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Sports Quotes by David Halberstam
- Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.
- Rowing, particularly sculling, inflicts on the individual in every race a level of pain associated with few other sports. There was certainly pain in football…
- In team sports the athletes were bonded by each other, there was an immense peer pressure to keep going. One dared not miss a practice…
- Physically, rowing was remarkable resistant to the camera... the camera liked power exhibited more openly, and the power of the oarsmen [is] exhibited in far…
More Sports Quotes
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever; I was… — J. J. Abrams
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on. — Lance Armstrong
- The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight. — Arthur Ashe
- There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.' — Arthur Ashe
- Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch… — Red Auerbach
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is… — Richard Bach