Sports proverbs

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◆ Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

- Chuck Klosterman99

◆ You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.

- Yogi Berra99

◆ Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

- Dave Barry99

◆ I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.

- Tim Daly99

◆ football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

- Vince Lombardi99

◆ Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is.

- Bob Feller99

◆ Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

- Robert Griffin III99

◆ Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.

- Bobby Unser99

◆ You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

- Michael Phelps99

◆ Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.

- Michael Jordan99

◆ Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau99

◆ Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

- Heywood Broun99

◆ I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.

- Mia Hamm99

◆ Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

- Babe Ruth99

◆ I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.

- Will Rogers99