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Sports

«What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.»
«When I played pro football, I never set out to hurt anyone deliberately - unless it was, you know, important, like a league game or something»
«When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.»
«When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.»
«When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.»
«When I was 12, every little girl in Russia was trying to wear her hair like mine and playing tennis.»
«When I play, I feel like in a theatre, why should I look ugly then, because I'm a tennis-player?»
«What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player.»
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.»
«When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.»
Author: Will Rogers | About: Sports | Keywords: amateur, athlete, earned, pro, pros, The Pros