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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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You can learn a lot about business by watching sports. Some of the strategies you see being executed in a sports game can actually be translated into business terms and executed to achieve business success.
- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
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Just because you're a master of sport, doesn't mean you're a master of life.
- Tamerlan Kuzgov
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More than body fitness in sport you need God's hand he can do better for you to score that goal.
- Nozipho N.Maphumulo
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When a legend performs badly, they lose a chunk of their loyal fans. The expectation is a fickle mistress.
- Sarvesh Jain
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I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower.
- Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia
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If the USA had as many people concerned with their government as are concerned with sports this country would not be in the bad shape it is today.
- James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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You don't ask the sun why you orbit, you just orbit. You let the gravitational waves of the baseball season pull you in and you surrender yourself, happily.
- Greg Larson
Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
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Be good. Be great. Come out swinging
- Emilia Finn
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We talked about making a triumphant return to glory, but we were doomed. I was discovering that some things aren’t meant to last. What makes them great is what also causes them to destroy themselves.
- Ross Warner
Drunk on Sunday
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I grew up caring about things. I just carried it over into my work. I knew that people had problems. I knew that my mom had problems. I knew the problems that people on the south side had. I tried to get them all to the next level of success, something you could be proud of. And I just practiced the same principles on the team.
-- Joe I. Vigil
- Pat Melgares
Chasing Excellence: The Remarkable Life and Inspiring Vigilosophy of Coach Joe I. Vigil
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The current dynamic is a power struggle where brands and teams, leagues, coaches, and agents basically have the mindset that they are the saviors to athletes, instead of presenting themselves as they truly are; a springboard for athletes to showcase their abilities.
- Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
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If you understand your why, your purpose in life, what you want to obtain in this life, and what you want to accomplish in this life, that's the first piece. And after the why, it's the what. How will you bring that passion, that purpose to life?
- Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
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All too often someone spoils my enjoyment of their company by talking to me.
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Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.
- Dave Barry
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
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It's what you don't see that can take you out.
- B. Davis Kroon
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There are two more things that I do regularly to keep my legs the way I want them:
1. I just walk around my apartment with my toes pointed straight in. Of course one looks like a pigeon, so do it when you're alone. But try always to walk that way when you're puttering around alone. You'll feel all the leg muscles responding.
2. Bend down and put your palms flat on the floor, keeping your knees straight. Then walk 'fourlegged' across the room (or down the hall if you're sure you won't frighten anyone) and backwards again. This is wonderful for both arm and leg muscles, and it draws blood to the face, which helps the complexion.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
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I witnessed this. In 1981 I played in the St. Louis Cardinal organization in a league encompassing Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. We had numerous African-American and black Dominican players. I can honestly say I never saw a hint of prejudice, and in fact I found Southern belles oddly drawn to the black players more than the white ones.
- Steve Travers
CALIFORNIA LIBERALISM IS EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN SPORT’S POLITICAL EFFECT
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Surf the wave of insanity.
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The Chicago Falcons may never have had a girl on the team before, but technically, the league doesn’t have any rules against it. I know I can out-skate and outplay any boy in these tryouts. All I have to do is show the coach what I’m made of.
- Leah Rooper
Just One of the Boys
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He had the look, Vega thought, the one reserved for teenaged boys, the one that says there's nothing but girls and beer and sports in the world and I am goddamn okay with that.
- Louisa Luna
Two Girls Down
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In our day the first interest of most men is business and after that sports; in medieval times the dominant interest was war and after that sports, but there was not too much difference since sports were warlike too.
- Edwin Tunis
Weapons: A Pictorial History
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You're on your feet. Maybe you're phoning, or combing your hair, or taking off your makeup. Plant your bare feet about twelve inches apart and grip the floor with them, keeping your knees rigid. Then try to push your feet together - but without letting them budge. Try as hard as you can. This is a wonderful example of getting muscles to work against each other and it's a tremendous thing for the inner thighs - they are another terribly flab-prone area.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
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Lie on your back with arms straight out at your sides and very slowly, with knees straight, raise your legs high and hold them in the air. Take a deep breath and very slowly lower them again.
Then with your legs still against the floor, draw the small of your back into the floor until you can feel that your back is one straight line. Hold for a count of ten.
Then begin the leg-rising exercise again. Work up to ten times.
As your stomach muscles become firmer add this routine: Anchor your feet under the bed or a heavy armchair and raise and lower your body slowly, keeping your knees rigid and your back very straight.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
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Jason Gesser was earlier the interim head coach, offensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator for the Idaho Vandals of the Washington State University. He played for Washington State University under head coach Mike Price. Jason Gesser played for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League, Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian football league and more. By the time, he was originally hired at Idaho as running backs coach in June 2011.
- Jason Gesser
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You can learn a lot about business by watching sports. Some of the strategies you see being executed in a sports game can actually be translated into business terms and executed to achieve business success.
- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just because you're a master of sport, doesn't mean you're a master of life.
- Tamerlan Kuzgov
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More than body fitness in sport you need God's hand he can do better for you to score that goal.
- Nozipho N.Maphumulo
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When a legend performs badly, they lose a chunk of their loyal fans. The expectation is a fickle mistress.
- Sarvesh Jain
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I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower.
- Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia
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If the USA had as many people concerned with their government as are concerned with sports this country would not be in the bad shape it is today.
- James Thomas Kesterson Jr
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You don't ask the sun why you orbit, you just orbit. You let the gravitational waves of the baseball season pull you in and you surrender yourself, happily.
- Greg Larson
Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
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Be good. Be great. Come out swinging
- Emilia Finn
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We talked about making a triumphant return to glory, but we were doomed. I was discovering that some things aren’t meant to last. What makes them great is what also causes them to destroy themselves.
- Ross Warner
Drunk on Sunday
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I grew up caring about things. I just carried it over into my work. I knew that people had problems. I knew that my mom had problems. I knew the problems that people on the south side had. I tried to get them all to the next level of success, something you could be proud of. And I just practiced the same principles on the team.
-- Joe I. Vigil
- Pat Melgares
Chasing Excellence: The Remarkable Life and Inspiring Vigilosophy of Coach Joe I. Vigil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The current dynamic is a power struggle where brands and teams, leagues, coaches, and agents basically have the mindset that they are the saviors to athletes, instead of presenting themselves as they truly are; a springboard for athletes to showcase their abilities.
- Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you understand your why, your purpose in life, what you want to obtain in this life, and what you want to accomplish in this life, that's the first piece. And after the why, it's the what. How will you bring that passion, that purpose to life?
- Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All too often someone spoils my enjoyment of their company by talking to me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.
- Dave Barry
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's what you don't see that can take you out.
- B. Davis Kroon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two more things that I do regularly to keep my legs the way I want them:
1. I just walk around my apartment with my toes pointed straight in. Of course one looks like a pigeon, so do it when you're alone. But try always to walk that way when you're puttering around alone. You'll feel all the leg muscles responding.
2. Bend down and put your palms flat on the floor, keeping your knees straight. Then walk 'fourlegged' across the room (or down the hall if you're sure you won't frighten anyone) and backwards again. This is wonderful for both arm and leg muscles, and it draws blood to the face, which helps the complexion.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I witnessed this. In 1981 I played in the St. Louis Cardinal organization in a league encompassing Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. We had numerous African-American and black Dominican players. I can honestly say I never saw a hint of prejudice, and in fact I found Southern belles oddly drawn to the black players more than the white ones.
- Steve Travers
CALIFORNIA LIBERALISM IS EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN SPORT’S POLITICAL EFFECT
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Surf the wave of insanity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Chicago Falcons may never have had a girl on the team before, but technically, the league doesn’t have any rules against it. I know I can out-skate and outplay any boy in these tryouts. All I have to do is show the coach what I’m made of.
- Leah Rooper
Just One of the Boys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had the look, Vega thought, the one reserved for teenaged boys, the one that says there's nothing but girls and beer and sports in the world and I am goddamn okay with that.
- Louisa Luna
Two Girls Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In our day the first interest of most men is business and after that sports; in medieval times the dominant interest was war and after that sports, but there was not too much difference since sports were warlike too.
- Edwin Tunis
Weapons: A Pictorial History
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're on your feet. Maybe you're phoning, or combing your hair, or taking off your makeup. Plant your bare feet about twelve inches apart and grip the floor with them, keeping your knees rigid. Then try to push your feet together - but without letting them budge. Try as hard as you can. This is a wonderful example of getting muscles to work against each other and it's a tremendous thing for the inner thighs - they are another terribly flab-prone area.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lie on your back with arms straight out at your sides and very slowly, with knees straight, raise your legs high and hold them in the air. Take a deep breath and very slowly lower them again.
Then with your legs still against the floor, draw the small of your back into the floor until you can feel that your back is one straight line. Hold for a count of ten.
Then begin the leg-rising exercise again. Work up to ten times.
As your stomach muscles become firmer add this routine: Anchor your feet under the bed or a heavy armchair and raise and lower your body slowly, keeping your knees rigid and your back very straight.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Jason Gesser was earlier the interim head coach, offensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator for the Idaho Vandals of the Washington State University. He played for Washington State University under head coach Mike Price. Jason Gesser played for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League, Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian football league and more. By the time, he was originally hired at Idaho as running backs coach in June 2011.
- Jason Gesser
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You can learn a lot about business by watching sports. Some of the strategies you see being executed in a sports game can actually be translated into business terms and executed to achieve business success.
- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr, CEO of Mayflower-Plymouth
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Just because you're a master of sport, doesn't mean you're a master of life.
- Tamerlan Kuzgov
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
More than body fitness in sport you need God's hand he can do better for you to score that goal.
- Nozipho N.Maphumulo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
When a legend performs badly, they lose a chunk of their loyal fans. The expectation is a fickle mistress.
- Sarvesh Jain
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower.
- Yamile Saied Méndez
Furia
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If the USA had as many people concerned with their government as are concerned with sports this country would not be in the bad shape it is today.
- James Thomas Kesterson Jr
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You don't ask the sun why you orbit, you just orbit. You let the gravitational waves of the baseball season pull you in and you surrender yourself, happily.
- Greg Larson
Clubbie: A Minor League Baseball Memoir
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Be good. Be great. Come out swinging
- Emilia Finn
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
We talked about making a triumphant return to glory, but we were doomed. I was discovering that some things aren’t meant to last. What makes them great is what also causes them to destroy themselves.
- Ross Warner
Drunk on Sunday
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I grew up caring about things. I just carried it over into my work. I knew that people had problems. I knew that my mom had problems. I knew the problems that people on the south side had. I tried to get them all to the next level of success, something you could be proud of. And I just practiced the same principles on the team.
-- Joe I. Vigil
- Pat Melgares
Chasing Excellence: The Remarkable Life and Inspiring Vigilosophy of Coach Joe I. Vigil
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The current dynamic is a power struggle where brands and teams, leagues, coaches, and agents basically have the mindset that they are the saviors to athletes, instead of presenting themselves as they truly are; a springboard for athletes to showcase their abilities.
- Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you understand your why, your purpose in life, what you want to obtain in this life, and what you want to accomplish in this life, that's the first piece. And after the why, it's the what. How will you bring that passion, that purpose to life?
- Michael McGinnis
GPS Guide for Athletes and Those Who Surround Them: How to Empower Your Sports Goals, Navigate the Process, and Steer Toward Success
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
All too often someone spoils my enjoyment of their company by talking to me.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes I think the main purpose of professional sports is to give guys something to talk about that does not involve them personally.
- Dave Barry
Lessons From Lucy: The Simple Joys of an Old, Happy Dog
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It's what you don't see that can take you out.
- B. Davis Kroon
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There are two more things that I do regularly to keep my legs the way I want them:
1. I just walk around my apartment with my toes pointed straight in. Of course one looks like a pigeon, so do it when you're alone. But try always to walk that way when you're puttering around alone. You'll feel all the leg muscles responding.
2. Bend down and put your palms flat on the floor, keeping your knees straight. Then walk 'fourlegged' across the room (or down the hall if you're sure you won't frighten anyone) and backwards again. This is wonderful for both arm and leg muscles, and it draws blood to the face, which helps the complexion.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I witnessed this. In 1981 I played in the St. Louis Cardinal organization in a league encompassing Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky. We had numerous African-American and black Dominican players. I can honestly say I never saw a hint of prejudice, and in fact I found Southern belles oddly drawn to the black players more than the white ones.
- Steve Travers
CALIFORNIA LIBERALISM IS EXAMPLE OF AMERICAN SPORT’S POLITICAL EFFECT
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Surf the wave of insanity.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The Chicago Falcons may never have had a girl on the team before, but technically, the league doesn’t have any rules against it. I know I can out-skate and outplay any boy in these tryouts. All I have to do is show the coach what I’m made of.
- Leah Rooper
Just One of the Boys
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
He had the look, Vega thought, the one reserved for teenaged boys, the one that says there's nothing but girls and beer and sports in the world and I am goddamn okay with that.
- Louisa Luna
Two Girls Down
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
In our day the first interest of most men is business and after that sports; in medieval times the dominant interest was war and after that sports, but there was not too much difference since sports were warlike too.
- Edwin Tunis
Weapons: A Pictorial History
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You're on your feet. Maybe you're phoning, or combing your hair, or taking off your makeup. Plant your bare feet about twelve inches apart and grip the floor with them, keeping your knees rigid. Then try to push your feet together - but without letting them budge. Try as hard as you can. This is a wonderful example of getting muscles to work against each other and it's a tremendous thing for the inner thighs - they are another terribly flab-prone area.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Lie on your back with arms straight out at your sides and very slowly, with knees straight, raise your legs high and hold them in the air. Take a deep breath and very slowly lower them again.
Then with your legs still against the floor, draw the small of your back into the floor until you can feel that your back is one straight line. Hold for a count of ten.
Then begin the leg-rising exercise again. Work up to ten times.
As your stomach muscles become firmer add this routine: Anchor your feet under the bed or a heavy armchair and raise and lower your body slowly, keeping your knees rigid and your back very straight.
- Joan Crawford
My Way of Life
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Jason Gesser was earlier the interim head coach, offensive coordinator, recruiting coordinator for the Idaho Vandals of the Washington State University. He played for Washington State University under head coach Mike Price. Jason Gesser played for the Utah Blaze of the Arena Football League, Calgary Stampeders of the Canadian football league and more. By the time, he was originally hired at Idaho as running backs coach in June 2011.
- Jason Gesser
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