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| Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life. | | Joe Namath | |
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| Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose. | | Winston Churchill | |
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| Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. | | A. A. Milne | |
| I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. | | Will Rogers | |
| I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA. | | Shaquille O'Neal | |
| If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work. | | William Shakespeare | |
| If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. | | Doug Larson | |
| If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them. | | Yogi Berra | |
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| In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this. | | Wilson Mizner | |
| People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society. | | Vince Lombardi | |
| Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. | | George Orwell | |
| The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or in defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment.. | | Bruce Lee | |
| The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time. | | Vince Lombardi | |
| There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games. | | Ernest Hemingway | |
| To brag little - to show well - to crow gently, if in luck - to pay up, to own up, and to shut up, if beaten, are the virtues of a sporting man | | Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
| We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it | | John Fitzgerald Kennedy | |
