5,260 Quotes About Sports

  • Author Neil Simon
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    Talent is the gift plus the passion - a desire to succeed so intense that no force on earth can stop it.

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  • Author Nevil Shute
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    If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which put your life in danger from time to time. It breeds a saneness in dealing with day to day trivialities which probably cannot be got in any other way, and a habit of quick decisions.

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  • Author Nick Saban
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    In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

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  • Author Nicola Sturgeon
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    Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

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  • Author Nigel Short
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    Unlike my esteemed colleague Garry Kasparov, I don't restrict the strength of opposition to Elo

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  • Author O. J. Simpson
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    I had one fight in my adult life. I had the famous '89 fight with Nicole, which she admits that she initiated the physical part.

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