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Huey Lewis Musician
Sports

"Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time."

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Paul Allen Businessman, Philanthropist
Sports

"You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life."

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Bear Bryant Football Coach
Sports

"I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose."

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Bear Bryant Football Coach
Sports

"Most coaches study the films when they lose. I study them when we win -to see if I can figure out what I did right"

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Billie Jean King Tennis Player
Sports

"It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional."

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Venus Williams Tennis Player
Sports

"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."

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Vidal Sassoon Hairdresser
Sports

"Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special."

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Ted Williams Baseball Player
Sports

"There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game."

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Red Smith Sportswriter
Sports

"The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell."

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Snoop Dogg Rapper, Actor
Sports

"I am a sore loser. I've always been like that ever s'nce I started playin' sports and just life in general. I hate to lose and I play to win."

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