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“Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.”
Sparky Anderson
“I never did like working out - it bears the same relationship to real sport as masturbation does to real sex”
David Lodge
“Competitive golf is played mainly on a five-and-a-half-inch course...the space between your ears.”
Bobby Jones
“Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”
Joe Namath
“There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.”
Bill Klem
“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 Orwell
“In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.”
Althea Gibson
“I don't like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.”
Early Wynn
“Wrestling is the only sport I've ever competed in that puts you totally in a situation of constant [motion] without breaks. I could play football or baseball, swim -- but there's always some kind of situation that would break my thoughts, break my concentration.”
Dan Gable
“Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.”
Russell Mark
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