Sports quotations

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◆ Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

- George Orwell99

◆ You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar99

◆ If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

- Vince Lombardi99

◆ When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

- Hunter S. Thompson99

◆ It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

- Muhammad Ali99

◆ My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.

- Hank Aaron99

◆ To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.

- Ian Botham99

◆ Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

- Earl Monroe99

◆ These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.

- Charles Barkley99

◆ It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

- Billie Jean King99

◆ Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.

- Paul Coffey99

◆ Athletes get emotional over sports all the time because its not just a game, it's life.

- Maria Micah Rosales99

◆ Life will always throw you curves, just keep fouling them off, the right pitch will come and when it does be prepared to run the bases.

- Sara Ann Nielsen99

◆ Play for the name on the front of the jersey and they will remember the name on the back.

- Wayne Rooney99