Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes, Sports Quotes, Taken Quotes

I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

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Ah, nut-brown partridges! Ah, brilliant pheasants! And ah, ye poachers!--'Tis no sport for peasants.

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When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.

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Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

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Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.

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We learn early on that, in order to be a winner, you have to believe in yourself. You have to have the confidence to make things happen. And you have to have personal pride.

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My priority is to turn people - especially kids - on to sports and being active so they don't even have to think about it being good for their health. If people participate for the fun of it, and believe me - it is fun, then fitness programs will be much more successful.

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Tags : Alan Thicke Quotes , Sports Quotes , Fun Quotes

So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.

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I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

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I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my own.

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Sweet are the uses of adversity

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Winning isn't enough. The acme of all skill is to defeat your enemy before taking the field.

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I take pride in my sports knowledge. I take pride in everything I do. It's part of me.

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It's not bragging if you can back it up.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all.

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No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.

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Competition in its best form is a test of self. It has nothing to do with medals. The winner is the person who gets the most out of themselves.

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You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

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