5,260 Quotes About Sports

  • Author Pete Rose
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    You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.

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  • Author Pete Rose
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    Can you be a nicer gentleman, or a better man for your sport or your kids than Joe Paterno?

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  • Author Rick Reilly
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    Exactly how intricate a sport is jogging? You were two years old. You ran after the cat. You pretty much had it mastered

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  • Author Rick Reilly
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    It's people stories that make good reading. I don't feel like I'm a sportswriter. I feel like I'm a guy who writes about people who happen to do sports. The best columns are the ones where you tie it somehow into the fabric of the country.

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  • Author Rick Riordan
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    You have to read a lot so you know what good writing looks like and you get inspired. You have to write a lot because it's like a sport - you have to practice. And, also, you have to persevere. Don't give up. I got rejected on my first book, like, 14 times, but I just kept going. So believe in yourself and don't give up.

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