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Sports have a unique power to inspire, challenge, and unite people across cultures and generations. The words of athletes, coaches, and thinkers often capture the dedication, resilience, and passion that define competition. The following quotes reflect the spirit of sports and the lessons they teach both on and off the field.    ◀ Back
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I was also proud. Wow. We got under the skin of the president of the United States. I was grateful. Even though he disagreed with us, he turned it into a worldwide conversation. Maybe he wasn’t willing to have a discussion with us about what we were protesting and why it mattered. No beer summit for us. But his comments did allow for us to go global with the problems of racial inequality in this country.
- Michael Bennett
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
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The sports, industry, trade, economy technology and science and waiting for your manifestation
- Sunday Adelaja
No One Is Better Than You
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No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
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Zoe, I--Oh, God!" he shouted, clutching his chest and stumbling back.

"What?" she asked, looking around anxiously as she clutched a large brown muffin against her chest.

With a shaky hand, he pointed at the offending item that she dared bring into his house. "What the hell is that?"

She looked down and frowned. "My muffin?"

"How could you?" he demanded hoarsely as he shook his head in disgust.

"What the hell are you freaking out about?" she demanded, looking around again.

"That shirt!" he said, pointing wildly towards the Red Sox shirt that she dared to wear in his presence. "What the hell were you thinking?
- R.L. Mathewson
Perfection
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Boxing day will never be the same now that Muhammed Ali is gone.
- Edw. C. Young
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If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
- Bill Shankly
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The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.
- Anna Kessel
Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
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I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.
- Michael Brewer
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You tell me it's the institution.
Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Don't you know it's gonna be all right?
- John Lennon, MBE (1940-1980)
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What I hadn't expected was to be blindsided by a history lesson that betrayed every hard-won experience I'd had as a player and now a coach at the same school I'd attended. . . Whoever was responsible for sending a championship team into virtual obscurity was either a serious egomaniac or just plain mean. It stung.

After all, wasn't the story told at today's funeral the stuff of legacies? Of school lore passed on to the next class, and the next, building institutional pride as well as magical identities that made every kid in the state want to play there?
- Jo Kadlecek
When Girls Became Lions
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When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.
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Choose the body in which to dwell.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
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You will boost your productivity with active exercise.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
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I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start would be for you to stop pointing out how flawed he is and start looking for the good in him.
- Melissa Cutler
Undefeated
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Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.
- Michael Sokolove
Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
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In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.
- David McCullough
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
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Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.
- David Peace
The Damned Utd
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The more you practice the better you'll be, the harder you train the great in you they'll see.
- Alcurtis Turner
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That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)
- Laurie Halse Anderson
The Impossible Knife of Memory
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Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room.
It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed for physical education class at TAHS, so there was no need to shower, anyway.
Well, impossible for me, considering that, in the past, whenever a volleyball or whatever came near me,
I’d always make sure to step calmly away to avoid it.
See? No sweat. No need for a shower. Problem solved.
- Meg Cabot
Being Nikki
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Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.
- Matthew Heines
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I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
- Pat Conroy
South of Broad
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You settle for less, you get less.
- Brandi L. Bates
Remains To Be Seen
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Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität
- Richard Branson
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I was also proud. Wow. We got under the skin of the president of the United States. I was grateful. Even though he disagreed with us, he turned it into a worldwide conversation. Maybe he wasn’t willing to have a discussion with us about what we were protesting and why it mattered. No beer summit for us. But his comments did allow for us to go global with the problems of racial inequality in this country.
- Michael Bennett
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sports, industry, trade, economy technology and science and waiting for your manifestation
- Sunday Adelaja
No One Is Better Than You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Zoe, I--Oh, God!" he shouted, clutching his chest and stumbling back.

"What?" she asked, looking around anxiously as she clutched a large brown muffin against her chest.

With a shaky hand, he pointed at the offending item that she dared bring into his house. "What the hell is that?"

She looked down and frowned. "My muffin?"

"How could you?" he demanded hoarsely as he shook his head in disgust.

"What the hell are you freaking out about?" she demanded, looking around again.

"That shirt!" he said, pointing wildly towards the Red Sox shirt that she dared to wear in his presence. "What the hell were you thinking?
- R.L. Mathewson
Perfection
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Boxing day will never be the same now that Muhammed Ali is gone.
- Edw. C. Young
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
- Bill Shankly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.
- Anna Kessel
Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.
- Michael Brewer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You tell me it's the institution.
Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Don't you know it's gonna be all right?
- John Lennon, MBE (1940-1980)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I hadn't expected was to be blindsided by a history lesson that betrayed every hard-won experience I'd had as a player and now a coach at the same school I'd attended. . . Whoever was responsible for sending a championship team into virtual obscurity was either a serious egomaniac or just plain mean. It stung.

After all, wasn't the story told at today's funeral the stuff of legacies? Of school lore passed on to the next class, and the next, building institutional pride as well as magical identities that made every kid in the state want to play there?
- Jo Kadlecek
When Girls Became Lions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Choose the body in which to dwell.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will boost your productivity with active exercise.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start would be for you to stop pointing out how flawed he is and start looking for the good in him.
- Melissa Cutler
Undefeated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.
- Michael Sokolove
Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.
- David McCullough
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.
- David Peace
The Damned Utd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more you practice the better you'll be, the harder you train the great in you they'll see.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)
- Laurie Halse Anderson
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room.
It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed for physical education class at TAHS, so there was no need to shower, anyway.
Well, impossible for me, considering that, in the past, whenever a volleyball or whatever came near me,
I’d always make sure to step calmly away to avoid it.
See? No sweat. No need for a shower. Problem solved.
- Meg Cabot
Being Nikki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.
- Matthew Heines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
- Pat Conroy
South of Broad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You settle for less, you get less.
- Brandi L. Bates
Remains To Be Seen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität
- Richard Branson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I was also proud. Wow. We got under the skin of the president of the United States. I was grateful. Even though he disagreed with us, he turned it into a worldwide conversation. Maybe he wasn’t willing to have a discussion with us about what we were protesting and why it mattered. No beer summit for us. But his comments did allow for us to go global with the problems of racial inequality in this country.
- Michael Bennett
Things That Make White People Uncomfortable
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sports, industry, trade, economy technology and science and waiting for your manifestation
- Sunday Adelaja
No One Is Better Than You
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
No Student can stand the Gruel of Sports Training unless she has a Passion for Fame.
- Vineet Raj Kapoor
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Zoe, I--Oh, God!" he shouted, clutching his chest and stumbling back.

"What?" she asked, looking around anxiously as she clutched a large brown muffin against her chest.

With a shaky hand, he pointed at the offending item that she dared bring into his house. "What the hell is that?"

She looked down and frowned. "My muffin?"

"How could you?" he demanded hoarsely as he shook his head in disgust.

"What the hell are you freaking out about?" she demanded, looking around again.

"That shirt!" he said, pointing wildly towards the Red Sox shirt that she dared to wear in his presence. "What the hell were you thinking?
- R.L. Mathewson
Perfection
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Boxing day will never be the same now that Muhammed Ali is gone.
- Edw. C. Young
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win
- Bill Shankly
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The mainstream media perpetuates the notion that women should focus entirely on a static image of a perfect body as the end goal. There are no messages about the process, the active body, how it makes us feel in that moment.
- Anna Kessel
Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I wish people had as much enthusiasm about unfucking the planet as they did about sports. Who wins on Sunday is pretty goddamned trivial compared to just about anything else.
- Michael Brewer
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You tell me it's the institution.
Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't going to make it with anyone anyhow.
Don't you know it's gonna be all right?
- John Lennon, MBE (1940-1980)
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
What I hadn't expected was to be blindsided by a history lesson that betrayed every hard-won experience I'd had as a player and now a coach at the same school I'd attended. . . Whoever was responsible for sending a championship team into virtual obscurity was either a serious egomaniac or just plain mean. It stung.

After all, wasn't the story told at today's funeral the stuff of legacies? Of school lore passed on to the next class, and the next, building institutional pride as well as magical identities that made every kid in the state want to play there?
- Jo Kadlecek
When Girls Became Lions
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When I see an arrogant man, I see one less competitor.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Choose the body in which to dwell.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You will boost your productivity with active exercise.
- Lailah Gifty Akita
Think Great: Be Great!
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start would be for you to stop pointing out how flawed he is and start looking for the good in him.
- Melissa Cutler
Undefeated
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.
- Michael Sokolove
Warrior Girls: Protecting Our Daughters Against the Injury Epidemic in Women's Sports
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.
- David McCullough
The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Age does not count. It’s what you know about football that matters.
- David Peace
The Damned Utd
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The more you practice the better you'll be, the harder you train the great in you they'll see.
- Alcurtis Turner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's such bullshit, Mythology repeated by parents because it lets them force their kids into sports and push them too hard by pretending that in the end it will pay off with the holy scholarship. You know how many kids get a free ride? Hardly any. Like, maybe fourteen.' -Finn (165)
- Laurie Halse Anderson
The Impossible Knife of Memory
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Forget about showering with my fellow students in Tribeca Alternative’s prison-style showers—one nozzle for four to six girls at a time—in the locker room.
It was impossible to work up a sweat during what passed for physical education class at TAHS, so there was no need to shower, anyway.
Well, impossible for me, considering that, in the past, whenever a volleyball or whatever came near me,
I’d always make sure to step calmly away to avoid it.
See? No sweat. No need for a shower. Problem solved.
- Meg Cabot
Being Nikki
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Wisdom of the Ages "Assault and Battery" Weather forecast for the St. Louis Rams next Sunday in Seattle.
- Matthew Heines
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I bet they love those games on Friday night more than they do segregation.
- Pat Conroy
South of Broad
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You settle for less, you get less.
- Brandi L. Bates
Remains To Be Seen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Mit Sport erhöht man die Produktivität
- Richard Branson
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
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