

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I have always said that I want to finish my career with the Dolphins and this put me closer to that goal. I have been fortunate to break many personal records, but my overiding goal is to win a Super Bowl here in Miami.”

Want Has Beens Said Winning Sports Goal Careers Break Records Fortunate Bowls Super Bowl Miami Dolphins

Author:Dan Marino

“Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.”

Has Beens Enough Turns Sports Lines Memories Wonderful Sea Rivers Caught Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Good Enough Rolling Thrill Treasured

Author:Curt Gowdy

“Both gangs have been bad sports, so see if at least one can't redeem themselves by offering no alibis, but cooperate with the winner, for no matter which one it is the poor fellow is going to need it.”

Ifs Needs Has Beens Matter Politics Sports Poor Fellows Winner Offering Gang Alibis

Author:Will Rogers

“Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.”

Needs Should Has Beens Done School Sports Subjects Effects India Cricket Grassroots Subjects In School

Author:Gagan Narang

“That is not enough. Sport has been great for me, a great learning place that if you want to achieve you can, even if you are from the poorest part of Africa.”

Ifs Want Has Beens Enough Sports Achieve Poorest

Author:Haile Gebrselassie

“Some critics of racing witlessly claim that spectators only attend to see someone die. This is utter and complete nonsense. I have been at numerous races where death is present. When a driver dies, the crowd symbolically dies, too. They come to see action at the brink: ultimate risk taking and the display of skill and bravery embodied in the sport's immortals like Nuvolari, Foyt, and thousands of others who operate at the ragged edge.”

Has Beens Action Dies Sports Race Risk Skills Ultimate Claims Bravery Critics Edges Crowds Nonsense Drivers Racing Display Spectators Risk-taking Ragged

Author:Brock Yates

“These guys have been criticized the last few years for not getting to where we're going, but I've always said that the most important thing in sports is to keep trying. Let this be an example of what it means to say it's never over.”

Trying Years Mean Has Beens Said Important Lasts Guy Winning Sports Example Losing Important Things Nba Keep Trying

Author:Jerry Sloan

“I have been amongst the best players in the world for 8 years. None at that level played as many ties as I did.”

World Years Has Beens Sports Levels Player Ties Best Players

Author:Amelie Mauresmo

“I don't think you ever want to be too settled, because once you become settled, you lose a lot of your drive. I mean, I am settled off the court; the business side of things, the papers, contracts and all of that, but there are a lot things that I need to work on, on the court, like my free-throw shooting, which has been terrible. I need to work on being more demanding in the post. My teammates are going to come to me and I just need to go out there and score in the post, which will open up things for our guards.”

Thinking Want Needs Mean Has Beens Sports Sides Loses Terrible Paper Court Posts Shooting Score Contracts Papers Teammate Free Throw

Author:Andrew Bogut

“My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.”

Thinking Wells Persons Has Beens Games Sports Views Subjects Proud

Author:Bill Parcells

“A better ending could not have been scripted. Of course, if we had won, that would have been better.”

Ifs Has Beens Courses Sports Nfl

Author:Bobby Bowden

“He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.”

Ifs Men Want Has Beens Different Done Jobs Names Given Sports Situation Tough Asking Alabama Tough Situations

Author:Don Shula

“There's obviously some validity to it. But I think it also points out that you obviously can do it on your own because people have been doing it long before they had the stuff.”

People Thinking Long Has Beens Stuff Sports Can Do Validity

Author:Frank Shorter

“There have been openings, but I have not interviewed for any jobs, nor do I want to right now.”

Want Has Beens Jobs Sports Right Now Opening

Author:John Elway

“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.”

Should Mean Has Beens Eye Games Sports Should Have Extras His Eyes Friendly Should Have Been Jerry Streaks Friendliness

Author:Roger Staubach

“It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.”

Has Beens Play Fun Sports Receiver

Author:Steve Largent

“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.”

“Sports allow men to build up situations of emergency. What he then demands of himself is unnecessary achievement - and unnecessary sacrifice. He artificially creates the tension that he has been spared by affluent society.”

Men Has Beens Sports Situation Sacrifice Demand Achievement Tension Unnecessary Emergencies Affluent

Book:The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism

Source: The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and Humanism

“Off the packed trail we experience the miracle of corn snow, skiing atop the crust, like skiing on an eggshell that has been sprinkled with sugar.”

Has Beens Sports Miracle Snow Sugar Trails Corn Skiing Eggshells

Author:Susan Minot

“The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.”

Source: The province of the heart

“If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Looks Persons Has Beens Sports He Man Fit Men And Women Ran Realising Feel Better

Author:Maeve Binchy

“Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.”

People May Has Beens Problem Sports Brain Cases Judging Involved Drug Entertainment Lawyer Isolated Surgery Could Have Been Brain Surgery

Author:Dave Parker

“My goal, for almost my entire career, has been to promote ski racing not just in America, but across the world. I think it's an amazing sport. I am happy to be an ambassador for the next Olympics and I will do my best to honour the Olympics spirit and to hopefully encourage kids to participate in sports, especially in Asia and Korea and I am looking forward to an amazing Olympics.”

Thinking World Has Beens Kids America Spirit Next Sports Goal Careers Hopefully Honour Racing Olympics Asia Looking Forward Korea Ambassadors Skis Ski Racing

Author:Lindsey Vonn

“Sports fans have been mistreated for a long time. They have overpaid for inferior food and they have had poor service.”

Long Has Beens Sports Poor Fans Long Time Inferiors Mistreated Sports Fan Poor Service

Author:Dave Checketts

“Traditionally in American society, men have been trained for both competition and teamwork through sports, while women have been reared to merge their welfare with that of the family, with fewer opportunities for either independence or other team identifications, and fewer challenges to direct competition. In effect, women have been circumscribed within that unit where the benefit of one is most easily believed to be the benefit of all.”

Men Has Beens Opportunity Sports Women Challenges Team Effects Benefits Direct Independence Competition Welfare Teamwork Fewer Units Identification American Society

Author:Mary Catherine Bateson

“Lots of guys don't like Jacques Plante, but he has been good to me. He's always by himself, you know, and how can you hate a guy when you never see him?”

Knows Has Beens Guy Hate Sports

Author:Bernie Parent

“I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.”

Has Beens Sports Boys Listening Tiny Watching Sports

Author:Allan McNish

“For 350 years we have been taught that reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man. Football's place is to add a patina of character, a deference to the rules and a respect for authority.”

Men Writing Years Has Beens Character Reading Sports Football Taught Ready Authority Add Conferences Deference

Author:Red Smith

“Unfortunately this is the legacy that has been handed to us by the people before us, people who have won the Tour only to disappoint fans a few years later, if this is part of the process we have to go through to get the sport to the better place, obviously I'm here, I'm doing it.”

People Ifs Years Has Beens Sports Process Fans Legacy Better Place Disappoint

Author:Chris Froome

“If the Age of Sport has been all champagne and roses hitherto, then expect our love affair with its newly-acquired prominence to become increasingly tainted by scandals about cheating. Sport is losing its shine and allure.”

Ifs Has Beens Age Sports Losing Shining Rose Affair Cheating Our Love Scandal Love Affair Champagne Tainted Allure Prominence

Author:Martin Jacques

“Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.”

Has Beens Joy Guy Sports Watches Player Team Grew Grew Up Structure Obvious Sports Team Team Player Beside You

Author:James Preston Rogers

“The war on drugs has been a social and political failure. We need to encourage sport and stop encouraging drugs.”

Needs Has Beens War Political Social Sports Drug War On Drugs

Author:Steven Machat

“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

“My greatest influences in my sport have been two former number one English lady darts players, Deta Hedman and Mandy Solomons. Deta helped me at international events and both helped me to cope with the big occasion which gave me the confidence I needed to become a champion.”

Has Beens Two Bigs Sports Numbers Player Influence Events Needed International Former Occasions Champion Solomon Darts

Author:Trina Gulliver

“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 don't consider myself a particularly young chess player. I have been playing in the best tournaments in the world since I was 16 years old. In other sports, if you have been playing for seven years, you are not a young prodigy any more. You're one of the pros.”

Ifs World Years Has Beens Young Sports Player Seven Chess Seven Years Tournaments Chess Players Prodigies

Author:Magnus Carlsen

“The fans know that I have been giving it my all and that we had the good judgment to when to say when.”

Knows Giving Has Beens Sports Fans Judgment Good Judgment

Author:Bobby Rahal

“What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can't do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad.”

Thinking Has Beens Sports Surrender Pitcher

Author:Lou Gehrig

“If we could have just screwed another head on his shoulders, he would have been the greatest golfer who ever lived.”

Ifs Has Beens Sports Athlete Shoulders Golfers

Author:Ben Hogan

“The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport”

Has Beens Sports Tests Desperate Get Back Arena Pinnacle

Author:James Taylor

“My life has been a kind of mystery to me. By all my logical, linear thinking I started out in school as a little boy, I didn't have a clue about anything. What they were talking about in school, couldn't play sports, couldn't learn, and I was bottom of the class.”

Thinking Kind Littles Has Beens Play School Sports Talking Class Boys Mystery Bottom Logical Clue Little Boys Linear

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“In Lake Placid we have Bible studies and it's awesome to be able to share your struggles as an athlete and as a Christian with others Christian athletes. That's one of the coolest things about sports ministry. We can share these common experiences with other Christians. Having Lolo as a teammate, for example, has been great.”

Has Beens Able Christian Sports Common Struggle Study Share Example Athlete Lakes Ministry Teammate Bible Study Placid Common Experience Lake Placid

Author:Elana Meyers

“I've got some other great teammates like Dallas Robinson and Johnny Quinn on the men's side who have been tremendous at showing Christ's love. It's not just the US teams, but there are also many believers from the international community including several from the Canadian team. We hope to grow Christianity throughout our sport.”

Men Has Beens Grows Sports Sides Christ Community Christianity Team Including International Believer Teammate International Community Dallas Quinn

Author:Elana Meyers

“I understand boxing has been around for so long, and it's old money. The sport has such a history, I just don't understand how it's even a competition though.”

Long Has Beens Sports Competition Boxing Old Money

Author:Jake Hecht

“My life has been centered around sports. It is where I have met my closest friends and shaped the values that have made me a successful athlete, student and role model for young people.”

People Has Beens Made Young Values Sports Roles Successful Students Mets Models Athlete Role Models Closest Closest Friends

Author:Jennie Finch

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