#sports

I played a lot of sports when I was a kid so I get in that ballgame mindset of being really, really respectful, but at same time saying to yourself, 'Don't back down a single inch, hang with these guys if you can.' If they throw it high and tight you have to stand in there, you can't take yourself out of that moment. ↗

— Michael Keaton

#ballgame #being #down #get #guys

I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#baseball #food #life #life-lesson #orange

You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#ask #both #ex-wives #game #husbands

The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#failures #front #man #nothing #page

There are two things that come very easily to me: rooting for New York sports teams and making mistakes. ↗

— Harvey Weinstein

#easily #making #making mistakes #me #mistakes

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. ↗

— Venus Williams

#body #i #like #mind #much

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together. ↗

— Venus Williams

#along #athletes #because #brings #everyone

This is what it means to be a fanatic - but a fanatic, that is to say, in a very special sense. It has little in common with the obsession of the politician or the artist, for instance, for both of these understand in a greater or lesser degree the impulse which drives them. But the sportsman fanatic - that is another matter entirely. His thoughts fixed solely on a vision of that mounted trophy against the wall, the eyes now dead that were once living, the tremulous nostrils stilled, the sensitive pricked ears closed to sound at the instant when the rifle shot echoed from the naked rocks, this man hunts his quarry through some instinct unknown even to himself. Stephen was a sportsman of this kind. It was not the skill needed that drove him, nor the delight and excitement of the stalk itself, but a desire, so I told myself, to destroy something beautiful and rare. Hence his obsession with chamois. ("The Chamois") ↗

— Daphne du Maurier

#hunting #sportsman #trophy #beauty

Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. It’s a fact of nature that no one can change. I’m sorry, but maybe you can play next time when it’s less crucial. ↗

— Francine Pascal

#sports #sweet-valley #change

I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating. ↗

— Dave Barry

#sports #humor