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“In sports, you simply aren't considered a real champion until you have defended your title successfully. Winning it once can be a fluke; winning it twice proves you are the best.”
Althea Gibson
“Games lubricate the body and the mind.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
John Wooden
“The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.”
Jean Claude Killy
“Sports is the toy department of human life.”
Howard Cosell
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.”
Michael Jordan
“I don't know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.”
Richard M. Nixon
“The human spirit sublimates the impulses it thwarts; a healthy sex life mitigates the lust for other sports”
Piet Hein
“Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.”
Mickey Mantle
“After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.”
Branch Rickey
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