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If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport.Collection: Sports
The modern athlete is an individual corporation. I'm not quite sure it's very good for sport, or good for team work, or those different things that sport says it's about. This is about business.Collection: Sports
I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You're only as good as your weakest link.Collection: Sports
Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.Collection: Sports
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game to play. Even the winners can end up with crippling brain damage. In a lot of ways, hustling is the same. But you learn something special from playing the most difficult games, the games where winning is close to impossible and losing is catastrophic: You learn how to compete as if your life depended on it. That's the lesson I brought with me to the so-called "legitimate" world.Collection: Sports
When I was a kid, I wanted to make my parents happy. I'd always say to them, "What do you want me to do? Do sports? Be rich? Be funny?" My mother would say, "Whatever we want from you, you already gave us - we wanted you to be alive, and you made it."Collection: Sports
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes the helm from the hand of reason, and the mind becomes a wreck.Collection: Sports
It's an individual sport (golf), so it's the exact opposite of baseball. If you hit a bad shot, you can't say, 'Well, this happened.' It's just you. It's your shot. You can't point the finger at anybody but yourself.Collection: Sports
A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport.Collection: Sports
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea.Collection: Sports
Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch.Collection: Sports
Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.Collection: Sports
Victory and defeat are each of the same price.Collection: Sports
I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.Collection: Sports
Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.Collection: Sports
The public must come to see that chess is a violent sport. Chess is mental torture.Collection: Sports
I like to talk. Talking is kind of my thing. If talking had been a sport option at Wexford, I would have been captain. But sports always have to involve running, jumping, or swinging your arms around. You don’t get PE points for the smooth and rapid movement of the jaw.Collection: Sports
I keep getting these extraordinary letters, really weird ones from American sports stars - I've always thought you were one pretty lady and now that you're single I want to meet you for a drink.Collection: Sports
We got to stop people. We go ahead and we score 100 points every night, but we give up more. Our whole thing was, we know we can score, and we have to start having some kind of fun on the defensive end. Everybody want to play offense. Not too many people want to play defense. Defense is ego, pride, and that's the way we've been coming out, just taking the challenge. Man-on-man first, and having each other's back when a guy gets beat.Collection: Sports
We talkin' bout practice?Collection: Sports
Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short; And done, we straight repent us of the sport: Let us not rush blindly on unto it, Like lustful beasts, that only know to do it: For lust will languish, and that heat decay, But thus, thus, keeping endless Holy-.Collection: Sports
When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.Collection: Sports
As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war.Collection: Sports
My favorite sport is football. I'm a die hard Steelers fan. Favorite players were Hines Ward and Greg Lloyd.Collection: Sports
It is almost better to be an impulse shirt-buyer than an impulse shoe-buyer. I have worn shirts that made people think I was a retired Mafia hit-man or a Yugoslavian sports convener from Split, but I have worn shoes that made people think I was insane.Collection: Sports
The Rock is, without a shadow of a doubt, the most electrifying man in sports entertainment today.Collection: Sports
Life is a sport...drink it up.Collection: Sports
If one area I felt it was a tough election was I couldn't see my young son and I couldn't see my wife a lot, but apart from that for her also it was an experienceCollection: Sports
Just give it everything you've got and bowl as fast as possible.Collection: Sports
But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.Collection: Sports
The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.Collection: Sports
The future of Indo-Pak cricket will depend on how the peace process goes.Collection: Sports
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.Collection: Sports
During my 21 years of playing cricket, I have never been approached by anyone or offered a bribe.Collection: Sports
Football today is far too much a sport for the few who can play it well; the rest of us, and too many of our children, get out exercise from climbing up the seats in stadiums, or from walking across the room to turn on our television sets.Collection: Sports
That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed Seymour couldn't figure this out for the life of them! Reed was ashamed of radio. ...radio was a cinch if you kept reaching down and grabbing up handfuls of the ordinary.Collection: Sports
The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.Collection: Sports
Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.Collection: Sports
A smart entrepreneur knows they cannot run a business on their own. They know that business is a team sport.Collection: Sports
Killing animals for sport, for pleasure, for adventure, and for hides and furs is a phenomena which is at once disgusting and distressing. There is no justification in indulging is such acts of brutality.Collection: Sports
Were all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.Collection: Sports
When you are through trying to improve, you are through.Collection: Sports
I enjoyed watching good-looking idiots looking at each other. A great spectator sport.Collection: Sports
Business and investing are team sports.Collection: Sports
You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".Collection: Sports
Winning isn't everything, but striving to win is.Collection: Sports
I have as many good friends in the media as anybody in sports has. It's just that I probably have a hell of a lot more enemies than anybody else.Collection: Sports
I'm not sure sports writing is an art.Collection: Sports
Writing was far more of an art in the sports world than it is now.Collection: Sports