Ovid Quotes, Love Quotes, Sports Quotes

Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.

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Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.

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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, you cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

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For what do we live, but to make sport by subjecting our neighbors to endless discretionary review for minor additions?

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You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

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Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

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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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Failure is the foundation of success: success is the lurking place of failure.

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The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next; And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports. These orders upward all of them are gazing, And downward so prevail, that unto God They all attracted are and all attract.

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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.

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They wanted to buy out my contract, but I couldn't make change for a $20, so they had to let me stay.

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Baseball, more than any other sport, has a magical way of connecting fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, grandparents and grandchildren and ancestors back down the line. - From The Brooklyn Nine

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

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If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.

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I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

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But every fool describes, in these bright days, His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise,-- Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport.

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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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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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