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«If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.»
Author: Chris Evert (Tennis Player) | About: Sports | Keywords: accomplishment, react, stays, tennis
«In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.»
Author: Earl Weaver | About: Chance, Sports | Keywords: clock, game of chance
«In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.»
Author: Honus Wagner | About: Sports | Keywords: deliberately, ump, unfair
«If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.»
Author: Lila Acheson Wallace | About: Sports | Keywords: displayed
«If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.»
Author: Bob Hope (Actor, Comedian) | About: Golf, Sports | Keywords: re-creation, recreation, work at
«If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.»
«If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.»
«If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.»
«In baseball, you don't know nothing.»
Author: Yogi Berra (Baseball Player, Manager) | About: Sports | Keywords: know nothing
«If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them.»
Author: Yogi Berra (Baseball Player, Manager) | About: Sports | Keywords: come out, fans, park

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