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“I feel, first of all, very privileged that these people think enough of me that they made me commissioner. And it's almost like, as Yogi Berra said, 'deja vu all over again.'”

People Thinking Feels Firsts Made Said Enough Sports Privileged Yogi Deja Vu Commissioners

Author:Bobby Hull

“A lot of people think I'm under a lot of pressure with my family and friends spending all that money to follow me around”

People Thinking Sports My Family Pressure Spending Family And Friends Follow Me

Author:Bonnie Blair

“I guess when you have that one monster season, it's good because you're recognized. If it weren't for that season, not as many people would know about my career. But it also kind of diminishes what I did in other years.”

People Ifs Knows Years Kind Sports Careers Seasons Monsters Diminish

Author:Brady Anderson

“It's a difficult job to do, but that is why we do it. Only so many people can do it. But it, it enables you to... for a brief period of time to kind of get away. You have to go back and deal with, but it's a good escape.”

People Kind Jobs Sports Difficult Can Do Deals Periods Get Away

Author:Brett Favre

“If you have an active mind, it always helps. You know, people who don't do crosswords, their minds fall asleep. That's why I do them-my mind is always working. One day my brain is going to explode through the top of my head.”

People Ifs Knows Mind Helping Fall Sports Brain One Day Active Always Working Crosswords Active Minds

Author:Brett Hull

“Kids don't know the language of figure skating. If you ask them to do a compulsory figure, they don't know how to, and that's so important for the edge quality. I think that's why the older skaters are still as popular as they are - because they have that quality that people are missing in this generation.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Stills Important Kids Asks Language Sports Quality Know How Generations Missing Figures Edges Skating This Generation Figure Skating Compulsory Skater

Author:Brian Boitano

“Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.”

People Fall Sports Deals Mistake Missing Program Presses Just One Pulling Falling Apart Folds Rip One Mistake

Author:Brian Boitano

“Our mission for younger people is to do our best to make exercise cool, hip - the thing to do.”

People Sports Exercise Missions Hips Things To Do

Author:Bruce Jenner

“It's funny. Some people remember that a lot more than I do. I remember certain parts of it, and if everybody who mentioned that to me had been to the game who said they were at the game, there'd be 800,000 people at that game, I think.”

People Ifs Thinking Said Remember Certain Games Sports

Author:Carlton Fisk

“People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.”

People Way Made Play Running Today Young Asks Sports Wide Ask Me Quarterback Receiver Running Back Wide Receiver

Author:Dan Fouts

“You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.”

People Knows Sports Hero Ordinary Extraordinary Things In Life Ordinary People Extraordinary Things Ordinary Things

Author:Dave Winfield

“When you beat a team so often - especially like this season when Chelsea had already lost three times to us - you know people expect you to do it again. But you also know they're going to be even more motivated to finally win.”

People Knows Three Winning Lost Sports Team Beats Seasons Motivated Three Times Chelsea

Author:Dennis Bergkamp

“Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.”

People Play Games Winning Sports Chance Nice Player

Author:Elvis Stojko

“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

“It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.”

People Knows Done Hands Sports Player Pressure Vices Coaches Vice Versa Good Coaches

Author:Guy Forget

“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.”

People Thinking Knows Want Years Wells Play Remember Games Names Sports Ambition Best Ever

Author:Marcus Allen

“Obviously every one of them was special to that particular team, all the people that were involved with it.”

People Sports Team Special Particular Involved

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.”

People Thinking Giving Wells Persons Enough Games Sports Deals Attitude Credit Tennis Tennis Game

Author:Martina Hingis

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

People Want Matter Sports Special Noble Playoffs Special People

Author:Orel Hershiser

“We saw very little of the real Jack Buck behind the microphone. He would touch people in ways that we will never know. Jack was much more than just an announcer.”

People Knows Way Littles Real Sports Behinds Saws Bucks Microphones Announcers

Author:Ozzie Smith

“With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?”

People Doe Sports Products Tested

Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.”

People Thinking Believe Important Sports September September 11

Author:Rick Pitino

“It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.”

People Different Philosophy Happens Sports President Differences Bob Ceo

Author:Rick Pitino

“You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.”

People Knows Way Helping Sports Cases Accomplish Good People

Author:Robin Yount

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

People Games Winning Sports Loses

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“A lot of people say this honor validates my career, but I didn't work hard for validation.”

People Hard Sports Careers Hard Work Honor Validation

Author:Ryne Sandberg

“I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.”

People Shows Sports Pay Complaining Tickets Broadway Broadway Shows

Author:Sparky Anderson

“I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.”

People Thinking Sports Incredibles Coming Out Jimmy

Author:Stefan Edberg

“It sure made me feel good to be here today, and have so many people say so many kind things.”

People Feels Kind Made Today Sports Feel Good

Author:Steve Largent

“Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.”

People Ifs Long Sports Worry

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.”

People Firsts Easy Sports Chance Racing Bike Good Chance

Author:Valentino Rossi

“It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.”

People Wells Doe Certain Sports Teach Anything In Life

Author:George Plimpton

“He was constantly on me about the job that I was to do and the responsibility that I had upon the campus. And how I must be able to carry myself because people were looking.”

People Able Jobs Sports Responsibility Athlete Campus

Author:Jesse Owens

“People who worked with me or knew me still called me the 'world's fastest human' because I almost never stopped. I'd found that I could get more done with no regular job or regular hours at all, but by being on my own, flying to speak here, help with a public relations campaign for some client there, tape my regular jazz radio show one morning at 5:00 a.m. before leaving on a plane for another city or another continent three hours later to preside over a major sporting event.”

Source: Jesse, a spiritual autobiography

“Equestrian and sailing are sports for people growing up on the mean streets of Connecticut.”

People Mean Funny Sports Growing Up Growing Streets Olympics Sailing Connecticut London Olympics Equestrian Mean Streets

Author:Craig Ferguson

“I know that this is sport first and business second, and people have to do what's right for them.”

People Knows Firsts Sports Nba Referee

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“People see it [boxing] as a physical contact sport, but it's not. It's really a spiritual one of will against will. Who wants it the most? How much is he willing to take - and dish out - to get it? It's like fighting is 10 percent physical and 90 percent emotional.”

People Want Spiritual Fighting Sports Emotional Willing Percent Contact Boxing Dishes Contact Sports

Author:Mike Tyson

“I think if you want to make a good sports movie, you've got to cut down on the sports. You have to make it about people. You can't try to impress people with your knowledge and the X and O's and all the details and the technicalities.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Trying Sports Cutting Details Impress Technicalities Good Sports Sports Movie

Author:Kevin Costner

“Tendulkar can now rightly lay claim to the title of being the greatest batsman in cricket history. And if some people argue about his greatness then there are certainly no arguments about his being the most prolific, he is a complete run machine and his 50th Test hundred is a testimony of his endurance and passion for the sport”

People Ifs Running Passion Sports Greatness Hundred Argument Tests Machines Claims Lays Arguing Titles Endurance Cricket Testimony Tendulkar

Author:Rashid Latif

“There are people who love on weekends to go out when the sun comes out. I just want to lie in bed and watch sports and relax.”

People Want Lying Sports Watches Sun Bed Relax Weekend

Author:Juan Pablo Galavis

“I have long recognized a link between fitness and mental health and I think we need to encourage young people to take part in sports and team activities because we know it has such positive results.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Long Young Sports Results Team Activity Mental Health Links Positive Results

Author:Tipper Gore

“Many more people in the world are concerned about sports than human rights.”

People World Humans Sports Rights Concerned Human Rights

Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting.”

People America Sports Comedy Blood Logic Twisted Bullfighting

Author:Elayne Boosler

“Whatever you do to recover from a loss, people will be critical because they believe that the only way to recover is their way. And you will even run into some people who should be run into by rhinos because they actually don't want to see you get over your tragedy at all; grief is a spectator sport for them.”

People Way Want Should Believe Running Sports Loss Grief Tragedy Critical Over You Get Over Spectators Want To See You Insensitivity Rhinos

Author:Joan Rivers

“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.”

People Ifs Want Persons Games Fun Sports White Rich Sacrifice Achieve Folks Be Good Tennis Worthwhile Rich People

Author:Arthur Ashe

“Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Super Bowl if he had to.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Years Play Sports Arms Old Man Sixty Bowls Super Bowl

Author:Rita Rudner

“I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.”

People Way Want Faces Sports Essentials And Love Accepted Loner

Author:Arthur Ashe

“The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.”

People Doe Two Whole Sports Mistake Rounds Factors Ireland Laziness Indifferent Interfere Delicacy Socializing Tenants

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good.”

People Problem Song Sports Singing Playing Sports

Author:Stan Lee

“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.”

People Feelings Games Easy Sports Pleasure These Days Dissolution Superficiality

Author:Jeanne Moreau

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