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There's something about being at the tournaments that you don't really get on TV, although golf is a great sport to watch on television. — Bill Paxton

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results. — Jerry Flint

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. — Wayne Gretzky

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him. — Lou Piniella

I have a fond place in my heart for Seattle, so I hope that an NBA team comes back to this great city, this great sports city. — Magic Johnson

Sports are not about awards or world championships, though those are great. They're about the relationships we have with each other. — Mia Hamm

My whole family is missing that sports gene. I hope I didn't screw that up by marrying a great golfer. — Penn Jillette

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland ... — Elizabeth Bowen

Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances. — Floyd Mayweather Jr.

I'm a huge fan of wrestling, and I would like to see the position of women in the sport continue to improve, so if I can be a part of it, great. — Ronda Rousey

First of all, it would be great for world football to have a competitive Chinese team as China traditionally has deep relation to sports in general. — Berti Vogts

Perseverance is a great element of success. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. — Ernest Hemingway,

Every great batter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is of the pitcher. — Ty Cobb

My advice is that going to the Olympics and winning a gold medal are great goals, but the real goal should be to be the best that you can be. — Debi Thomas

Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent. — Agnes Smedley

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. — Nick Faldo

Great sport has intellectual beauty. — Rick Carlisle

Sports executives are great at convincing themselves whatever they believe is right and simply has to be. — Michael Wilbon

In Boston, they love their sports celebrities. And it's great. — Tom Brady

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. — Deion Sanders

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions. — David Halberstam

Sportswriters are what make sports great and fun to watch. — Derek Jeter

Great web design without functionality is like a sports car with no engine. — Paul Cookson

If you make it into an Olympic team, you're good; if you make it into an Olympic final, you're great; and if you win an Olympic medal you're a freak. — Raelene Boyle

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out. — Tim McCarver

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure. — Joe Paterno

If you can eliminate the yelling and listen to the message, there's a great message there. — Joey Galloway

I didn't play a great deal of sport in primary school. It was not until I went away to boarding school in Sussex that I really got into sport. — Frank Bruno

Winning is a great deodorant. — John Madden

The great thing about sports is you constantly have to prove yourself. You constantly have to go out there and do it, day in and day out. — Grant Hill

We're looking forward to a great season at the University of California - if we find a way to put cleats on their sandals. — Ronald Reagan

Sports were supposed to be a reflection of life, a life lesson, a test of endurance and strength, a great preparation for the real world. — Harlan Coben

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. — Jane Austen

It's great to be able to continue my career in Chicago. Playing with the best organization in sports and the best fans in the game is a blessing. — Patrick Kane

So if you want great sports, Michigan's the place to be. — Rick Snyder

Don't be good, be great. Strive to be exceptional. Picture yourself making a great play. Don't let anyone stop you. — Dan Hampton

As a youngster, I enjoyed sport and my ambition was to be a great sportsman. — Lynn Davies

Great sport begins at a point where it has ceased to be healthy. — Bertolt Brecht

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport. — Debi Thomas

My job is to teach them to believe they could perform better than they realize. Great coaches teach athletes to go beyond the barriers. — John Roderick

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models. — Bill Bradley

The world is filled with great sporting events. — Alex Berenson

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it. — Earl Blaik

Some sports teams hate each other in the locker room and that's what makes them great. — Ira Kaplan

The great thing about playing team sport is you win and lose together, and the pain is never as bad when you share it. — Brian O'Driscoll

Don't just stand back and play the way you're coached. A great player must rise to the occasion and turn the game around on his own. — Joe Paterno

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio. — Chick Hearn

When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. — Pat Riley

Sport has the power to inspire and unite people. In Africa, soccer enjoys great popularity and has a particular place in the hearts of people. — Nelson Mandela

Don't wait to be a great man; be a great boy! — Ralph Jordan

These days the temptation to use steroids in sports has become too great for many young athletes. — Jim Sensenbrenner

They were miserable at sports, but great at fantasy sports. They avoided fights, but sought arguments. — Jonathan Safran Foer

I tried to play every sport. I wasn't great at most of them, but at least I tried! — Britt Robertson

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person. — Curt Flood

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences. — Kobe Bryant

Maybe one of the qualities of being a great coach is being [a jerk]. There are quite a few of them around. — Larry Robinson

I see great things in baseball. — Walt Whitman

Boxing has been great for me because it's, like, my new sport, so it's something that I can get better at. — Gigi Hadid

The great thing about America, what I've loved about it, is how sports-friendly it is. In America, sports are respected and loved. — Eric Braeden

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. — Herbert Hoover

Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor. — Carmelo Anthony

I had a great interest in sports. I had three older brothers who were great athletes. I was not. — George J. Mitchell

A player who makes a team great is better than a great player. — John Wooden

Losing is the great American sin. — Jerome Holtzman