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I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.
Bud Selig / Commissioner Of Baseball
Jobs
Sports
Football
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Have a good physical outlet of some sport or exercise. Overcome evil with good. You can overcome many evil inclinations through good physical exertion and healthful activities. A healthy soul...is in better condition to overthrow the devil.
Ezra Taft Benson / Farmer
Sports
Evil
Exercise
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I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slopestyle skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.
Nick Goepper / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Summer
Winter
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I still get a lot of letters from kids and parents who face different challenges and disabilities. I share some of the lessons that I learned through sports and baseball, which makes me feel good. It's incredible to have an impact that way.
Jim Abbott / Olympic Athlete
Kids
Sports
Baseball
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The main thing is media attention which is good publicity for the sport. As I'm the only women in this championship I would like to think that it encourages other young females to get into it. Also the media helps me in getting sponsorship.
Liz Halliday /
Sports
Media
Thinking
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Every day the word 'gift' is used to define talent, ability, and performance. Being gifted has an even deeper meaning, a meaning that isn't always measured in points per game or win/loss records - it's measured by heart, effort, and desire.
Alan Cohen / Writer
Success
Sports
Heart
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When I was in elementary school, we weren't allowed to do sports other than cheerleading. By junior high, they let us play, but we had to come back after 6:30 p.m. to practice because there was only one gymnasium and the boys used it first.
Jackie Joyner-Kersee / Olympic Athlete
Sports
Cheerleading
Elementary School
Junior High
Practice
School
Allowed
Elementary
Gymnasium
Junior
Let Us
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This is a time when the United States should be standing tall. There is no other leader in the world today. We shouldn't be approaching conflicts as a team sport. We either get in an we lead and we do a good job, or you don't get in at all.
Jon Huntsman, Jr. / Former Governor Of Utah
Jobs
Sports
Good Job
Standing
Team
Time Good Today
Approaching
Conflicts
Sport
Team Sport
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Whether the guys are nervous or just had mental breakdowns, it happens. The game is a game of mistakes. And how you deal with them and correct them and all the things like that is what makes this game great and makes hockey the sport it is.
Chris Pronger / Ice Hockey Player
Sports
Hockey
Mistake
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I think sports are very beneficial in the fight against obesity. I remember playing little league - I was the best person on the pitch by a long shot. It was only last weekend actually, I think I have some photos of it if you're interested.
Zach Braff / Actor
Sports
Fighting
Thinking
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I always approached the sport from a more cerebral, analytical point of view, a management perspective. I was taking all business classes there at Georgetown, I really enjoyed that. I always sort of looked at football from that perspective.
Pete Lembo /
Sports
Class
Football
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Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.
Bear Bryant / Football Player
Sports
Guy
Years
Years Ago
Time Good Day
Dr
Quit
Realized
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The boys are so powerful off of the baseline now that they don't have to come to the net to finish points. That's the reason we went to the net. To finish the point. Nowadays, even the big guys can hit winners four feet behind the baseline.
Boris Becker / Tennis Player
Sports
Boys
Powerful
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People forget that I'm a human being, just because I play a sport that everybody loves. We're human. We're not invincible. We share the same feelings and emotions that people on the outside feel. I don't think people really understand that.
Terrell Owens / Football Player
Sports
Invincible
Play
Thinking
Emotions
Loves
Human Being
People Feelings Feel
Just Because
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It could happen to anyone when you get hired by a different president. There's a difference in philosophies. It happens. It's a change in CEOs. They have their own people, their own philosophies, and it's different than what Bob stands for.
Rick Pitino / Basketball Coach
Sports
Bob
Differences
Philosophy
Ceos
Philosophies
Stands
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The first Tuesday of November, every year it is the same Every Aussie heart is beating with the excitement of the game For they bet on dream or fancy or the forms they've followed up From a dollar up to thousands on the famous Melbourne Cup
Slim Dusty / Singer-Songwriter
Dream
Sports
Heart
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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
George Bernard Shaw / Playwright
Sports
Fighting
Heart
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I missed being considered an athlete and having that competitive drive, and missed having something to work for every day. I'd taken two and a half years away from the sport and was out of shape. I wanted to get back to where I was in 2008.
Shawn Johnson / Gymnast
Sports
Athlete
Taken
Considered
Work Day Drive
Competitive
Sport
Half Years
Missed
Shape
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Movies, TV, sports, come and go, but what you stand for is what people remember. Mandela, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy are people who really stood for something and were willing to die for it. You don't see a whole lot of that any more.
Christopher Judge / Actor
Kings
Sports
John Kennedy
Luther
People
Come And Go
John
Mandela
Martin Luther King
Stood
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The body needs the rejuvenation that comes from exercise. Walking in the fresh air can be exhilarating and refreshing. Properly directed running can also have some beneficial effects. Simple sit-ups or sports activities can also be helpful.
Ezra Taft Benson / Farmer
Running
Sports
Exercise
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If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work.
Caitlyn Jenner /
Sports
Games
Hard Work
Life Is Hard
Reader
Life Work Hard Work
Life Work Sports
Ahead
Easily
Won
Realized
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I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
Roland Emmerich / Film Director
Sports
Hollywood
People
Thinking
Movies Always Better
Affects
Movies Better People
Sport
Explain
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We could not be more proud to have LeBron James as part of our Lakers family. He is an incredibly thoughtful and intelligent leader and clearly appreciates the power sports has to unite communities and inspire the world to be a better place.
Jeanie Buss /
Sports
Better Place
Inspire
Intelligent
Lakers
Proud
Thoughtful
Appreciates
Clearly
Communities
Lebron
Incredibly
James
Lebron James
Unite
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I would say go for it because it is a fantastic job. It's a wonderful opportunity to go and get involved with sport at whatever level. What I would say is, if you can, go and work with your local radio station covering local sporting events.
Jill Douglas / Presenter
Jobs
Opportunity
Sports
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Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.
Les Carlyon / Writer
Sports
Hero
Passion
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Some persons have lived manly or womanly lives, and they lack but one thing - open confession of the Lord Jesus Christ. Some men think that they must come to him in a certain way - that they must be stirred by emotion or something like that.
Billy Sunday / Evangelist
Jesus
Men
Sports
Christ
Confession
Emotion
Jesus Christ
Lord
Lord Jesus Christ
Manly
One Thing
Persons
Womanly
Certain Way
Lord Jesus
Some Men
Stirred
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Basketball gave me a lot, which is why I want to stay connected with this sport later on, maybe working with young people. But it would be more in the background. Being in the spotlight was never really my thing. I never wanted to be famous.
Dirk Nowitzki / Basketball Player
Sports
Basketball
People
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As I've said, basketball has been, I think, a real cooperative venture. There have been a lot of people that have been involved in it: coaches, administrators - not recently - fans and nobody, nobody any more so than students over the years.
Bobby Knight / Basketball Coach
Sports
Administrators
Basketball
Coaches
Involved
Real
Venture
Cooperative
Recently
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The Morrigan’s ideas of sport and mine varied widely. As a Chooser of the Slain, she tends to enjoy nothing so much as a protracted war. She hangs out with Kali and the Valkyries and they have a death goddesses’ night out on the battlefield.
Kevin Hearne / Novelist
Sports
War
Night
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Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.
Olga Korbut / Gymnast
Sports
Gymnastics
Nineteen
Olympic Games
Skinny
Strong
Somewhere
Total
Olympic
Seventy
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Folks have a common misconception that Mississippi is strictly a rural, outdoors state. While we are famous for our hunting, sport fishing and year-round golf, we also have leading manufacturers like Peavey Electronics and Viking Range Corp.
Gregg Harper / U.s. Representative
Sports
Electronics
Fishing
Golf
Hunting
Misconception
Mississippi
Range
Year Round
Leading
Manufacturers
Outdoors
Strictly
Rural
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I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose weight. And I've never taken up a sport just because it was a social fad. I really enjoy playing. It is a vital part of my life.
Dinah Shore / Singer
Sports
Mean
Taken
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During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that won maybe had three, but today they have a lot of depth. They have a lot of long relievers, short relievers, and the strategy is different.
Ernie Banks / Baseball Player
Sports
Depth
My Time
Pitcher
Strategy
Team
Two
Time Today Long
Won
Pitchers
Teams
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I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.
Dennis Eckersley / Baseball Player
Sports
Nice
Team
Unbalanced
More And More
Schedule
Teams
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I'm at the depot, and I'm not going anywhere. That's better to deal with than having to deal with the unknown. And the unknown is they don't want to fail. They don't want to pay the price unless there's a guarantee they're going to get there
Mark Spitz / Swimmer
Sports
Guarantees
Pay The Price
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
Garry Marshall / Actor
Sports
Bed
Bronx
Candy
Growing Up
Moments
Rip
Tape
Wall
Bring
Candy Store
Cover
Front
Grab
Happiest
Jump
Magazine
Store
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I got into [acting] so late because of sports. And then when I was in grad school, I sort of got lulled into basically forgetting I was black, in - meaning that everyone you play at a conservatory, 95 percent of the characters are non-black.
Mahershala Ali / Actor
Sports
Character
School
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I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight. We're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.
Anthony Pettis / Mixed Martial Artist
Sports
Fighting
Wrestling
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I took group lessons at a rink near my home. We first had to learn how to stand up on the ice wearing skates. Eventually we learned to move forward, but soon found out that it was not that easy to stop! So that was our next important lesson.
Nancy Kerrigan / Figure Skater
Home
Sports
Ice
Moving
Skates
Eventually
Wearing
Important Lesson
Lesson
Move Forward
Near
Rink
Stand Up
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
Latrell Sprewell / Basketball Player
Sports
Dirty
Honestly
Laundry
Meetings
Thinking
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If you attempt to talk with a dying man about sports or business, he is no longer interested. He now sees other things as more important. People who are dying recognize what we often forget, that we are standing on the brink of another world.
William Law / Writer
Men
Sports
People
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I don't like sports where it's like, you watch a guy on a motorcycle flip or something, then another guy does it, it looks exactly the same, and then at the end one guy gets higher points! It seems so arbitrary; I don't know who's ahead ever.
Norm Macdonald / Comedian
Sports
Arbitrary
Flip
Higher
Looks
Motorcycle
Ahead
Exactly
Exactly The Same
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Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.
Payne Stewart / Golfer
Sports
Football
Golf
Long Time
Precedence
Series
World Series
Time Always World
Be True
Brought
Time Football World
Greatest Thing
Tiger
Tour
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Building a sports power is a patriotic undertaking aimed at translating into reality the plan and wish of the great leaders, who devoted their efforts to building ours into a country that prospers and grows stronger on the strength of sports.
Kim Jong-Un / Supreme Leader Of North Korea
Sports
Devoted
Grows
Patriotic
Reality
Stronger
Wish
Efforts
Great Leaders
Ours
Plan
Prospers
Translating
Undertaking
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When it comes to losing with United, I feel solely responsible for it. I can't help it. My brain will work like mad after a defeat. I want to know where I have made the wrong decisions, how I could have changed things for this fantastic club.
Ruud Van Nistelrooy / Footballer
Sports
Decision
Defeat
Losing
Mad
Decisions
Solely
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The trick with hip-hop-hip-hop is a sport. The only music that's really, really close to a sport. It starts off, "My DJ's better than yours. I can out-rap you, I can out-dance you, my graffiti piece is better than you." It's very competitive.
Ice T / Rapper
Sports
Hip Hop
Rap
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While the liberal media elite depict the bowler as a chubby guy with a comb-over and polyester pants, the reality is that bowling is one of the most tech-heavy sports today. Robotic pinsetters and computerized scoring were just the beginning.
Chris Hardwick / Comedian
Sports
Media
Pants
Reality
Bowler
Chubby
Computerized
Depict
Elite
Liberal
Polyester
Robotic
Scoring
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That's what makes the Ryder Cup in golf so much better than the Masters or the U.S. Open. To be a part of something that is not about personal achievement, but about representing everyone and sharing it with the whole country, it's wonderful.
Scott Hamilton / Figure Skater
Sports
Achievement
Country
Golf
Masters
Personal Achievement
Representing
Cup
Sharing
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I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
Jay Leno / Comedian
Sports
Basketball
Football
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My biggest pet peeve are just girls who go to sports bars who have no intention on caring what teams are playing, like they're looking for just a night out. That drives me more crazy than anything else. Like, don't pretend to be a sports fan.
Jerry Ferrara / Actor
Girl
Pet
Sports
Bars
Caring
Intention
Sports Fan
Team
Anything Else
Biggest
Fan
Pretend
Drives
No Intention
Teams
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