04.04.06

Golf Quotes

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Golf Quotes

The Universal Law is impartial. It will give you anything you believe. It will throw you garbage or roses depending on the energy you put in. You are the one in charge, and you must accept that and stand alone. If you think God is coming down to fix things for you, forget it. God is out playing golf.
- Stuart Wilde

Golf is the hardest game in the world to play, and the easiest to cheat at.
- Dave Hill

If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
- Jack Lemmon

Talking to a golf ball won’t do you any good. Unless you do it while your opponent is teeing off.
- Bruce Lansky

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Golf Quotes

Nothing increases your golf score more than witnesses.
- Unknown

One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot, the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.
- Peter Marshall

The uglier a man’s legs are, the better he plays golf - it’s almost a law.
- H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, English Writer

Why do they call it Golf? Because all the other four letter words were taken.
- Unknown

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02.21.06

Football Quotes

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Football Quotes

In doing your work in the great world, it is a safe plan to follow a rule I once heard on the football field: Don’t flinch, don’t fall; hit the line hard.
- Theodore Roosevelt

When the child is twelve, your wife buys her a splendidly silly article of clothing called a training bra. To train what? I never had a training jock. And believe me, when I played football, I could have used a training jock more than any twelve-year-old needs a training bra.
- Bill Cosby

Let’s win one for the Gipper.
- Knute Rockne (1888-1931)

No star playing, just football.
- Knute Rockne (1888-1931)

Football is a game you play with your brain
- Johan Cruyff

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02.15.06

Olympics Quotes

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Olympics Quotes

And we realized that it was kind of a starting point for gymnastics, to go professional, and also to just get a lot more of the audiences in the arenas on the off years, in the years that we’re not in the Olympics.
- Shannon Miller (1977-) - American gymnast, winner of five medals at the 1992 OlympicGames in Barcelona, Spain

Performing enhancing drugs are banned in the Olympics. Ok, we can swing with that. But performance debilitating drugs should not be banned. Smoke a joint and win the hundred meters, fair play to you. That’s pretty damn good. Unless someone’s dangling a Mars bar off in the distance.
- Eddie Izzard (1962-) - British stand-up Comedian and Actor

The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
- Mitch Gaylord

I’ve seen a much tougher opposition than her [Carly Patterson]. Let’s see how long she can remain on top. Can she keep going and compete in two more Olympics like myself.
- Svetlana Khorkina (1979-) - Russian gymnast

Defintely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That’s my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She’s a gymnast. So I’m a huge fan.
- Jaime Pressly (1977-) - American gymnast and Dancer

If you make one mistake, it can result in vasectomy.
- John Rowland, Olympian, speaking about the steeplechase

I felt totally myself, nothing like the emptiness and horrible feeling I had then [pulling out the Olympics] - no dizziness.
- Paula Radcliffe

When you cross the line, it is such a wonderful feeling it’s hard to describe. [On winning gold in the Olympics]
- Kelly Holmes

The 400m boys have been supportive - although I’m still trying to remember everyone’s name [on gatecrashing the British Olympics team]
- Malachi Davis

Yes folks, their gold medal looks the same as everybody elses’.
- Bob Costas, NBC Sports Commentator’s comment after watching Olympic Rhythmic Gymnastics competition.

In high school, I didn’t get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.
- Rulon Gardner, 29 year old American from Afton, Wyoming won Olympic Gold for Greco-Roman Wrestling in Sydney by beating the Russian legend, Alexsandr Karelin. Going into the gold medal match, Karelin, with 9 World Championships and three Olympic gold medals, had been unbeaten since 1987.

When you stand on the victory stand, you must be able to ask yourself: ‘Did I win this medal?’
Kip Keino, Olympic gold medalist in the 1500 and the 3000 meter steeplechase, from a speech urging young athletes not to use performance enhancing drugs.

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Olympic Quotes

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Olympic Quotes

If you don’t try to win you might as well hold the Olympics in somebody’s back yard.
- Jesse Owens

Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.
- Boxing Analyst

If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.
- Softball announcer

He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.
- Basketball analyst

Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.
- At the rowing medal ceremony

Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.
- Soccer commentator

It was tough but I was able to produce a pretty good performance and I’m ecstatic about the result. [On beating Phelps in the race of the century, as it was billed, at the 2004 Olympics]
- Ian Thorpe

The odd thing is, I knew we were going to win on the way to the stadium - that’s the crazy thing about the Olympics.
- Darren Campbell

I’m sure these Olympics will feel a lot different. There is not only more pressure on us as a team but more pressure individually.
- Paul Hamm

“You, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world.”
“Thanks, King.”
- Dialogue between Gustav V of Sweden and Jim Thorpe at the 1912 Olympics

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Olympics Quotes

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The goal of Olympism is to place everywhere sport at the service of the harmonious development of man, with a view to encouraging the establishment of a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity. To this effect, the Olympic Movement engages, alone or in cooperation with other organizations and within the limits of its means, in actions to promote peace.
- From the Olympic Charter

This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.
- Weightlifting commentator

This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.
- Dressage commentator

I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.
- Paul Hamm, Gymnast

Defintely gymnastics, because I was a gymnast for 11 years. That’s my thing. My girlfriend Betty Okino was in the 1992 Olympics and won a bronze medal. She’s a gymnast. So I’m a huge fan
- Jaime Pressly

All our hopes are pinned on one person - Paula Radcliffe. If Paula doesn’t win gold then we are going to have a postmortem on this Olympic team. [she didn't win gold, but Britain came top 10 overall in 2004 Athens Olympics]
- Roger Black

One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them… Oh my God, what have I just said?
- Tennis commentator

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