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"I play chess about four hours a day in training camp. You have to decide what move to use, or what combination of moves. I think less when I box because the reaction time is a lot quicker, but some people call me the chess boxer because they say I think too much in the ring. I take my time and they don't see the action they want. Some boxers just go in there and just throw punches and hope to win."
"It is a matter of spirit, not strength. It is a matter of doing your best each little moment. There's never a break. You must have desire, a very intense desire to keep going."
"I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything."
"Ray Lewis knifed through those offensive linemen like a sucker-punch switchblade slicing between the ribs of some inebriated trash-talking punk outside a sports bar."
"All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It is a sport, like the silver fox. It happens."
"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."
"I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things."
"From nothing else but the brain come joys, delights, laughter and sports, and sorrows, griefs, despondency, and lamentations"
"My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person."
"Jamaica is more than just the 'brand' the world recognizes so well; it's a place of pride for the people who live here, its educational institutions, its sports achievements, its science and technology growth."
"Winning is great, but it's the l9ong road to get there that makes it worthwhile."
"It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans."
"You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that."
"My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes."
"It is not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts."
"If I could be good at any sport, it'd be javelin. I know a few people I would love to throw a spear at."
"Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world."
"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."
"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
"We need to look at our nannying, mollycoddled, politically correct culture in my view, which stops kids from going out and playing competitive sport. I also think we need to look at the shear fatness of the regulations which control people who want to help kids play sport."
