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All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds… — Mike Royko
Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;… — George Eliot
People talk about skating, puck handling and shooting, but the whole sport is angles and caroms, forgetting the straight direction the puck is going, calculating… — Wayne Gretzky
There is no position in sport as noble as goaltending. — Vladislav Tretiak
Play with passion and heart. If you don't carry passion into sport - or into any job for that matter - you won't succeed. — Phil Esposito
This is how [the] sport has contributed to my personality, toughness and discipline. I have a plan, and I work on it. I was going… — Svetlana Khorkina
After thorough reflection, I realized that my desire to achieve my goals in this sport outweighed my self-doubt. This perseverance has helped me to be… — Jonathan Horton
I personally support the type of gymnastics which does not exceed a certain amount of acrobatics and risks because then one can still say: what… — Ludmilla Tourischeva
Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls. — Unknown Author
By continually increasing the difficulty of the sport, we are discouraging younger athletes from starting and continuing in the sport. But most importantly, we are… — Svetlana Boginskaya
[Alexei Nemov] has the best feel for the aesthetics of the sport. He doesn't just do a skill; he makes it look gorgeous. Some gymnasts… — Peter Vidmar
Gymnastics is the type of sport where you can't take something that gives you more energy. Something may be great for the vault, but then… — Shannon Miller
If you lose the nerves, you lose the sport. — Shawn Johnson
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… — Shannon Miller
First, don't cry. That's the worst thing a gymnast can do in training, because it can ruin your concentration and lead to injury. Second, always… — Unknown Author
In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25… — Unknown Author
Gymnastics is not at all as popular as, for example, soccer. Gymnastics as a sport isn't promoted very well. — Unknown Author
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. — Alistair Cooke
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves. — Rita Mae Brown
Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph. — Peter Dunne
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play. — Simon Gray
Mainly, I like to have fun. Swimming is all about having fun, and I am firm believer that you should keep swimming as long as… — Unknown Author
This is a sport (wrestling) that has turned many boys into men and many men into leaders. And it is a sport in which you… — Carl Albert
Sport, like all of life, is about taking your chances. — Roger Bannister
What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter at around forty,… — John Updike

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