Theodore Roosevelt Quotes, Soccer Quotes, Sports Quotes

I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master.

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One of my favourite contemporary fiction writers is a Texan, Ben Fountain. His extraordinary novel, Billy Lynn's Long Half-Time Walk, all takes place within the half-time show at a Dallas Cowboys football game. No one has better summed up the American appetite for spectacle, the link between sports and politics, and the absolute madness of George W. Bush's Iraq War.

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He loves to sit and hear me sing, Then, laughing, sports and plays with me; Then stretches out my golden wing, And mocks my loss of liberty.

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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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The power of the human will to compete and the drive to excel beyond the body's normal capabilities is most beautifully demonstrated in the arena of sport.

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It's the bane of both the news and sports businesses, both electronic and print - 'You heard it here first!' Who cares? That's nothing but a vanity play. If it's not right, it's garbage.

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I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

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

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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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I wanted the world to know that my country Ethiopia has always won with determination and heroism.

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You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

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

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I don't understand these new coaches who don't drink. What do they do when they get beat?

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There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.

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

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Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.

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Do you believe in miracles?

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A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

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Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

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