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«I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.»
«It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.»
Author: William Sloan Coffin
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
arena, conceive, conceive of, freely, interestingly, risks, sports, too bad
«In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
acceptable, be active, females, scarier, seventies, sports
«I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
cared, cementing, cements, comparing, ephemeral, Helen, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody, like so, Moody, some other, sports, that much, transitory, wills
«I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.»
«I had a series of childhood illnesses; scarlet fever, pneumonia, polio. I walked with braces until I was at least nine years old. My life wasn't like the average person who grew up and decided to enter the world of sports.»
Author: Wilma Rudolph
(Runner)
| About:
Childhood,
Illness
| Keywords:
brace, braces, bracing, fever, illnesses, Nine Lives, pneumonia, polio, scarlet, scarlet fever, sports, World Series
«I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.»
«If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such»
«I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.»
«Just as eating contrary to the inclination is injurious to the health, so study without desire sports the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.»
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