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George Orwell famously described international sport as 'war minus the shooting'. But for all Orwell's greatness as a thinker, this was one of his least felicitous lines, analogous to 'murder minus the death' or 'life minus the breathing'.

George [Steinbrenner] is a great guy, unless you have to work for him.

Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.

Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

Girls gave sex to get love and boys gave love to get sex and conning girls was the favorite indoor sport.

Give me a sport that is greater than wrestling, that's more dominant than wrestling and with more champions in fighting than with wrestling. There isn't. The sport that's king is wrestling.

Given the diverse raiment life sports, one never knows what the guises of the gods may be.

Give your players something they can physically do - don't ask them to do something they can't do.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for

Global sports tournaments have a range of benefits that go far beyond the games themselves. They can transform the image of a country or a region. They bring people together and reveal new possibilities to a nation's youth.

Goalkeeping is like extreme sports sometimes - you have to let yourself go

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Act as though it were impossible to fail.

God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.

God gets you to the plate, but once you're there you're on your own.

God gives all to those, who get up early.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

God, I'm glad I grew up in a time when kids followed sports in the newspaper and on TV and knew every sport.

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.

God, my parents, my wife. I don't have a lot of friends, because I'm always moving around. I don't drink, so I don't hang out in bars. But they've been very big in my life. Because they have helped to encourage me.

Going in is really more of an acknowledgment that kids in poverty, in their situations, can get out of it, and it doesn't always come from sports.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

Go into the sport because you have fun doing it, not because of 'what ifs' and dreams of gold medals. That way, no matter what happens, you win.

Going into that race I was going for the world record, just quietly, but I wasn't feeling at my best all week so it was hard to determine what would happen. I could not believe it, I went into shock, I'm still in shock.

Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.

Golfers are the greatest worriers in the world of sport.

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

Golf is the only-est sport. You're completely alone with every conceivable opportunity to defeat yourself. Golf brings out your assets and liabilities as a person. The longer you play, the more certain you are that a man's performance is the outward manifestation of who, in his heart, he really thinks he is.

Golf is the only sport I know of where a player pays for every mistake. A man can muff a serve in tennis, miss a strike in baseball, or throw an incomplete pass in football and still have another chance to square himself. In golf, every swing counts against you.

Golfers are forever working on mechanics. My tennis swing hasn't changed in 10 years.

Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

Golf inflicts more pain than any other sport. If you're the sort of person whose self-worth is tied up in how you play, golf will cut you to the core of who you are.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Golf is no longer a game of hitting the ball, finding it, and hitting it again. There is wind to be measured, whether that means tossing blades of grass in the air or studying the gentle movement of 60-foot high branches. There are caddie conferences for even the most routine shots. There are sports psychologists who tell players not to hit until they're ready.

Golf isn't a sport, it's a game. I'm not saying it's not a difficult game, with lots of mental stuff. But it's not a sport like mine. Where is the combat, the intensity of what we do?

Golf is one of the few sports where a white man can dress like a black pimp and not look bad.

Golf is the only sport that a professional can enjoy playing with his friends.

Golf course design is exciting.

Golf is a bloodless sport-if you don't count ulcers.

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.

Golf is the crack of sports. If you hit five good shots, you know you can hit six good shots. The next time you hit six good shots, you know you can hit seven.

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's a game of bad shots.

Golf is played with the arms.

Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.

Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game.

Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish.

Good is the enemy of great.

Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.

Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.

Good players win volleyball games for you, not tall players.