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“For one thing, when you're playing as well as I was at the time, you think you can play with anything. That isn't true, of course, but I didn't know it then.”

Thinking Knows Wells Play Courses Sports One Thing

Author:Payne Stewart

“I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes.”

Thinking Sports Saws Needed Walking Toms Captains Rope Gallery Jordan Carts Kites

Author:Payne Stewart

“I went over before the British Open and played Valderrama thinking that I might make the team, might be a captain's pick. I made the effort to go over there.”

Thinking Made Might Sports Effort Team Picks British Captains

Author:Payne Stewart

“I haven't thought about it. I'm not capable of deep thinking.”

Thinking Sports Havens Capable Deep Thinking

Author:Phil Simms

“I don't think anybody ever saw anybody taking anything.”

Thinking Sports Saws

Author:Rafael Palmeiro

“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.”

Thinking Knows Way Want Guy Games Sports Player Edges

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

“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.”

Thinking World Age Young Games Winning Sports Average Cups Improving World Cup Squad

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“I think we have really integrated well around Manchester. This is the place where we feel at home. We like it here, we love the English way of life and we prefer it much, much more than the south of Europe.”

Thinking Way Feels Wells Home Sports Europe South Integrated Manchester

Author:Ruud van Nistelrooy

“I played Chang here under the lights here. I think that was '91. Another good match. I've played a lot more good matches under the lights than I played bad. You tend to remember some of the bad ones unfortunately.”

Thinking Light Remember Sports

Author:Stefan Edberg

“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

“I think we'll be in pretty good shape. We've got the same car we ran in all the speedway races since 2001, and it's been a real good car for us. It's led every race we've been in.”

Thinking Real Sports Race Car Shapes Ran

Author:Sterling Marlin

“We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.”

Thinking Years Together Lasts Fall Winning Strong Felt Sports Chance Last Year Championship Good Chance Previous Years

Author:Sterling Marlin

“I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.”

Thinking Helping Guy Strong Sports Careers Defense Coaches Excellent Coaching Consistent Staff Offense Outstanding Assistants

Author:Steve Spurrier

“I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?”

Thinking Sports Lines

Author:Vince Lombardi

“The hardest thing to do in sports, I think, is to hit a home run.”

Thinking Home Running Sports Baseball Hardest Things To Do Hardest Thing Home Run Hardest Thing To Do

Author:Mickey Mantle

“To a sprinter, the hundred-yard dash is over in three seconds, not nine or ten. The first 'second' is when you come out of the blocks. The next is when you look up and take your first few strides to attain gain position. By that time the race is actually about half over. The final 'second' - the longest slice of time in the world for an athlete - is that last half of the race, when you really bear down and see what you're made of. It seems to take an eternity, yet is all over before you can think what's happening.”

Source: I Have Changed

“I think most of my lessons come from sports. That's why I always emphasise to young kids to get involved in sports because it's where you learn about discipline. It's where you learn to keep going, where if you think you can't make it, you can.”

Ifs Thinking Kids Young Sports Discipline Involved Lessons Keep Going Get Involved

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.”

Thinking Needs Sports Team Football Basketball Essence Baseball Seasons Hockey Defining Parity

Author:Michael Wilbon

“I think I am good in the department of body language and fighting, and stuff like that. It's just natural to me, maybe because I love sports.”

Thinking Body Fighting Language Stuff Sports Natural Department Body Language

Author:Antonio Banderas

“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

“We're bombarded with liberal propaganda 24/7, from the early morning shows, Hollywood movies, documentaries and sitcoms, all major newspapers, fashion magazines, the sports pages, public schools, college professors and administrators, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Unless liberals specifically seek out Ann Coulter books and columns, which I highly recommend, or tune into Fox News or conservative talk radio, they have no idea what conservatives are thinking.”

“Hiking is great because it's a lifelong sport and you're outdoors, active, so whether you call that a sport or a hobby or a recreation, I think the wording - it's a great way to get exercise, and it can be as challenging as you want to make it.”

Thinking Way Want Sports Challenges Exercise Active Hiking Hobbies Lifelong Recreation Wording

Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis

“I think there absolutely are so many lessons that can be learned from sports and so many different positive things that don't necessarily get the spotlight and the attention.”

Thinking Different Sports Attention Lessons Spotlight Positive Things

Author:Kristopher Belman

“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

“When your Islamic discourse with someone becomes a debate, that's when you know that you have to stop. The psychology of a debate is like a sports competition, and no one likes to lose. So even if you make a good point, the other person isn't going to congratulate you. They are thinking about revenge.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Sports Loses Psychology Competition Revenge Debate Likes Islamic Discourse Congratulations Muslim Sports Competition

Author:Nouman Ali Khan

“My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.”

Thinking Sports Tree Football Brother My Favorite My Brother Climbing Climbing Trees Playing Outside

Author:Madeline Carroll

“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

“Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.”

Thinking Way Play Sports Republican Let Me Balls Democrat Broke

Author:Arthur Ashe

“I'm a visual thinker, really bad at algebra. There's others that are a pattern thinker. These are the music and math minds. They think in patterns instead of pictures. Then there's another type that's not a visual thinker at all, and they're the ones that memorize all of the sports statistics, all of the weather statistics.”

Thinking Mind Sports Type Patterns Math Weather Visuals Statistics Thinker Algebra Math And Music

Author:Temple Grandin

“Baseball, like some other sports, poses as a sacred institution dedicated to the public good, but it is actually a big, selfish business with a ruthlessness that many big businesses would never think of displaying.”

Thinking Bigs Sports Baseball Institutions Sacred Selfish Dedicated Big Business Public Good Ruthlessness

Author:Jackie Robinson

“There are boxers possessed of such remarkable intuition, such uncanny prescience, one would think they were somehow recalling their fights, not fighting them as we watch.”

Thinking Fighting Sports Watches Intuition Remarkable Possessed Boxers Uncanny

Book:On Boxing

Source: On Boxing

“I think what it takes to succeed remains the same. You have to have a real love of your sport to carry you through all the bad times, you still want to go ski even when things aren't working. You must have a commitment to work hard and to never give up.”

“I love that our sport is sexy. I think it is appropriately so.”

Thinking Sports Sexy Volleyball

Author:Kerri Walsh

“I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.”

Thinking Children Play Individual Sports Effort Responsibility Team Hockey Playing Sports

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“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.”

Thinking Kind Ends Matter Care Sports Baby Sticks Corners Take Care Hockey Touching Nhl Crossings Powder Ice Hockey Great Hockey Motivational Hockey Hockey Sticks

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.”

Thinking Want Next Sports Generations Bigger Legacy Next Generation Bigger And Better

Author:Joel Parkinson

“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.”

Thinking Feels Looks Able Certain Games Sports Results Watches Television Decided Bounds Look Up Cheat Replay

Author:A. S. Byatt

“When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.”

Thinking Want Should Important Wanted Young Sports Truth Is Husband Mirrors Lists Shocking Blah Mirror Image

Author:Nora Ephron

“It's frustrating in the sense that I still think I could be competing at some sport at a fairly high level, which nobody cares about. Nobody wants to hear me say that.”

Thinking Want Stills Care Sports Levels Competing Frustrating High Level Nobody Cares

Author:Lance Armstrong

“People can say whatever they want about the sport of bodybuilding, but to get prepared to do a contest or even think about doing a contest, or even to get into decent shape, it requires a certain amount of discipline, and it comes from taking a new year's resolution to a lifestyle.”

People Thinking Want Years Certain Sports Amount Discipline Shapes Prepared Lifestyle Decent Resolution New Year Contests Bodybuilding New Year's Resolutions

Author:John Cena

“I think having a vision can make someone an influential man. I'm not talking about acting or anything like that, I'm talking about people I admire, whether it's a writer or a musician or a sports figure or a politician, whatever.”

People Thinking Men Sports Acting Talking Vision Figures Politician Musician Admire Influential Not Talking

Author:Benicio Del Toro

“To me, doing the Olympics in 1992 in Barcelona for NBC, just seeing the Dream Team take the floor, was a thrill for me. I dont think there was another team in any sport with that high level of athletes playing together.”

Thinking Dream Together Sports Levels Seeing Team Athlete Olympics Thrill High Level Barcelona Nbc Playing Together Dream Team

Author:Marv Albert

“I think, without question, the way someone plays sports shows something about inherently who they are, you know?”

Thinking Knows Way Play Shows Sports

Author:Hill Harper

“you'd definitely think of me more as a good sport than as an athlete.”

Thinking Sports Athlete Think Of Me Good Sports

Author:Gabrielle Burton

“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

“Sport is a universal language, building more bridges between people than anything else I can think of.”

People Thinking I Can Language Sports Building Universal Bridges Universal Language

Author:Sebastian Coe

“I love the pole vault because it is a professor's sport. One must not only run and jump, but one must think. Which pole to use, which height to jump, which strategy to use. I love it because the results are immediate and the strongest is the winner. Everyone knows it. In everyday life that is difficult to prove.”

Thinking Knows Use Running Sports Difficult Results Prove Strategy Everyday Winner Height Strongest Professors Everyday Life Vaults Pole Vault

Author:Sergei Bubka

“If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.”

Ifs Thinking Father Sports

Author:Pat Conroy

“I think there are definite parallels between sport and art. There's a real sense of sacrifice. There's a real sense of dedication that is needed in sport that I think you can attribute to art. I think so much of it is about bravery and courage, being an actor.”

Thinking Art Real Actors Sports Sacrifice Needed Bravery Attributes Dedication Definite Parallels Bravery And Courage

Author:Matt Smith

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