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Baseball3 quotes
You play ball like a girl! — Ham Porter · 1993Making love is like hitting a baseball: you just gotta relax and concentrate. — Annie Savoy · 1988The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again, but baseball has marked the time. This field, this game, it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. — Terence Mann · 1989Going for it3 quotes
Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong. — The Babe · 1993Now, we go out there and we half-ass it because we're scared, all we're left with is an excuse. We're always gonna wonder. But, we go out there and we give it absolutely everything...that's heroic. Let's be heroes! — Mox · 1999Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by. — The Babe · 1993Winning3 quotes
Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. — Gloria Clemente · 1992We're in the business of winning. — Coach Gary Gaines · 2004If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980Winning and losing3 quotes
On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. — Gloria Clemente · 1992If you win, you win. If you lose, you still win. There's no way you can lose. — Joey LaMotta · 1980Aging2 quotes
Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down. — Sonny Weaver Jr. · 2014Effects of time2 quotes
Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down. — Sonny Weaver Jr. · 2014Facing one's fears2 quotes
Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong. — The Babe · 1993Let me tell you something kid. Everybody gets one chance to do something great. Most people never take the chance, either cause they're too scared, or they don't recognize it when it spits on their shoes. This is your big chance and you shouldn't let it go by. — The Babe · 1993Football2 quotes
You're a goddamn quarterback! You know what that means? It's the top spot, kid. It's the guy who takes the fall. It's the guy everybody's looking at first—the leader of a team—who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe. That's a quarterback. — Tony D'Amato · 1999We will be perfect in every aspect of the game. You drop a pass, you run a mile. You miss a blocking assignment, you run a mile. You fumble the football, and I will break my foot off in your John Brown hind parts and then you will run a mile. Perfection. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Losing2 quotes
Sometimes when you win, you really lose, and sometimes when you lose, you really win, and sometimes when you win or lose, you actually tie, and sometimes when you tie, you actually win or lose. — Gloria Clemente · 1992Come on, if you're act like a loser, raise your hand. If you're gonna act like pussy, raise your hand. — Tony D'Amato · 1999Mistakes2 quotes
Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for. — Roy Hobbs · 1984You don't make no mistakes? You be out here shootin', but you don't miss no shots ever? Ever? People make mistakes! People veer off the path! So what? God forgives them! — Jake Shuttlesworth · 1998Taking risks2 quotes
If you build it, he will come. — Shoeless Joe Jackson · 1989Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die. Follow your heart, kid, and you'll never go wrong. — The Babe · 1993Time2 quotes
Time beat him. Time, you know, takes everybody out, it's undefeated. — Rocky Balboa · 2015No one can stop a ticking clock, but the great ones, the great ones always find a way to slow it down. — Sonny Weaver Jr. · 2014Actions have consequences1 quote
Some mistakes I guess we never stop paying for. — Roy Hobbs · 1984Adversity1 quote
It's supposed to be hard. If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. The hard is what makes it great. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992Africa1 quote
Yeah, Africa's my home. Damn America and what America thinks. Yeah, I live in America; but, Africa's the home of the black man. And I was a slave 400 years ago and I'm going back home to fight among my brothers. Yeah! — Muhammad Ali · 1996Aggression1 quote
You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it son. You got aggression that's even better, you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Attraction1 quote
Well, actually, nobody on this planet ever really chooses each other. I mean, it's all a question of quantum physics, molecular attraction, and timing. Why, there are laws we don't understand that bring us together and tear us apart. It's like pheromones. You get three ants together, they can't do dick. You get 300 million of them, they can build a cathedral. — Annie Savoy · 1988Authoritarianism1 quote
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Authority1 quote
This is no democracy. It is a dictatorship. I am the law. — Coach Herman Boone · 2000Being in love1 quote
I've loved you since I was eleven, and the shit won't go away. — Monica Wright · 2000Believing in oneself1 quote
My whole life, people have been telling me what I could do and couldn't do. I’ve always listed to ’em, believed in what they said. I don’t wanna do that anymore. — Daniel E. 'Rudy' Ruettiger · 1993Black identity1 quote
Yeah, Africa's my home. Damn America and what America thinks. Yeah, I live in America; but, Africa's the home of the black man. And I was a slave 400 years ago and I'm going back home to fight among my brothers. Yeah! — Muhammad Ali · 1996Boxing1 quote
Boxin' is about respect. Gettin' it for yourself, and takin' it away from the other guy. — Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris · 2004Character1 quote
On any given Sunday you're either gonna win or you're gonna lose. — Tony D'Amato · 1999Competition1 quote
We're in the business of winning. — Coach Gary Gaines · 2004Controlling one's anger1 quote
You got anger, that's good you're gonna need it son. You got aggression that's even better, you're gonna need that, too. But any little two-year-old child can throw a fit! Football is about controlling that anger, harnessing that aggression into a team effort to achieve perfection! — Coach Herman Boone · 2000David and Goliath1 quote
Let's win this one for all the small schools that never had a chance to get here. — Merle · 1986Dog eat dog world1 quote
Look man, it goes like this, you either smoke or you get smoked. And you got smoked. — Sidney Deane · 1992Doing a good job1 quote
Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992Doing things the right way1 quote
Well, anything worth doing is worth doing right. — Jimmy Dugan · 1992