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“As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.”

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Author:Rory McIlroy

“All success in sports and athletics, from the Zen point of view, comes from the mind. No matter what kind of shape your body is in, there is disharmony in the being.”

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Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's nice to feel the fans are behind you. You shouldn't concern yourself with things like that - but it does matter.”

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Author:Dan Marino

“I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.”

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Author:Dan Marino

“Take a strong wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as strong. Take a quick wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as quick. Take a technical wrestler, get them tired, and they aren't as technical. No matter what kind of wrestler, everyone is afraid of getting tired. It's those who learn to perform when they're tired that find success.”

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Author:Jay Robinson

“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.”

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Author:Will Rogers

“Every athletic career, no matter how modest or lofty, is a journey.”

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Author:Dan Millman

“Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.”

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Author:Rick Reilly

“I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably reflect the sport safely available. The second and deeply urgent one is that we shall grow a race of sportsmen no one of whom will ever consider it a matter of pride to have killed a limit.”

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Author:Roderick Haig-Brown

“It's just a matter of hitting the ball where I want to hit it and hopefully making some putts.”

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Author:Bernhard Langer

“Depending on how we start the season, I can play center or wing... It doesn't matter to me.”

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Author:Mario Lemieux

“No matter how noble and special people want to make the playoffs out to be... it's a crapshoot.”

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Author:Orel Hershiser

“There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.”

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Author:Michael Wilbon

“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.”

Source: Etiquette: In Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home

“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

“I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.”

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Author:Wayne Gretzky

“It's because you alienate half the room talking about sports. Half the crowd will be against you no matter what you say.”

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Author:Gabriel Iglesias

“Being a sports fan is a complex matter, in part irrational but not unworthy; a relief from the seriousness of the real world, with its unending pressures and often grave obligations.”

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Author:Richard Gilman

“I need to work with great directors and actors, people who are better than me, so that I am challenged. It is like playing sports - surfing, basketball, it doesn't matter what it is, if you play with people who are better than you, then you get better too. It is the same thing with acting.”

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Author:Paul Walker

“I felt comfortable in the water. I was in my own world, focused. I love sports and I'm a very goal-oriented person. Once I started falling in love with sports, it was easy. I was able to put my mind on something and go for it. That's how I am with everything, it doesn't matter what it is that I do. If I want to do something, nothing will stand in my way.”

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Author:Michael Phelps

“Not only do I have a great love for the game of golf - no matter how badly I play it - but I have also the belief that through every kind of meeting, through every kind of activity to which we can bring together more often and more intimately peoples of our several countries, by that measure we will do something to solve the difficulties and the tensions that this poor old world seems nowadays to so much endure.”

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Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I feel like I'm the most competitive driver in the motorhome lot. No matter what it is - whether we're racing, playing another sport or deciding who can run to that sign and back faster - I feel like I'm the most competitive person alive.”

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Author:Denny Hamlin

“Football's another sport I absolutely despise. Along with baseball. Really, for me, basketball's the only real sport, the only one that matters.”

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Author:Stephen Graham Jones

“I have to keep myself in check when I go to the kids' sports events. I sit waaay in the back. I make sure I don't do too much cheering, you know what I mean? I'm still not quite adjusted to this modern school of thought: Oh, it doesn't matter who wins. I'm not all the way there yet, but I accept it from the back row.”

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Author:Jack Nicholson

“When you're in professional sports, winning is the only thing that matters.”

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Author:Leo Durocher

“I've often been struck by the extensive knowledge that people have of sports, and particularly, their self-confidence in discussing it with experts. . . . In contrast, when discussing matters of concern to human lives - their own and others - people tend to defer to experts.”

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Author:Noam Chomsky

“You’ve got to fight for that connection with God all the time no matter what you're going through in life. I'm growing up. I'm maturing. But I definitely think that the backbone of this is the freedom and creativity I have without the fear of failing. If I fail, what's going to happen? Nothing. I'm not looking for my self-worth in the sport.”

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Author:Kelly Clark