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Sportswriter Inspirational Quotes (518)

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Freedom within any kind of social structure - the whole issue of exactly what the human animal is - is an ongoing preoccupation of mine. And I certainly don't think I've come to the end of that exploration, and with any luck, I never will. But I'm very curious about exactly what kind of beast we are. We're so complicated.
Katherine Dunn
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First and foremost, I would put a massive national emphasis on illiteracy with real markers that you could measure and real efforts to do a one-on-one kind of tutoring until kids can get up to snuff on that.
Mitch Albom
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Never let anyone tell you sports doesn't matter. Never let them tell you it's all about the wins, the losses and the stats. Sports is so much more than that.
Rick Reilly
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I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.
Roger Angell
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We're used to comeback stories in the world of sports, but the Gail Devers story is remarkable. This is a comeback from an illness which almost killed her.
Bob Costas
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If you could pack for heaven, this was how you'd do it, touching everything, taking nothing.
Mitch Albom
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For years, I stored my sweaters in the oven.
Lesley Visser
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You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.
Diana Nyad
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Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.
Roger Kahn
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People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.
Mitch Albom
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Mickey Mantle was baseball.
Bob Costas
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Horse racing is animated roulette.
Roger Kahn
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She had been so consumed with escaping her own misery, she hadn't considered the misery she might inflict.
Mitch Albom
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Accept what you are able to do and what you are not able to do. Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it. Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others. Don't assume that it's too late to get involved.
Mitch Albom
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You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship
Mitch Albom
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I made the wrong choice , I whispered. My mother shook her head. A child should never have to choose.
Mitch Albom
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Money is not a substitute for tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness.
Mitch Albom
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It goes in streaks. But some things never go out of fashion.' Hunger artists, fat folks, giants, and dog acts come and go but real freaks never lose their appeal.
Katherine Dunn
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The pride in finishing a marathon is much greater than all the pain endured during the marathon.
Hal Higdon
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If I were 50 years younger, I would kick your ass
Larry Merchant
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Sometimes just looking at [my parents] I wanted to bash their heads with a tire iron. Not to kill them, just to wake them up.
Katherine Dunn
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Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.
Mitch Albom
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when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
Mitch Albom
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Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth.
Larry Merchant
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