Sports Quotes
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. All sports for all people. Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
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