Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings
- George Will
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Sport is like a war without the killing
- Ted Turner
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Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is
- Vince Lombardi
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Playing golf is like going to a strip joint.
After 18 holes you're tired and
most of your balls are missing
- Tim Allen
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The trouble with jogging is that by the time you realize you're not in shape for it,
it's too far to walk back
- Franklin Jones
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The secret to managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided
- Casey Stengel
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If you wouldn't do it in competition,
don't do it in practice
- Mahlon Moe
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Football isn't a matter of life or death; it's much more important than that
- Bill Shankly
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There comes a time when you'd rather injure your body than injure your pride
- Nike
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I skate to where the puck is going to be,
not to where it has been
- Wayne Gretzky
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Golf is a good walk spoiled
- Mark Twain
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There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot
- Steven Wright
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The reason most people play golf
is to wear clothes they would not
be caught dead in otherwise
- Roger Simon
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Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead
- Erma Bombeck
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Nobody in the game of football
should be called a genius.
A genius is somebody
like Norman Einstein
- Joe Theisman
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If winning isn't everything,
why do they keep score?
- Vince Lombardi
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It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose
- Darren Weinberg
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Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft
- Theodore Roosevelt
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A team with a star player is a good team, but a team without one is a great team
- Unknown
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I'm not afraid to fail because
I will not allow myself to fail
- Unknown
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A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever
- Mary Lou Retton
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You may not be the winner,
but there is a winner inside you
- Unknown
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The most important lesson you can learn from winning is that you can
- Dave Weinbaum
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People do not lack strength;
they lack will
- Victor Hugo
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Strive for excellence, not perfection
- Unknown
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The only one who can tell you 'you can't' is you. And you don't have to listen
- Nike
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Quitting is only a shortcut to losing
- Unknown
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My boyfriend said if I spend
one more weekend at the gym
he'll leave me ...
I'm sure gonna miss him
- Unknown
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The greatest test of courage on the earth is to bear defeat without losing heart
- Ingersoll
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Winners make goals, losers make excuses
- Unknown
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If you can't win, make the fellow ahead of you break the record
- Unknown
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Each day you don't practice is one more day you have to practice to get better
- Unknown
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I have never lost a race in my life.
Occasionally I have just run out of time
- Unknown
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The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you've lost
- George Shultz
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A winner is a loser who was willing to fail and get up, fail and get up, fail and get up,
fail and get up and win
- Peter Zafra
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Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desire, a dream, a vision. They have to have late minute stamina, they have to be a little faster, they have to have the skill and the will. But the will must be stronger than the skill
- Muhammed Ali
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Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with
the dignity that we absorbed the loss
- Doug Williams
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It does not matter how many times you get knocked down, but how many times you get up
- Vince Lombardi
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I always thought there was at least one person in the stands who had never seen me play, and I didn't want to let him down
- Joe Dimaggio
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Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did
- Newt Gingrich
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Sports are 90% inspiration
and 10% perspiration
- Johnny Miller
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Some people dream of success while others wake up and achieve it
- Unknown
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Winning isn't everything. Wanting to is
- Unknown
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Winners never quit, and quitters never win
- Unknown
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Tossed and Turned all night,
Slept through the alarm,
Was late for school,
Bombed the test,
Broke up with my boyfriend,
Played Volleyball,
Not a bad day!
- Unknown
(from William Ginn)
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