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Sports10 quotes
You play to win the game. — Herm Edwards · 2002Do you believe in miracles? Yes! — Al Michaels · 1980Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting. — George Orwell · 1945But sport doesn’t build character....sports reveals character. — Heywood Broun · 1974It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti · 1977How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011All 10 quotes →Baseball3 quotes
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti · 1977How can you not be romantic about baseball? — Billy Beane · 2011You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. — Jim Bouton · 1970Competition1 quote
You play to win the game. — Herm Edwards · 2002Fatherhood1 quote
There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting the wrong team. — Nick Hornby · 1992Fathers and children1 quote
There must be many fathers around the country who have experienced the cruellest, most crushing rejection of all: their children have ended up supporting the wrong team. — Nick Hornby · 1992Morality1 quote
What I know most surely about morality and the duty of man I owe to sport. — Albert Camus · 1979Seasons1 quote
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone. — A. Bartlett Giamatti · 1977Soccer1 quote
Some people think football is a matter of life and death... I can assure them it is much more serious than that. — Bill Shankly · 1973Winning1 quote
You play to win the game. — Herm Edwards · 2002