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"I think boxing is a singular sport, because the stakes are so high and because it just appeals to people's primal instincts. It's a life and death sport, and it's a sport of sacrifice. It's a humbling sport, and people are coming from humbling circumstances. It's always fun to watch a person that's come from nothing to having everything and losing it again."
"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
"Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car."
"There's no room to Rhumba in a sports car."
"You know how sports teach kids teamwork and how to be strong and brave and confident? Improv was my sport. I learned how to not waffle and how to hold a conversation, how to take risks and actually be excited to fail."
"Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it."
"I hated skiing or any other sport where there was an ambulance waiting at the bottom of the hill."
"It is difficult to single out one sport over another, but if I have to name one in my separation suit, it will undoubtedly be football."
"Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script."
"Three events. Three gold medals. I was news, big news, in the sports world."
"We all know that Americans love their statistics - in sport, obviously. And in finance too."
"I am very happy because motor racing is very important outside the states, very big all over the world."
"Vladimir Nabokov was a writer who cared nothing for music and whose favorite sport was the pursuit, capture, and murder of butterflies. This explains many things; for example, the fact that Nabokov's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as butterflies pinned to a board: pretty but dead; symmetrical but stiff."
"Hockey,' mused Marcus. 'The sport of kings."
"I always separated sports and my personal life."
"Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again."
"I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me."
"Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all."
"Sports are not for everyone."
"England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics."
