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«Golf is the hardest game in the world. There is no way you can ever get it. Just when you think you do, the game jumps up and puts you in your place.»
«?I?m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can?t be done.?»
«I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.»
«Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.»
Author: Mickey Mantle
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Heroism,
Sports
| Keywords:
beyond question, DiMaggio, Joe, Joe DiMaggio
«I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.»
Author: Reggie Jackson
| About:
Baseball,
Sports
| Keywords:
baseball player, butt, jerk, Loafer, loafers
«I've never timed myself over 100m, but I have done a test over shorter distances, 20m or 30m, with and without the ball. What's strange is that I'm faster with the ball than without it. Some people are born for distance running and others for sprint»
Author: Ronaldo
(Soccer Player)
| About:
Football,
Sports
| Keywords:
distances, Distance running, shorter, short run, sprint, timed
«I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.»
Author: Shaquille O'Neal
(Actor, Basketball Player, Rapper)
| About:
Basketball,
Sports
| Keywords:
high-priced, luckily, NBA, priced
«I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.»
Author: Branch Rickey
| About:
Sports
«How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.»
Author: Dwight David Eisenhower
(President)
| About:
Funny,
Golf,
Sports
| Keywords:
affected, golf game, retirement