5,260 Quotes About Sports

  • Author Floyd Patterson
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    I always say that in order to appreciate warm weather, you must experience cold. I wouldn't change one thing - all the embarrassing moments, the defeats, all of everything - through all of this, I have learned me.

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  • Author Francois-Henri Pinault
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    Linguistics is a good way of defining the culture of a brand. The vocabulary used by sports and lifestyle brands - running, fitness, training, motorsports - is all about functionality, whereas the vocabulary of the luxury business - handbags, ready-to-wear - is all about the product.

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  • Author Fred Perry
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    To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.

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  • Author Frederik Pohl
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    I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport.

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  • Author Gary Player
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    The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, There's a star. The first time I saw Jack Nicklaus, I said, Superstar. I feel the same way about Tiger Woods.

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  • Author George Plimpton
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    At the base of it was the urge, if you wanted to play football, to knock someone down, that was what the sport was all about, the will to win closely linked with contact.

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  • Author George Plimpton
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    It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

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