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“Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.”
― Tiger Woods

tags: fashion, golf, race, racial-profiling, sports

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“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
― Tim Daly

tags: adventure, challenge, danger, excitement, self, skiing, sports

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#3

“They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.”
― Wilt Chamberlain

tags: basketball, sports

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#4

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
― Hank Aaron

tags: baseball, golf, humor, sports

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#5

“Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.”
― Dave Barry, Dave Barry's Complete Guide to Guys

tags: humor, sports

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#6

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”
― Knute Rockne

tags: sports

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#7

“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
― Gordie Howe

tags: sports

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#8

“Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
― Satchel Paige

tags: sports

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#9

“As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. ”
― Michael Jordan

tags: sports

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#11

“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.”
― Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

tags: coaches, sports

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#13

“I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else.”
― J. Sterling, In Dreams

tags: hockey, love, sports

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#14

“If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.”
― Criss Jami, Killosophy

tags: academics, achievement, athletes, athletics, competition, confidence, enemies, enemies-and-opposition, fighting, improvement, mirrors, opposition, practice, practicing, pressure, reality, rivals, scrambling, searching, self, self-esteem, sports, striving, struggling, training, winning

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#15

“On the road we're somebody else's guests and we play in a way that they're
not going to forget we visited them.”
― Knute Rockne

tags: sports

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#16

“I didn't cry when they buried my father - I wouldn't let myself. I didn't cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.”
― Greg Garber

tags: death, life, sports, tennis

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#17

“[On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'"

(One On 1, interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1, March 25, 2007.)”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

tags: baseball, basketball, david-halberstam, julius-erving, professionalism, sports, work-ethic, writing

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#18

“Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

tags: friendship, language, sports, tarzan

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#19

“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ”
― Grantland Rice

tags: sports

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#20

“He's probably the only player who doesn't play for 10 months and, if he scores a hat trick in his first game back, no one would be surprised.”
― Ryan Whitney

tags: sports

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#21

“Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)”
― Bruce Boudreau, Gabby: Confessions of a Hockey Lifer

tags: sports, sports-coaches

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#22

“Things that aren't important, that have nothing to do with winning and losing, don't have to be a rule.”
― Peter Richmond, Badasses: The Legend of Snake, Foo, Dr. Death, and John Madden's Oakland Raiders

tags: coaching, football, motivation, sports

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#23

“Think of yourself as an athlete. I guarantee you it will change the way you walk, the way you work, and the decisions you make about leadership, teamwork, and success.”
― Mariah Burton Nelson, We Are All Athletes

tags: empowerment, empowerment-of-women, sports, women

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