5,260 Quotes About Sports

  • Author Curtis Granderson
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    Basketball was always my sport. It just took me until my second year of college for me to realize that I was a better baseball player than a basketball player. But basketball was always my number one love. Finally found out I was better at baseball and chose to pursue that route.

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  • Author Dan Gable
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    Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

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  • Author Curt Gowdy
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    Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been good enough for me. That and the hundreds of treasured memories I have of this wonderful sport.

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  • Author Dan Gable
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    More endearingly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self control and pride.

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  • Author Dan Gable
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    Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant motion without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.

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  • Author Dave Grohl
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    I think maybe people see bands and musicians as some sort of superhero unrealistic sport that happens in another dimension where it's not real people and not real emotions. So, I grew up listening to Beatles records on my floor. That's how I learned how to play guitar. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be a musician.

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  • Author David Gergen
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    We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.

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