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Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.
Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport.
Every single model wants to be in Sports Illustrated, and I feel extremely blessed to have that opportunity.
I kind of picked up the game at an early age. The way that other kids would learn what a fork or a spoon is.
We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.
Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies.
Tactics, fitness, stroke ability, adaptability, experience, and sportsmanship are all necessary for winning.
Cockfighting has always been my idea of a great sport -- two armed entrées battling to see who'll be dinner.
If there is one abiding theme in the gym, it's the withering work in the ring. Those not fit do not survive.
Coaches need to have the ability of tact - to teach the team to rub out mistakes rather than to rub them in.
Always have a plan and believe in it. I tell my coaches not to compromise. Nothing good happens by accident.
I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex
I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.
In so many ways, I just love athletics. It would be really hard for me to pivot outside of the sports world.
I have spoken to a whole group of millionaires, head executives at Microsoft. Boy did I chew those guys out.
Music is not like sports, where you can go and do a hundred reps in a gym and come out and be all buffed up.
I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.
Complacency is the forerunner of mediocrity. You can never work too hard on attitudes, effort and technique.
I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.
The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.
I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of love with the sport.
And when the pressure was on us, the team handled it very well. One has to learn to play well under pressure.
I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.
The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.
Life is very good. I'm the president and Chief Executive Officer of the Wireless trade association, the CTIA.
I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.
I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.
I'm sure once my career's over, when I look back when I'm older, I can maybe appreciate it a little bit more.
The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
I see a lot of people who love their jobs. I see some garbage collectors smiling as they go about their work.
Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
I can honestly say it took two full years for me to get over the fact that I was no longer a baseball player.
I was always into sports, and as a sportsperson, you need to be fit to survive and play from start to finish.
I told myself after 2008 that I was done for good. But they say you can't keep a gymnast away from her sport.
Skateboarding doesn't make you a skateboarder; not being able to stop skateboarding makes you a skateboarder.
Sport and health are so important to our nation that they deserve to be right at the front of people's minds.
I really believe this team has a lot of potential - whether it's this year or in years to come, I don't know.
Even bear-baiting was esteemed heathenish and unchristian: the sport of it, not the inhumanity, gave offence.
If Tiger Woods slamming his club into the ground is the biggest worry wehave, our sport isinprettygood shape.
Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.
The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.
Old age is when you resent the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated because there are fewer articles to read.