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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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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard
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No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.
- Eric Liddell
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My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan
- Eric Cantona
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If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the "coach" or "yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.
- John Hodgman
That is All
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There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.
- Randy Gardner
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Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.
- Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray
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Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question:

How much do we owe one another?

Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
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Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling - when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.
- Amit Ray
Enlightenment Step by Step
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
- Kirk Mango
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nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat
- Pliny the Younger
Letters, Volume II: Books 8–10. Panegyricus
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He wants to play major college football at a university far away, where nobody will know about his tragic family history. Then he wants to play in the NFL.

Every catch brings him closer to that reality. That's how he thinks of it, anyway. Every time he runs downfield, sees the ball in the air, and hears the defensive back laboring to catch up, whenever he feels that ball fall out of the sky and into his waiting hands, he inches closer to his goals.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
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In too many states, sports betting regulatory bodies have ceded control to gambling companies. These regulators are charged with managing sports betting and ensuring companies abide by the rules that the regulators put in place. In practice, they seem to see their mandate as getting out of companies’ way while ensuring sportsbooks meet the bare minimum requirements.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Every other addictive product that you can think of, government seeks to regulate its distribution and consumption,” Levant observes. Given gambling’s official classification as addictive, and especially the evidence about the habit-forming potential of online gambling, a public-health framework suggests the need for measures to protect consumers before they have the chance to harm themselves or someone else.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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The industry's version of 'responsible gaming' is designed to pull people from the river once they are drowning rather than requiring guardrails to make sports gambling products less dangerous,” Daynard, Gottlieb, and Levant wrote in 2022.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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With indications that Gen Z is less interested in watching football—and professional sports generally—as well as an overall decline in America’s broadcast TV habit, dark clouds appear on the horizon, revenue-wise. Gambling was both an infusion of money through partnerships, sponsorships, and data agreements and a way to bump ratings back up. Sure enough, average viewership for 2021–2023 was 17.2 million. As more Americans try their hand at sports betting—especially as more states legalize it—the NFL will rely on gamblers to keep its revenue arrow pointing upward. The league does not seem to mind if it becomes as normal to bet on football as it is to watch football.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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As philosopher Kent Dunnington explains, “persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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His cell phone in his pocket offered a near-constant reminder of his addiction. “The devil is in your hand,” he wrote in his journal.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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The sports gambling crisis could have been avoided if states had taken a more careful approach to legalization. Instead, entranced by promises of easy money, they went all in.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Stabbing people for fun stops being so fun when there are referees and scoreboards and rankings involved.
- Andrea Beatriz Arango
It's All or Nothing, Vale
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Oh, I’m sorry Dec, I forgot for five seconds that you played football in high school, I know you think that means you’re the only guy in town who knows how to throw a punch, but spare me your ego for once. Not everything has to be about you.
- Cosmo Knox
Under His Touch
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Holistinen tila on taidetta ja urheilua. Ei pyörääkään ihminen aja niin, että kädet ja jalat toimivat erikseen, ei jalat luistele vaan ihminen, jolla on jalat. Reduktionistinen ja dualistinen ajattelu eivät sovi performatiiviseen toimintaan.
- Alpo Suhonen
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- SS
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For every girl lacing up her sneakers, stepping onto the field, or diving into the pool, this isn’t just about sports. It’s about respect. It’s about equality. - A Step Backward: The Fight for Equity in Women's Sports Continues (blog)
- Carlos Wallace
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Why do we love games like sports? Because games are a simplified version of life. They incorporate elements of competition and cooperation, providing a platform for socialization and learning. Games present us with goals to achieve, teammates to collaborate with, obstacles to overcome, challenges to face, unpredictability to manage, strategies to develop, and skills to hone. Importantly, games offer valuable life lessons.
- David Durand
B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard
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No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.
- Eric Liddell
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My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan
- Eric Cantona
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If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the "coach" or "yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.
- John Hodgman
That is All
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There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.
- Randy Gardner
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Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.
- Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray
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Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question:

How much do we owe one another?

Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling - when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.
- Amit Ray
Enlightenment Step by Step
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
- Kirk Mango
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nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat
- Pliny the Younger
Letters, Volume II: Books 8–10. Panegyricus
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He wants to play major college football at a university far away, where nobody will know about his tragic family history. Then he wants to play in the NFL.

Every catch brings him closer to that reality. That's how he thinks of it, anyway. Every time he runs downfield, sees the ball in the air, and hears the defensive back laboring to catch up, whenever he feels that ball fall out of the sky and into his waiting hands, he inches closer to his goals.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In too many states, sports betting regulatory bodies have ceded control to gambling companies. These regulators are charged with managing sports betting and ensuring companies abide by the rules that the regulators put in place. In practice, they seem to see their mandate as getting out of companies’ way while ensuring sportsbooks meet the bare minimum requirements.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every other addictive product that you can think of, government seeks to regulate its distribution and consumption,” Levant observes. Given gambling’s official classification as addictive, and especially the evidence about the habit-forming potential of online gambling, a public-health framework suggests the need for measures to protect consumers before they have the chance to harm themselves or someone else.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The industry's version of 'responsible gaming' is designed to pull people from the river once they are drowning rather than requiring guardrails to make sports gambling products less dangerous,” Daynard, Gottlieb, and Levant wrote in 2022.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With indications that Gen Z is less interested in watching football—and professional sports generally—as well as an overall decline in America’s broadcast TV habit, dark clouds appear on the horizon, revenue-wise. Gambling was both an infusion of money through partnerships, sponsorships, and data agreements and a way to bump ratings back up. Sure enough, average viewership for 2021–2023 was 17.2 million. As more Americans try their hand at sports betting—especially as more states legalize it—the NFL will rely on gamblers to keep its revenue arrow pointing upward. The league does not seem to mind if it becomes as normal to bet on football as it is to watch football.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As philosopher Kent Dunnington explains, “persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His cell phone in his pocket offered a near-constant reminder of his addiction. “The devil is in your hand,” he wrote in his journal.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sports gambling crisis could have been avoided if states had taken a more careful approach to legalization. Instead, entranced by promises of easy money, they went all in.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stabbing people for fun stops being so fun when there are referees and scoreboards and rankings involved.
- Andrea Beatriz Arango
It's All or Nothing, Vale
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Oh, I’m sorry Dec, I forgot for five seconds that you played football in high school, I know you think that means you’re the only guy in town who knows how to throw a punch, but spare me your ego for once. Not everything has to be about you.
- Cosmo Knox
Under His Touch
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Holistinen tila on taidetta ja urheilua. Ei pyörääkään ihminen aja niin, että kädet ja jalat toimivat erikseen, ei jalat luistele vaan ihminen, jolla on jalat. Reduktionistinen ja dualistinen ajattelu eivät sovi performatiiviseen toimintaan.
- Alpo Suhonen
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⌅ +91-9257780540 Laser Exchange ID Contact Number In Pimpri-Chinchwad
- SS
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For every girl lacing up her sneakers, stepping onto the field, or diving into the pool, this isn’t just about sports. It’s about respect. It’s about equality. - A Step Backward: The Fight for Equity in Women's Sports Continues (blog)
- Carlos Wallace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why do we love games like sports? Because games are a simplified version of life. They incorporate elements of competition and cooperation, providing a platform for socialization and learning. Games present us with goals to achieve, teammates to collaborate with, obstacles to overcome, challenges to face, unpredictability to manage, strategies to develop, and skills to hone. Importantly, games offer valuable life lessons.
- David Durand
B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
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Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
- John Leonard
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No man who really is a man ever cared for the easy task. There is no enjoyment in the game that is easily won. It is that in which you have to strain every muscle and sinew to achieve victory that provides real joy.
- Eric Liddell
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan
- Eric Cantona
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the "coach" or "yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.
- John Hodgman
That is All
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There's something about putting on a pair of skates, and getting out there and moving like nobody else can. Freedom is a word that comes to mind.
- Randy Gardner
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or you’re in trouble. Your rhythm should set the pace of the fight. If it does, then you penetrate your opponent’s rhythm. You make him fight your fight, and that’s what boxing is all about.
- Sugar Ray Robinson
Sugar Ray
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Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question:

How much do we owe one another?

Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Enlightenment is like quantum tunneling - when everyone sees walls and barriers, enlightened one sees infinite possibilities.
- Amit Ray
Enlightenment Step by Step
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances.The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, make them.
- Kirk Mango
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
nihil novum nihil varium nihil quod non semel spectasse sufficiat
- Pliny the Younger
Letters, Volume II: Books 8–10. Panegyricus
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He wants to play major college football at a university far away, where nobody will know about his tragic family history. Then he wants to play in the NFL.

Every catch brings him closer to that reality. That's how he thinks of it, anyway. Every time he runs downfield, sees the ball in the air, and hears the defensive back laboring to catch up, whenever he feels that ball fall out of the sky and into his waiting hands, he inches closer to his goals.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In too many states, sports betting regulatory bodies have ceded control to gambling companies. These regulators are charged with managing sports betting and ensuring companies abide by the rules that the regulators put in place. In practice, they seem to see their mandate as getting out of companies’ way while ensuring sportsbooks meet the bare minimum requirements.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Every other addictive product that you can think of, government seeks to regulate its distribution and consumption,” Levant observes. Given gambling’s official classification as addictive, and especially the evidence about the habit-forming potential of online gambling, a public-health framework suggests the need for measures to protect consumers before they have the chance to harm themselves or someone else.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The industry's version of 'responsible gaming' is designed to pull people from the river once they are drowning rather than requiring guardrails to make sports gambling products less dangerous,” Daynard, Gottlieb, and Levant wrote in 2022.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
With indications that Gen Z is less interested in watching football—and professional sports generally—as well as an overall decline in America’s broadcast TV habit, dark clouds appear on the horizon, revenue-wise. Gambling was both an infusion of money through partnerships, sponsorships, and data agreements and a way to bump ratings back up. Sure enough, average viewership for 2021–2023 was 17.2 million. As more Americans try their hand at sports betting—especially as more states legalize it—the NFL will rely on gamblers to keep its revenue arrow pointing upward. The league does not seem to mind if it becomes as normal to bet on football as it is to watch football.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
As philosopher Kent Dunnington explains, “persons with severe addictions are among those contemporary prophets that we ignore to our own demise, for they show us who we truly are.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
His cell phone in his pocket offered a near-constant reminder of his addiction. “The devil is in your hand,” he wrote in his journal.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The sports gambling crisis could have been avoided if states had taken a more careful approach to legalization. Instead, entranced by promises of easy money, they went all in.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Stabbing people for fun stops being so fun when there are referees and scoreboards and rankings involved.
- Andrea Beatriz Arango
It's All or Nothing, Vale
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Oh, I’m sorry Dec, I forgot for five seconds that you played football in high school, I know you think that means you’re the only guy in town who knows how to throw a punch, but spare me your ego for once. Not everything has to be about you.
- Cosmo Knox
Under His Touch
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Holistinen tila on taidetta ja urheilua. Ei pyörääkään ihminen aja niin, että kädet ja jalat toimivat erikseen, ei jalat luistele vaan ihminen, jolla on jalat. Reduktionistinen ja dualistinen ajattelu eivät sovi performatiiviseen toimintaan.
- Alpo Suhonen
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⌅ +91-9257780540 Laser Exchange ID Contact Number In Pimpri-Chinchwad
- SS
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For every girl lacing up her sneakers, stepping onto the field, or diving into the pool, this isn’t just about sports. It’s about respect. It’s about equality. - A Step Backward: The Fight for Equity in Women's Sports Continues (blog)
- Carlos Wallace
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Why do we love games like sports? Because games are a simplified version of life. They incorporate elements of competition and cooperation, providing a platform for socialization and learning. Games present us with goals to achieve, teammates to collaborate with, obstacles to overcome, challenges to face, unpredictability to manage, strategies to develop, and skills to hone. Importantly, games offer valuable life lessons.
- David Durand
B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
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