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You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Sports is the ultimate escape, the ultimate in reality programming. It's true drama. You really don't know what's going to happen.
Sport, which mimics the language and emotional intensity of war but eliminates the fatal destruction, may be a form of redemption.
We are very focused this time and our preparation has been better. We maybe made one or two mistakes last time, but not this time.
There is only a relationship between music and sports because all athletes want to be rappers and all rappers want to be athletes.
We all work together to pump each other up. Before the show [Aladdin], we give each other a pound on the back, like a sports team.
Lance Armstrong is not the biggest fraud in the history of world sport. US Postal was not the most sophisticated doping programme.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
In the Soviets' view, chess was not merely an art or a science or even a sport; it was what it had been invented to simulate: war.
The water cooler conversation in every job I've had is sports, it's what did you do this weekend, it's how are your parents doing.
Technically I don't play sports because I have two left feet and I cannot coordinate and my motor skills are a bit 'out of whack.'
If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have.
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.
Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.
Football is a team sport and not an individual sport. We win as a team, and every individual is better if we are part of the team.
If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.
We live in an age where... Christian bashing is a popular indoor sport; and films mocking Jesus Christ are considered avant-garde.
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.
Isn't cricket supposed to be a team sport? I feel people should decide first whether cricket is a team game or an individual sport.
Champions are champions not because they do anything extraordinary but because they do the ordinary things better than anyone else.
I believe that the obsessive worship of movie, TV and sports figures is less likely to produce spiritual gain than praying to Thor.
I actually had a Bobby Orr action figure. You could put the pads on him and skates and all that. I was 7, and he was still playing.
I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the time the answer is NO.
I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.
You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.
I never really did Christmas before. Christmas Day? I mean - what's that? What's it all about? I was always flying on Christmas Day
You have people telling you how good you are and all of a sudden, you might start believing it and forget what it takes to be good.
I succeed on my own personal motivation, dedication, and commitment. My mindset is: If I'm not out there training, someone else is.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.
Play your heart out each game, so you can look your teammates in the eyes and ask, without saying it, 'I played full out, did you?'
When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.
Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.
I think an athlete should be honest. I know it's difficult, but if a guy knocked me on my can, I couldn't very well say, I slipped.
First off, do everything they can to give their kids the opportunities to play sports; asthma is not a deterrent to playing sports.
It is hard to compete with other sports. Badminton is a sport which, when compared with football and tennis, still needs promotion.
I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.
My instinct was to win, eliminate anyone who is in competition, destroy my enemy and move on without any kind of hesitation at all.
You don't know where a sport can take you, so I want to make sure that I have an education behind me in case things don't work out.
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
I have had quite a few injuries during my time and if you are not injured in this sport [bodybuilding], you are not doing anything.
I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggguulliing...We're looking to make a noise now and ... I wanna kiss you!
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
The hitter asks the owner to give him a big raise so he can go somewhere he's never been, and the owner says "You mean third base?"
Sports and music are the same thing to me. When done wrong, they are really frustrating; when done right, they can change your day.
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.