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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 have no sense of humor about losing
- Rafael Nadal
Rafa
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Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides.
Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?"
It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes."
I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo.
Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?
- James A. Owen
The Indigo King
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It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
- Simon Kuper
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
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Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.
- Sri Chinmoy
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
- Bill Veeck
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Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
- Simon Kuper
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
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Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
- Stuart Dybek
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
- George Brett
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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
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For success put your energy over which you have control. Do not drain your energy to the things over which you have no control.
- Amit Ray
Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
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There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
- Polly Horvath
Everything on a Waffle
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That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.
- Don DeLillo
Underworld
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Sportsbooks should do more because they can do more. Instead of simply promoting responsible gambling by individuals, they should practice the responsible provision of gambling.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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The nation has not faced the long term of its embrace of legal sports betting, which was facilitated by profit-hungry companies and revenue-hungry lawmakers.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Who determines exactly what a high-risk bettor looks like? What will happen when their account is flagged? How restrictive will the limits on young bettors be? The efficacy of the programs will depend on the answers to these questions and the degree to which companies are willing to make decisions that hurt their bottom line.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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By recognizing that unsafe gambling is not simply a matter of personal irresponsibility, sportsbooks could transform themselves into sustainable businesses that protect public health. Every day they choose not to do so brings them a day closer to reckoning.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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The question is not how to totally denormalize sports betting such that putting $5 on the Cubs becomes socially or legally unacceptable. The question is how to normalize safe betting practices and, more importantly, to put a system in place that prevents unsafe practices from developing in the first place.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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The mark of a champion isn't just talent, it's humility in victory and grace in defeat.
- Wayne Chirisa
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Urheilulla on tunnespektrin kokemisen kautta mahdollisuudet antaa nuorelle ihmiselle tilaisuus oppia tuntemaan omat pahoinvointinsa, vihansa ja ilonsa. Mahdollisuudet tunteisiin ovat, ja tässä saattaa olla se, mikä saa nuoren urheilemaan.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Valmentajan kannattaa olla kiinnostunut ja utelias tieteestä, filosofiasta ja taiteestakin. Matka itseen on matkoista vaikein, mutta urheilu tarjoaa siihen loistavan mahdollisuuden. Aivan kuten taiteella, urheilulla on mielettömät mahdollisuudet luodata ihmisyyttä.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Kerran hän [Alpo Suhonen] kysyi joukkueelta, miksi pianisti harjoittelee 10 000 tuntia pianonsoittoa, ja joku vastasi, ”että se tulis hyväksi”. Apen vastaus oli, että siksi, että pianistin ei tarvitse soittaessaan miettiä, mitä kädet ja sormet tekevät, vaan hän voi kuunnella melodiaa ja aistia tunnelmaa.
- Toni Söderholm
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- SS
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Once status, self-image, and the opinions of others are prioritized above all else, players become increasingly on edge. Performance spaces are seen as dangerous, and players feel threatened by the possibility of not being enough. Once they feel this danger, their playfulness decreases.
- David Durand
B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
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Nick leaned ever so slightly sideways, head down, looking for all the world as if he was innocently trying to secure his food on the end of his fork and said ‘I think you should be careful what you wish for. What am I supposed to do when you’re looking at me like I’m what you’d like to eat for dinner instead?
- Cecelia Joyce
Pick Me Up
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I have no sense of humor about losing
- Rafael Nadal
Rafa
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Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides.
Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?"
It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes."
I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo.
Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?
- James A. Owen
The Indigo King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
- Simon Kuper
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.
- Sri Chinmoy
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
- Bill Veeck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
- Simon Kuper
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
- Stuart Dybek
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
- George Brett
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I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
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For success put your energy over which you have control. Do not drain your energy to the things over which you have no control.
- Amit Ray
Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
- Polly Horvath
Everything on a Waffle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.
- Don DeLillo
Underworld
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sportsbooks should do more because they can do more. Instead of simply promoting responsible gambling by individuals, they should practice the responsible provision of gambling.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The nation has not faced the long term of its embrace of legal sports betting, which was facilitated by profit-hungry companies and revenue-hungry lawmakers.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who determines exactly what a high-risk bettor looks like? What will happen when their account is flagged? How restrictive will the limits on young bettors be? The efficacy of the programs will depend on the answers to these questions and the degree to which companies are willing to make decisions that hurt their bottom line.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By recognizing that unsafe gambling is not simply a matter of personal irresponsibility, sportsbooks could transform themselves into sustainable businesses that protect public health. Every day they choose not to do so brings them a day closer to reckoning.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The question is not how to totally denormalize sports betting such that putting $5 on the Cubs becomes socially or legally unacceptable. The question is how to normalize safe betting practices and, more importantly, to put a system in place that prevents unsafe practices from developing in the first place.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The mark of a champion isn't just talent, it's humility in victory and grace in defeat.
- Wayne Chirisa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Urheilulla on tunnespektrin kokemisen kautta mahdollisuudet antaa nuorelle ihmiselle tilaisuus oppia tuntemaan omat pahoinvointinsa, vihansa ja ilonsa. Mahdollisuudet tunteisiin ovat, ja tässä saattaa olla se, mikä saa nuoren urheilemaan.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Valmentajan kannattaa olla kiinnostunut ja utelias tieteestä, filosofiasta ja taiteestakin. Matka itseen on matkoista vaikein, mutta urheilu tarjoaa siihen loistavan mahdollisuuden. Aivan kuten taiteella, urheilulla on mielettömät mahdollisuudet luodata ihmisyyttä.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Kerran hän [Alpo Suhonen] kysyi joukkueelta, miksi pianisti harjoittelee 10 000 tuntia pianonsoittoa, ja joku vastasi, ”että se tulis hyväksi”. Apen vastaus oli, että siksi, että pianistin ei tarvitse soittaessaan miettiä, mitä kädet ja sormet tekevät, vaan hän voi kuunnella melodiaa ja aistia tunnelmaa.
- Toni Söderholm
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⌅ +91-9257780540 Radhe Exch Id In Kolkata
- SS
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Once status, self-image, and the opinions of others are prioritized above all else, players become increasingly on edge. Performance spaces are seen as dangerous, and players feel threatened by the possibility of not being enough. Once they feel this danger, their playfulness decreases.
- David Durand
B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nick leaned ever so slightly sideways, head down, looking for all the world as if he was innocently trying to secure his food on the end of his fork and said ‘I think you should be careful what you wish for. What am I supposed to do when you’re looking at me like I’m what you’d like to eat for dinner instead?
- Cecelia Joyce
Pick Me Up
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I have no sense of humor about losing
- Rafael Nadal
Rafa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Like all the other arrivals to the tournament, Hank had erected a banner in front. It was a long, tapering pennant with a blue and red circular design in the center and the words GO CUBS! on both sides.
Interesting," said Hugo. "What does it mean?"
It was a gift from Sam," Hank explained as they entered the tent. "He said it used to represent Triumph over Adversity, but now better represents Impossible Quests and Lost Causes."
I think I preferred not knowing that," said Hugo.
Hank grinned. "You're a Sox fan too, hey?
- James A. Owen
The Indigo King
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.
- Simon Kuper
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Run and become.
Become and run.
Run to succeed in the outer world.
Become to proceed in the inner world.
- Sri Chinmoy
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
- Bill Veeck
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
- Simon Kuper
Soccernomics: Why England Loses, Why Germany and Brazil Win, and Why the U.S., Japan, Australia, Turkey--and Even Iraq--Are Destined to Become the Kings of the World's Most Popular Sport
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.
- Stuart Dybek
Childhood and Other Neighborhoods: Stories
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
- George Brett
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.
- Mickey Mantle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
For success put your energy over which you have control. Do not drain your energy to the things over which you have no control.
- Amit Ray
Mindfulness Meditation for Corporate Leadership and Management
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.
- Polly Horvath
Everything on a Waffle
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.
- Don DeLillo
Underworld
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sportsbooks should do more because they can do more. Instead of simply promoting responsible gambling by individuals, they should practice the responsible provision of gambling.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The nation has not faced the long term of its embrace of legal sports betting, which was facilitated by profit-hungry companies and revenue-hungry lawmakers.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Who determines exactly what a high-risk bettor looks like? What will happen when their account is flagged? How restrictive will the limits on young bettors be? The efficacy of the programs will depend on the answers to these questions and the degree to which companies are willing to make decisions that hurt their bottom line.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
By recognizing that unsafe gambling is not simply a matter of personal irresponsibility, sportsbooks could transform themselves into sustainable businesses that protect public health. Every day they choose not to do so brings them a day closer to reckoning.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The question is not how to totally denormalize sports betting such that putting $5 on the Cubs becomes socially or legally unacceptable. The question is how to normalize safe betting practices and, more importantly, to put a system in place that prevents unsafe practices from developing in the first place.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The mark of a champion isn't just talent, it's humility in victory and grace in defeat.
- Wayne Chirisa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Urheilulla on tunnespektrin kokemisen kautta mahdollisuudet antaa nuorelle ihmiselle tilaisuus oppia tuntemaan omat pahoinvointinsa, vihansa ja ilonsa. Mahdollisuudet tunteisiin ovat, ja tässä saattaa olla se, mikä saa nuoren urheilemaan.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Valmentajan kannattaa olla kiinnostunut ja utelias tieteestä, filosofiasta ja taiteestakin. Matka itseen on matkoista vaikein, mutta urheilu tarjoaa siihen loistavan mahdollisuuden. Aivan kuten taiteella, urheilulla on mielettömät mahdollisuudet luodata ihmisyyttä.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Kerran hän [Alpo Suhonen] kysyi joukkueelta, miksi pianisti harjoittelee 10 000 tuntia pianonsoittoa, ja joku vastasi, ”että se tulis hyväksi”. Apen vastaus oli, että siksi, että pianistin ei tarvitse soittaessaan miettiä, mitä kädet ja sormet tekevät, vaan hän voi kuunnella melodiaa ja aistia tunnelmaa.
- Toni Söderholm
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⌅ +91-9257780540 Radhe Exch Id In Kolkata
- SS
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Once status, self-image, and the opinions of others are prioritized above all else, players become increasingly on edge. Performance spaces are seen as dangerous, and players feel threatened by the possibility of not being enough. Once they feel this danger, their playfulness decreases.
- David Durand
B.E.T. On It: A Psychological Approach to Coaching Gen Z and Beyond
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Nick leaned ever so slightly sideways, head down, looking for all the world as if he was innocently trying to secure his food on the end of his fork and said ‘I think you should be careful what you wish for. What am I supposed to do when you’re looking at me like I’m what you’d like to eat for dinner instead?
- Cecelia Joyce
Pick Me Up
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