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"Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it"
Dan Quayle, Vice President
"Thursday night football is here to stay. So we're looking at ways to make it safer. Now they're playing division games, so you limit travel. Now the question is, should you play Sunday night before a Thursday night?"
John Madden, Coach
"I tried golf for a while, but I wasn't very good at it, so I didn't play a lot of golf. I enjoy all sports, not just football. I like basketball, baseball, and I got into the World Cup. So really, sports in general are my life, and football specifically"
John Madden, Coach
"I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau Field in Green Bay. Soldier Field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums"
John Madden, Coach
"In baseball, you don't know nothing"
Yogi Berra, Athlete
"Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners"
John Steinbeck, Author
"I always get very calm with baseball"
Paul Simon, Musician
"Darts players are probably a lot fitter than most footballers in overall body strength"
Sid Waddell, Entertainer
"One day some guy is going to get a billion-dollar fight"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I love to hit people. I love to"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I have the same malice in my heart as far as the fight game is concerned, but outside the ring, I won't say anything a dignified man won't say"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them!"
Mike Tyson, Athlete
"I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat"
Babe Ruth, Athlete
"Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder"
Babe Ruth, Athlete
"As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy"
Babe Ruth, Athlete
"All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know, except it looked good"
Babe Ruth, Athlete
"I like ice hockey, but it's a frustrating game to watch. It's hard to keep your eyes on both the puck and the players, and too much time passes between scoring in hockey. There are usually more fights than there are points"
Andy Rooney, Journalist
"Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but it's good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt"
Andy Rooney, Journalist
"The only real happiness a ballplayer has is when he is playing a ball game and accomplishes something he didn't think he could do"
Ring Lardner, Comedian
"Racing, competing, it's in my blood. It's part of me, it's part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else"
Ayrton Senna, Celebrity
"I was already on pole, then by half a second, and then one second, and I just kept going. Suddenly, I was nearly two seconds faster than anybody else, including my team mate with the same car"
Ayrton Senna, Celebrity
"In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"In no way can sport be considered a luxury object"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"Swifter, higher, stronger"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement"
Pierre de Coubertin, Leader
"Boxing is like jazz. The better it is, the less people appreciate it"
George Foreman, Athlete
"And I realized that there was no sports reporter, so I started covering sporting events"
Ed Bradley, Journalist
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