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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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Much of sportsbooks’ behavior is obviously less about competing with the black market and instead about cultivating a new generation of gamblers. “Anybody under twenty-five they have their eye on,” one former FanDuel employee said of their old company. The vast majority of these bettors would likely never have bet illegally. But the companies know that young people are crucial for their bottom line, that bettors between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five are “the guys that bring you all the money,” the former FanDueler told me.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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[New Jersey Democratic senator Bill Bradley] feared the spread of problem gambling, that legalized gambling would supplement rather than supplant illegal gambling, and most of all, the threat of the corruption of sports and of America’s youth. “When young people see the State involved in gambling on sports, can there be any doubt that they will think that that’s what sport is all about?
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Colorado had the misfortune of launching legal sports betting at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when all major professional sports leagues were shut down. Some people, like Garnett, were willing to place bets that would not be decided for months (the Broncos finished 5–11). Others wanted action right away, wherever on the globe they could find it. Among the most popular sports in those early months were South Korean baseball, Costa Rican soccer, and Russian ping-pong. In May and June, Coloradans bet $15.7 million—roughly a quarter of the total bet on all sports—on table tennis, which was exciting, fast paced, and played at all hours of the day. Even if many bettors were simply picking players at random, they were not going to miss the chance for convenient, legal betting.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Once the NFL decided to go in on gambling, it sought to squeeze every last dollar out of the betting economy.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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True sportsmanship is leaving the arena with your character more intact than your record.
- Wayne Chirisa
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Sports test character as much as skill. Discipline, teamwork, and resilience often matter more than trophies or accolades. Every practice, every loss, and every victory shapes not just the athlete, but the person they become off the field.
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Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me sobbing and weak and shaking with helpless rage. He knew my pressure points. He knew how to provoke me.

Garrett had never known me as Kat Shaw from Nowhere, Illinois. I could leave her behind, as abruptly and heartlessly as Heath had left me. With Heath, I could be myself. But with Garrett, I could be someone better.

And if Heath wanted to see me again? He could watch me on television winning goddamn gold medals with Garrett Lin.
- Layne Fargo
The Favorites
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Valmentajan tärkein tehtävä pelikaudella: luova pelin johtaminen, eli pelaajien peluuttaminen oikein. Individualistinen ajattelu, kollektiivinen ajattelu: mitä paremmat yksilöt, sitä suurempi liikkumavara eri tilanteissa.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Sports, Cannabis and healthy Nutrition change an exhausting Life drastically. Overall, Cannabis and healthy Nutrition are enough to change the Worldview beneficially. Sports is a Luxury, which lots of People unfortunately can't afford mentally, or physically.
- Sino Melo
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Isn't it something that people will divorce, but not break up with their teams?
- Bill Simmons
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Most people wildly overestimate what they can accomplish in a day, and woefully underestimate what they can accomplish in a year, let alone a decade.
- Rich Roll
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
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You’re not any other girl—you’re different. When I look into your eyes,
I forget my name half of the time.
- Kristin Lee
On My Knees
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Hiring is like building a winning sports team; you need a combination of talent, chemistry, and a shared goal
- Dax Bamania
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I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball.
- Annie Savoy, Bull Durham
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To remain healthy and injury-free, follow this simple equation: Training = Workout + Rest
- Philip Maffetone
1:59: The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach—Here's How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners about Training and Racing
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Sports is equivalent important in life along with education and healthy diet to have peaceful mindset and a positive approach towards life.
- Bhawna Dehariya
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Some people are in your life for a short time, but teach you things that last a lifetime.
- Donald Richards; The Lion of Dellwood
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Former greats didn’t necessarily make great coaches.
- Liane Moriarty
Apples Never Fall
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If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it sucks. It’s been that way since the beginning of the sport. And while I’ve been in the game for a long time now, it is still surprising to see how bad some gear can be. I don’t know how the manufacturers stay in business.
- The Secret Cyclist
The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton
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Not an emotional person? That's pretty much all he is! Maybe she talks a lot about her feelings, but he's entirely governed by his, that's the difference. But that's what makes him a good fireman, and a good dad too, and it was his emotions she fell in love with. And it's emotions that have made their sons good hockey players and their daughter a fantastic figure skater, because you can't get good at a sport if you're not sensitive enough for it to mean everything to you, if you don't take every setback personally, if every loss doesn't feel like dying.
- Fredrik Backman
The Winners
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You can’t build a cathedral with doubters.
- Houllier - Gerard
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Running is WD-40 for the mind
- Corey Irwin
The Athlete's Cookbook: A Nutritional Program to Fuel the Body for Peak Performance and Rapid Recovery
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The common love of something is not nearly as much a uniting force as the common hatred of someone.
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During induction week we were housed in apartments on South Fremantle’s South Terrace and given a tour of the club - not that there was that much of a club to tour in those days. It was a dilapidated and substandard set-up. The gymnasium, team meeting room and physio treatment room were all housed in the old Victoria Pavilion at the western end of Fremantle Oval. Our official change rooms were in the South Fremantle visitors’ change rooms, which were normally reserved for the opposition at WAFL matches, and the team was shipped to other venues around Perth as required for training sessions. We trained regularly at Subiaco Oval, Aquinas College, Troy Park, McGillivray Oval and various military facilities, in particular the Leeuwin barracks in East Fremantle, in my early days.
- Matthew Pavlich
Purple Heart
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Much of sportsbooks’ behavior is obviously less about competing with the black market and instead about cultivating a new generation of gamblers. “Anybody under twenty-five they have their eye on,” one former FanDuel employee said of their old company. The vast majority of these bettors would likely never have bet illegally. But the companies know that young people are crucial for their bottom line, that bettors between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five are “the guys that bring you all the money,” the former FanDueler told me.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[New Jersey Democratic senator Bill Bradley] feared the spread of problem gambling, that legalized gambling would supplement rather than supplant illegal gambling, and most of all, the threat of the corruption of sports and of America’s youth. “When young people see the State involved in gambling on sports, can there be any doubt that they will think that that’s what sport is all about?
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Colorado had the misfortune of launching legal sports betting at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when all major professional sports leagues were shut down. Some people, like Garnett, were willing to place bets that would not be decided for months (the Broncos finished 5–11). Others wanted action right away, wherever on the globe they could find it. Among the most popular sports in those early months were South Korean baseball, Costa Rican soccer, and Russian ping-pong. In May and June, Coloradans bet $15.7 million—roughly a quarter of the total bet on all sports—on table tennis, which was exciting, fast paced, and played at all hours of the day. Even if many bettors were simply picking players at random, they were not going to miss the chance for convenient, legal betting.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once the NFL decided to go in on gambling, it sought to squeeze every last dollar out of the betting economy.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True sportsmanship is leaving the arena with your character more intact than your record.
- Wayne Chirisa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports test character as much as skill. Discipline, teamwork, and resilience often matter more than trophies or accolades. Every practice, every loss, and every victory shapes not just the athlete, but the person they become off the field.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me sobbing and weak and shaking with helpless rage. He knew my pressure points. He knew how to provoke me.

Garrett had never known me as Kat Shaw from Nowhere, Illinois. I could leave her behind, as abruptly and heartlessly as Heath had left me. With Heath, I could be myself. But with Garrett, I could be someone better.

And if Heath wanted to see me again? He could watch me on television winning goddamn gold medals with Garrett Lin.
- Layne Fargo
The Favorites
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Valmentajan tärkein tehtävä pelikaudella: luova pelin johtaminen, eli pelaajien peluuttaminen oikein. Individualistinen ajattelu, kollektiivinen ajattelu: mitä paremmat yksilöt, sitä suurempi liikkumavara eri tilanteissa.
- Alpo Suhonen
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Sports, Cannabis and healthy Nutrition change an exhausting Life drastically. Overall, Cannabis and healthy Nutrition are enough to change the Worldview beneficially. Sports is a Luxury, which lots of People unfortunately can't afford mentally, or physically.
- Sino Melo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Isn't it something that people will divorce, but not break up with their teams?
- Bill Simmons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people wildly overestimate what they can accomplish in a day, and woefully underestimate what they can accomplish in a year, let alone a decade.
- Rich Roll
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re not any other girl—you’re different. When I look into your eyes,
I forget my name half of the time.
- Kristin Lee
On My Knees
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hiring is like building a winning sports team; you need a combination of talent, chemistry, and a shared goal
- Dax Bamania
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball.
- Annie Savoy, Bull Durham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To remain healthy and injury-free, follow this simple equation: Training = Workout + Rest
- Philip Maffetone
1:59: The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach—Here's How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners about Training and Racing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports is equivalent important in life along with education and healthy diet to have peaceful mindset and a positive approach towards life.
- Bhawna Dehariya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people are in your life for a short time, but teach you things that last a lifetime.
- Donald Richards; The Lion of Dellwood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Former greats didn’t necessarily make great coaches.
- Liane Moriarty
Apples Never Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it sucks. It’s been that way since the beginning of the sport. And while I’ve been in the game for a long time now, it is still surprising to see how bad some gear can be. I don’t know how the manufacturers stay in business.
- The Secret Cyclist
The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not an emotional person? That's pretty much all he is! Maybe she talks a lot about her feelings, but he's entirely governed by his, that's the difference. But that's what makes him a good fireman, and a good dad too, and it was his emotions she fell in love with. And it's emotions that have made their sons good hockey players and their daughter a fantastic figure skater, because you can't get good at a sport if you're not sensitive enough for it to mean everything to you, if you don't take every setback personally, if every loss doesn't feel like dying.
- Fredrik Backman
The Winners
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can’t build a cathedral with doubters.
- Houllier - Gerard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Running is WD-40 for the mind
- Corey Irwin
The Athlete's Cookbook: A Nutritional Program to Fuel the Body for Peak Performance and Rapid Recovery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The common love of something is not nearly as much a uniting force as the common hatred of someone.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
During induction week we were housed in apartments on South Fremantle’s South Terrace and given a tour of the club - not that there was that much of a club to tour in those days. It was a dilapidated and substandard set-up. The gymnasium, team meeting room and physio treatment room were all housed in the old Victoria Pavilion at the western end of Fremantle Oval. Our official change rooms were in the South Fremantle visitors’ change rooms, which were normally reserved for the opposition at WAFL matches, and the team was shipped to other venues around Perth as required for training sessions. We trained regularly at Subiaco Oval, Aquinas College, Troy Park, McGillivray Oval and various military facilities, in particular the Leeuwin barracks in East Fremantle, in my early days.
- Matthew Pavlich
Purple Heart
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Much of sportsbooks’ behavior is obviously less about competing with the black market and instead about cultivating a new generation of gamblers. “Anybody under twenty-five they have their eye on,” one former FanDuel employee said of their old company. The vast majority of these bettors would likely never have bet illegally. But the companies know that young people are crucial for their bottom line, that bettors between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five are “the guys that bring you all the money,” the former FanDueler told me.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
[New Jersey Democratic senator Bill Bradley] feared the spread of problem gambling, that legalized gambling would supplement rather than supplant illegal gambling, and most of all, the threat of the corruption of sports and of America’s youth. “When young people see the State involved in gambling on sports, can there be any doubt that they will think that that’s what sport is all about?
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Colorado had the misfortune of launching legal sports betting at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, when all major professional sports leagues were shut down. Some people, like Garnett, were willing to place bets that would not be decided for months (the Broncos finished 5–11). Others wanted action right away, wherever on the globe they could find it. Among the most popular sports in those early months were South Korean baseball, Costa Rican soccer, and Russian ping-pong. In May and June, Coloradans bet $15.7 million—roughly a quarter of the total bet on all sports—on table tennis, which was exciting, fast paced, and played at all hours of the day. Even if many bettors were simply picking players at random, they were not going to miss the chance for convenient, legal betting.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Once the NFL decided to go in on gambling, it sought to squeeze every last dollar out of the betting economy.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
True sportsmanship is leaving the arena with your character more intact than your record.
- Wayne Chirisa
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports test character as much as skill. Discipline, teamwork, and resilience often matter more than trophies or accolades. Every practice, every loss, and every victory shapes not just the athlete, but the person they become off the field.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Heath knew me when I was a gangly little girl with bloody kneecaps and prairie grass in my hair. He'd seen me sobbing and weak and shaking with helpless rage. He knew my pressure points. He knew how to provoke me.

Garrett had never known me as Kat Shaw from Nowhere, Illinois. I could leave her behind, as abruptly and heartlessly as Heath had left me. With Heath, I could be myself. But with Garrett, I could be someone better.

And if Heath wanted to see me again? He could watch me on television winning goddamn gold medals with Garrett Lin.
- Layne Fargo
The Favorites
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Valmentajan tärkein tehtävä pelikaudella: luova pelin johtaminen, eli pelaajien peluuttaminen oikein. Individualistinen ajattelu, kollektiivinen ajattelu: mitä paremmat yksilöt, sitä suurempi liikkumavara eri tilanteissa.
- Alpo Suhonen
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports, Cannabis and healthy Nutrition change an exhausting Life drastically. Overall, Cannabis and healthy Nutrition are enough to change the Worldview beneficially. Sports is a Luxury, which lots of People unfortunately can't afford mentally, or physically.
- Sino Melo
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Isn't it something that people will divorce, but not break up with their teams?
- Bill Simmons
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Most people wildly overestimate what they can accomplish in a day, and woefully underestimate what they can accomplish in a year, let alone a decade.
- Rich Roll
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You’re not any other girl—you’re different. When I look into your eyes,
I forget my name half of the time.
- Kristin Lee
On My Knees
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Hiring is like building a winning sports team; you need a combination of talent, chemistry, and a shared goal
- Dax Bamania
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
I believe in the Church of Baseball. I've tried all the major religions and most of the minor ones. And the only church that truly feeds the soul, day-in day-out, is the Church of Baseball.
- Annie Savoy, Bull Durham
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
To remain healthy and injury-free, follow this simple equation: Training = Workout + Rest
- Philip Maffetone
1:59: The Sub-Two-Hour Marathon Is Within Reach—Here's How It Will Go Down, and What It Can Teach All Runners about Training and Racing
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Sports is equivalent important in life along with education and healthy diet to have peaceful mindset and a positive approach towards life.
- Bhawna Dehariya
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Some people are in your life for a short time, but teach you things that last a lifetime.
- Donald Richards; The Lion of Dellwood
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Former greats didn’t necessarily make great coaches.
- Liane Moriarty
Apples Never Fall
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
If you want to know the truth about the latest equipment, don’t ask a pro. At least not one that’s speaking on the record. We’re told what to use and we have to be positive about it, even when it sucks. It’s been that way since the beginning of the sport. And while I’ve been in the game for a long time now, it is still surprising to see how bad some gear can be. I don’t know how the manufacturers stay in business.
- The Secret Cyclist
The Secret Cyclist: Real Life as a Rider in the Professional Peloton
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Not an emotional person? That's pretty much all he is! Maybe she talks a lot about her feelings, but he's entirely governed by his, that's the difference. But that's what makes him a good fireman, and a good dad too, and it was his emotions she fell in love with. And it's emotions that have made their sons good hockey players and their daughter a fantastic figure skater, because you can't get good at a sport if you're not sensitive enough for it to mean everything to you, if you don't take every setback personally, if every loss doesn't feel like dying.
- Fredrik Backman
The Winners
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
You can’t build a cathedral with doubters.
- Houllier - Gerard
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
Running is WD-40 for the mind
- Corey Irwin
The Athlete's Cookbook: A Nutritional Program to Fuel the Body for Peak Performance and Rapid Recovery
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
The common love of something is not nearly as much a uniting force as the common hatred of someone.
Avg Rating: --Rate This Quote
During induction week we were housed in apartments on South Fremantle’s South Terrace and given a tour of the club - not that there was that much of a club to tour in those days. It was a dilapidated and substandard set-up. The gymnasium, team meeting room and physio treatment room were all housed in the old Victoria Pavilion at the western end of Fremantle Oval. Our official change rooms were in the South Fremantle visitors’ change rooms, which were normally reserved for the opposition at WAFL matches, and the team was shipped to other venues around Perth as required for training sessions. We trained regularly at Subiaco Oval, Aquinas College, Troy Park, McGillivray Oval and various military facilities, in particular the Leeuwin barracks in East Fremantle, in my early days.
- Matthew Pavlich
Purple Heart
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