5,260 Quotes About Sports

  • Author Gay Talese
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    Sports is about people who lose and lose and lose. They lose games; then they lose their jobs. It can be very intriguing.

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  • Author Gordon Taylor
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    Footballers are an easy target. They are offered big lines of credit. Every sport is vulnerable; its such a big gambling industry, and there are problems with syndicates in other countries.

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  • Author Goh Chok Tong
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    New Singapore will be one of the world's finest, most liveable cities. Arts, theatres, museums, music and sports will flourish. Singapore will be a lively and exciting place.. Our city will not only have depth, but also the richness of diversity. But above all, Singapore will a home for Singaporeans.

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  • Author Graham Taylor
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    You go to Holland, France, Germany, every community, the tiniest village, they have magnificent, pristine sports facilities.

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  • Author Gregg Troy
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    I don't plan on being disappointed. We plan on being really good, and obviously we plan on winning.

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and panther, and some even of the hunter race, may still exist, and not be "civilized off the face of the earth," - our forests, not to hold the king's game merely, but to hold and preserve the king himself also, the lord of creation, - not for idle sport or food, but for inspiration and our own true re-creation?

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  • Author Henry David Thoreau
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    The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

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  • Author Herbert Beerbohm Tree
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    The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.

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