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The Six W's: Work will win when wishing won't.

The slow-motion replay doesn't show how fast the ball was really travelling.

The situation was, the team I was on when I got injured went down to the lower leagues. In America, they don't have that relegation, so when the team went down to the lower region, every player has his value, and they went off and sold any player who had value.

The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.

The speed of a runaway horse counts for nothing.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

The sport of horse racing which, at its best, showcases the majestic beauty of this animal and the athleticism of jockeys, has reached an alarming level of corruption and exploitation.

The sport of wrestling is a tremendous builder of the values and characteristics which are needed to succeed in any walk of life. Much of what I have managed to achieve in life I owe directly to the years I spent in the wrestling room, as an athlete and a coach. Wrestling is a great educational tool.

The sports are also hard on my body, and I do have a longstanding bad back due to an injury some years ago. I don't regret any part of it though. I love what I do and my sporting career has taken me to some wonderful places and seeing the world.

The 'Sports Illustrated' cover was the last thing I shot. That week, I told my agent, 'You know what, I really... I don't want to be a model anymore. I really want to do movies.' And I think he wanted to wring my neck at the moment.

The sport to which I owe so much has undergone profound changes, but it's still baseball. Kids still imitate their heroes on playgrounds. Fans still ruin expensive suits going after foul balls that cost five dollars. Hitting streaks still make the network news and hot dogs still taste better at the ballpark than at home.

The stable funding announced today will allow Special Olympics to grow and benefit an increasing number of Canadians. I am proud that our Government is committed to providing opportunities for Canadians of all ages and all abilities to engage in sport and physical activity and to enjoy an active and healthy lifestyle.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.

The sport of digging the bait is nearly equal to that of catching the fish, when one's appetite is not too keen.

The sport of volleyball will never give you something that you can't handle; whether you do handle it is another question.

The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing the world was where to put all the parties.

The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.

The sport would not survive today if drivers were being killed at the rate they were in the 1960s and '70s. It would have been taken off the air. It is beamed into people's living rooms on Sunday afternoons, with children watching.

The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork and communication skills before he can achieve the ultimate in sport

The sport and game of angling is the true means and cause that brings a man into a merry spirit, which makes a flowering age and a long one.

The sport has changed so much since 2004, it's incredible. If you look even at me, the way I'm fencing now compared to 2004, it's a completely different sport. They've changed so many things just with what [the referees] are calling, they've changed the timing of the [scoring] lights. You always have to be evolving as a fencer. The Olympics is interesting because it's such a small field compared to what we're used to. This world championships, I think we had a hundred and something [athletes]. The Olympics is going to be less than 32.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

The sport needs the cash cow back.

The starting line of the New York Marathon is kind of like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport.

The sport of business is the ultimate competition. It's 7 × 24 × 365 × forever.

The sports of children satisfy the child.

The stakes ... are too high for government to be a spectator sport.

The start is what stops most people.

The stiffer the penalty, the greater the message is sent.

The sterner the discipline, the greater the devotion.

The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who perform great feats before friendly crowds. Greatness in major league sports is the ability to win in a stadium filled with people who are pulling for you to lose.

The student body was huge at UT and you had to mature pretty quick, very quick actually. I enjoyed it and it helped me a lot in my life in general - not only in the classroom but on the baseball field as well.

The strength of the group is the strength of the leaders.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

The substitute that thinks his place below him, will certainly be below his place.

The study of motivation goes back to the Greeks. Their sports were essential to their education. They saw in sports the integration of body, mind and soul, the creation of beauty, the mastering of athletics, and the challenge of competition. A French sociologist points this out. "Sports," he wrote, was part of the education of the citizen. He was expected to engage in exercise for a whole series of reasons that had to do with the shaping of the citizen; the relation between moral good and physical good; and the growth of a person.

The sun has been there for 500, 600 years.

The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.

The taste of defeat has a richness of experience all its own.

The team which handles the pressure best, carries the day.

The team with the best athletes doesn't usually win. It's the team with the athletes who play best together.

The tempt for greatness is the biggest drug in the world.

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

The thing about sport, any sport, is that swearing is very much part of it.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

The thing about sports movies is, they can't help but feel epic - putting music to images, etc.