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Muhammad Ali Quotes

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“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
“Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them – a desire, a dream, a vision.”
“He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.”
“I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.”
“Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.”
“I know where I’m going and I know the truth, and I don’t have to be what you want me to be. I’m free to be what I want.”
“It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.”
“If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.”
“When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.”

“A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.”
“It’s not bragging if you can back it up.”
“The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.”
“Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.”
“What keeps me going is goals.”
“Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.”
“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
“I’ll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.”
“I never thought of losing, but now that it’ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.”
“I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.”

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Tennis Quotes

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:31:54 +0000

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past – a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world. ~Jacques Barzun
I have always considered tennis as a combat in an arena between two gladiators who have their racquets and their courage as their weapons. ~Yannick Noah
Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it’s everything. ~Author Unknown
Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go. ~Russell Lynes
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed. ~Billie Jean King
Good shot, bad luck, and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be slightly amplified. ~Virginia Graham, Say Please, 1949
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ~Hugo L. Black
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. ~Rod Laver
The serve was invented so that the net could play. ~Bill Cosby
Though your game is hardly the best
You can fray your opponent’s nerves
By methodically bouncing the ball
At least ten times before your serves.
~Arnold J. Zarett
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. ~Nat Hentoff
But that won’t give me a free hand to hold the beer. ~Billy Carter, while being taught a two-handed backhand shot

The primary conception of tennis is to get the ball over the net and at the same time to keep it within bounds of the court; failing this, within the borders of the neighborhood. ~Elliot Chaze
A perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility. ~Billie Jean King, about tennis
Tennis begins with love. ~Author Unknown
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be “sorry” and admiration of each other’s play crosses the net as frequently as the ball. ~J.M. Barrie
Tennis is not a gentle game. Psychologically, it is vicious. That people are only just beginning to come to terms with this fact illustrates just how big a con trick has been perpetrated on the non-playing tennis public – and even a few players, usually losing players – for decades. ~Richard Evans
The cunning competitor plays on the other party’s guilt. Continuously praise your opponent’s shots, and you’ll notice how he begins to press. Self-beratement also serves to balance a guilty conscience for being successful and makes your opponent disturbed for upsetting you so. If on occasion you call one of your opponent’s “out” shots “in,” then later on you can innocently call an “in” shot “out” on a crucial play. Practice saying “Good try,” sincerely; then you can call a lot of close shots “out” and get away with it. ~Theodor Saretsky
Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes. Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards. ~Eugene Scott
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe. ~Elliot Chaze
It’s difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it’s just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines. ~Virginia Wade
It’s one-on-one out there, man. There ain’t no hiding. I can’t pass the ball. ~Pete Sampras

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Wrestling Quotes

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“often immitated, but never duplicated!”
- Captain Lou Albano
“When’s the last time you went into a barber shop and saw everyone there unconsious?”
- Bobby H on Beefcake
“Does the tounge hanging out help his balance?”
- Roddy Piper
“To be that man, you’ve got to beat the man. Woooo!”
- Ric Flair
“Win if you can, lose is you must, but ALWAYS cheat!”
- Jesse Ventura
“Ric Flair, you once called me a woman. Well, what I want to know is, how does it feel to get beat by a woman?”
- Roddy Piper
“Nature Boy, whats that? Do you run around the forest like Euell
Gibbons, eating bark or something?”
- Roddy Piper on Flair’s nickname
“Whether you like it or not, learn to love it, because its the
best thing going. Wooooo!”
- Ric Flair
“Real men wear kilts.”
- Roddy Piper
“The pleasure was all yours.”
- Jesse Ventura

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Horse Racing Quotes

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“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet.”
- Damon Runyon
“The only decent people I ever saw at the racecourse were horses.”
- James Joyce
“Never bet on a sure thing unless you can afford to lose.”
- Anonymous
“A horse gallops with his lungs,
Perseveres with his heart,
And wins with his character.”
- Tesio
“A Horse! A Horse! my kingdom for a horse!”
- Shakespeare
“If you want a kitten, start out asking for a horse.”
- Unknown
“You can lead a horse to manure but you can’t make him drink.”
- Unknown
“Horses just naturally have mohawk haircuts.”
- Unknown
“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy
“Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they’ll both win for you.”
- Elizabeth Arden
“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
- Benjamin Franklin
“If you cut a dog’s head off, you get 25 hours bad luck. It is bad luck to kill a pegasus, unicorn,
horse, or similar, if it is pure white in colour. (Followers of Dark and Death tend to disregard this).”
“I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.”
- Woody Allen
“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
- W C Fields
“Look not a gift horse in the mouth.”
- Unknown
If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come back a horse.
- Thomas Fuller

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Athletics Quotes

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I have observed in women of her type a tendency to regard all athletics as an inferior form of fox hunting.
Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall (1928)
Italian men and Russian women don’t shave before a race.
Eddie Ottoz
On a report which revealed today’s youth put sex as their number one sport- It seems today’s youngsters have one-track minds. Unfortunately it’s not the athletics track.
Anon spokesman (1994)
On being asked if there would be any late night goings-on during the Olympics -I certainly hope so.
Kate Schmidt
On his success in the Superstars TV programme -1 still think I could be the best pole vaulter in Britain, but I’m in danger of falling between two stools.
Brian Hooper (1982)
On Sing-Sing Prison’s athletics day- We do not have cross-country and we do not have pole-vaulting.
Gerald Curtin
On the £20,000 Mercedes prizes for each winner at the World Athletics Championships in Stuttgart- Anyone good enough to win already has one.
Michael Johnson (1993)
The French cannot produce great track-and-field teams like they can produce great wines for probably that reason: the winemakers got in first.
Michael Lourie (1980)
They may have helped Linford Christie shave a millisecond or-two off his personal best but not everyone is Linford Christie. And contour-hugging cycle shorts can cruelly expose anyone whose performance falls an inch or two short of an all-comers’ record. You need a full kitbag to get away with this particular garb. That might explain why so many men wear their cycle shorts under their regular strip.
Richard Littlejohn Punch (1992)

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Snooker Quotes

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Can Bill Webenuik be the second Canadian to rewrite the history books
Ted Lowe
This young man Jimmy White celebrated his 22nd birthday literally four days ago
Ted Lowe
I like playing in Sheffield, it’s full of melancholy happy go lucky people
Alex Higgins
John Spencer can’t really afford to go 5-1 down at such an early stage
Jack Karneham
Alex,unlike many other professionals, adds a bit on his cue rather than put on an extension
Ted Lowe
And Griffiths has looked at that blue four times now, and it still hasn’t moved
Ted Lowe
After 12 frames they stand all square. The next frame, believe it or not, is the 13th
David Vine
But there was still the big prize money, hanging there like a carrot waiting to be picked
David Vine
He’s 40 points behind and there’s only 51 points left on the table
Ted Lowe
Now that cue arm, now in perfect rhythm with his thinking
John Pullman
He has to stay level, or one frame behind, that’s the only way he can beat him
Dennis Taylor
That’s inches away from being millimetre perfect
Ted Lowe
Well it seams at the moment as if the pockets are as big as goal posts for Willie Thorne
John Pullman

The formalities are now over and it’s doen to business, Steve Davis now adjusting his socks
Ted Lowe
Steve, with his sip of water, part of his make-up
Ted Lowe
Well, the shot would have been safe if the red hadn’t ended up over the pocket
Ted Lowe
Steve Davis is trailing by one frame, so the pressure is balanced on him
Rex Harris
He’s obviously worked out for himself that he doesn’t need that last red, great thinker this man
Dennis Taylor
And Jimmy’s potting literally doing the commentary here
Ted Lowe
He’s completely disappeared. He’s gone back to his dressing room, nobody knows where he has gone.
Ted Lowe
99 times out of a 1000 he would have potted that ball
Ted Lowe
The match has gradually and suddenly come to a climax
David Vine
He’s lucky in one sense and lucky in the other
Ted Lowe
Oh and that’s a brilliant shot. The odd thing is his mum’s not very keen on snooker
Ted Lowe
Higgins first entered the Championship ten years ago, that was for the first time, of course
Ted Lowe
Just enough points here for Tony to pull the cat out of the fire
Ray Edmonds
And it is my guess that Steve Davis will try to score as many points as he can this frame
Ted Lowe
Tony Meo beginning to find his potting boots
Rex Williams
Suddenly Alex Higgins was 7-0 down
David Vine
When you start off it’s nil-nil
Steve Davis
Steve Davis has a tough consignment in front of him
Ted Lowe
From this position you’ve got to fancy either yourself or your opponent winning
Kirk Stevens

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Baseball Quotes

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You see, 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. ~Jim Bouton, Ball Four, 1970
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base. ~Dave Barry
People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ~Rogers Hornsby
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ~Ted Williams
I’m convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile. ~Tom Clark
A good cigar is like a beautiful chick with a great body who also knows the American League box scores. ~M*A*S*H, Klinger, “Bug-Out,” 1976
A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz. ~Humphrey Bogart
You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too. ~Roy Campanella
No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined. ~Paul Gallico

There are three things in my life which I really love: God, my family, and baseball. The only problem – once baseball season starts, I change the order around a bit. ~Al Gallagher, 1971
A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings. ~Earl Wilson
Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up. ~Bob Lemon
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game…. There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability. ~George Bernard Shaw
I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism. Tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set. Repair these losses, and be a blessing to us. ~Walt Whitman
Baseball is a fun game. It beats working for a living. ~Phil Linz
When they start the game, they don’t yell, “Work ball.” They say, “Play ball.” ~Willie Stargell, 1981
Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball – you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ~Nomar Garciaparra
I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby
When you’re in a slump, it’s almost as if you look out at the field and it’s one big glove. ~Vance Law

With those who don’t give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I can’t think of anything to say to them. ~Art Hill
That’s baseball, and it’s my game. Y’ know, you take your worries to the game, and you leave ‘em there. You yell like crazy for your guys. It’s good for your lungs, gives you a lift, and nobody calls the cops. Pretty girls, lots of ‘em. ~Humphrey Bogart
When we played softball, I’d steal second base, feel guilty and go back. ~Woody Allen
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball. ~Jim Murray
Baseball is the only sport I know that when you’re on offense, the other team controls the ball. ~Ken Harrelson, Sports Illustrated, 6 September 1976
Good pitching will beat good hitting any time, and vice versa. ~Bob Veale, 1966
Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don’t like it when someone’s stuffing it into you by the gallon. That’s what it feels like when Nolan Ryan’s thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson
Strikeouts are boring – besides that, they’re fascist. Throw some ground balls. More democratic. ~From the movie Bull Durham

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Cricket Quotes

admin — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:55:00 +0000

“Cricket is basically baseball on valium.”
- Robin Williams
“Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen”
- Robert Mugabe
“It (cricket) requires one to assume such indecent postures”
- Oscar Wilde
“Many Continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game”
- George Mikes
“I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth – certainly greater than sex, although sex isn’t too bad either”
- Harold Pinter
“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base – in both senses – greed”
- John Fowles
“Far from all resort of mirth, / Save the cricket on the hearth!”
- John Milton
“Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.”
- Patrick Leigh Fermor
“When I began to use my cricket, the first man I met in the darkness I thought was a German until he cricketed. We threw our arms around each other, and from that moment I knew we had won the war.”
- Gen Maxwell D. Taylor
“The best way to get away from a crisis and yet hold on the reins without performance is to find a godfather who would save you at crisis and fool the entire world…This is how it has worked for me”
- Sourav Ganguly

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Pele Quotes

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“Enthusiasm is everything. It must be taut and vibrating like a guitar string.”
“I’ve come to accept that the life of a frontrunner is a hard one, that he will suffer more injuries than most men and that many of these injuries will not be accidental.”
“Everything is practice.”
“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.”
“For 20 years they have been asking me the same question, who is the greatest? Maradona or Pele? I reply that all you have to do is look at the facts – how many goals did he score with his right foot or with his head?”
“He is the best in the world right now, … Without a doubt, he is the player who gives [Brazilians] the most joy.”
“I’m worried with this front-runner status, … We have had several examples of teams that were heavy favorites … but ended losing.”
“the most talented kid we’ve ever seen at that age.”
“For me it’s a proud moment to be here today,”
“it is encouraging to hear that men of great ability themselves think that we have talent in our ranks.”
“It helps a lot, … We get a jump start and get to know everything and be together as a team when a lot of teams aren’t.”

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