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Sportswriter Inspirational Quotes (518)

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I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.
Mitch Albom
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A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.
Diana Nyad
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There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.
Katherine Dunn
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I do not plan any painting, but begin with layers of textures and colors. As I layer the colors, something is suggested to me from within, and that is how it evolves.
Katherine Dunn
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Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
Mitch Albom
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This is what it is to live in the world. You have to give yourself over to the cold, at least a little bit.
Anne Ursu
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Sometimes superheroes are born, sometimes they are made. Sometimes they make themselves. Sometimes all it takes is will.
Anne Ursu
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The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.
Will McDonough
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once we began to chime the hour, we lost the ability to be satisfied
Mitch Albom
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We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Mitch Albom
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Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.
Mitch Albom
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You can't equate the game we play to a war. Kellen Winslow said he's a soldier. No, he's not. This is not a war...not a good comparison.
Ken Rosenthal
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My worst is all out in the open. It makes it necessary for people to tell you about themselves.
Katherine Dunn
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There is a big confusion in this country over what we want verses what we need...you need food. You want a chocolate sundae.
Mitch Albom
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I don't want to be in the Jerry Sandusky business.
Bob Costas
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What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.
Roger Angell
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but then she did. she died. no more visits, no more phone calls. And without even realizing it, I began to drift, as if my roots had been pulled, as if I were floating down some side branch of a river.
Mitch Albom
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Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn
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If you really could fit God in a file, you wouldn't need to believe in God, you know, you'd just go get the file like a box of corn flakes off the shelf.
Mitch Albom
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If you can just immerse yourself in your life, it doesn't matter what you do everyday. Just do it intensely. Be in it, so that when you go to sleep you're exhausted every night and you say, 'Whoa, I just couldn't have done any more with that day.'
Diana Nyad
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Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.
Duff McKagan
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This is hardly a South African problem, of course. We are confronting nothing less than a global system of brutal misogyny. Too many men across the world see too many women as repositories of their rage, frustration, narcissism or simply their will to enact violence.
Dave Zirin
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When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.
Diana Nyad
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What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.
Katherine Dunn
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