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“I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.”
Reggie Jackson
“I find golf very relaxing.it's a way to get away from work and get outside. It's a lot of fun, and once you get going it's almost kind of addictive.”
Bill Gates
“I can't describe to you how surprised I was to find out I loved her, old sport. I even hoped for a while that she'd throw me over, but she didn't, because she was in love with me too. She thought I knew a lot beacause I knew different things from her....Well, there I was, way off my ambitions, getting deeper in love every minute, and all of a sudden I didn't care. What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do? Gatsby”
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.”
Patanjali
“More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.”
Dan Gable
“You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.”
Bill Lee
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”
William Shakespeare
“Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principle”
Juan Antonio Samaranch
“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.”
Earl Warren
“Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.”
Tommy Lasorda
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