Sport
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It was like the arena was empty and I was just shooting free-throws.
—Michael Jordan when asked what it was like to score 69 points, his single-game high
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
—Wayne Gretzky
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If you have everything under control, you're not moving fast enough.
—Mario Andretti
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Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.
—Tim Notke
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The more I practice,
the luckier I get.
—Gary Player
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Under duress, we don't rise to the level of our expectations. We fall to the level of our training.
—Bruce Lee
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Pressure is a privilege.
—Billie Jean King
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You want to be nervous.
—Jimmy Chin
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The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
—Vince Lombardi
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Good teams become great when the members trust each other enough to surrender the 'me' for the 'we'.
—Phil Jackson
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Lose as if you like it. Win as if you were used to it.
—Tommy Hitchcock
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If God wanted games to end in a tie, she wouldn’t have invented numbers.
—Ted Lasso
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I never lost a game. I just ran out of time.
—Michael Jordan
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This ain't something you could go home and be like, I wanna get in Beast Mode, I wanna get in Beast Mode. Nah, Beast Mode is already inside of you.
—Marshawn Lynch
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It ain't over 'til it's over.
—Yogi Berra
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Rodman explains the triangle offense
Kawhi Leonard’s bouncing buzzer beater
Clutchest NBA players of all time
Flow: Klay Thompson’s 37 points in one quarter
Warriors’ 51-point first quarter
Steph · no-look 3’s · unfair
50 times Steph broke the internet
The biggest upset in Superbowl history
Every Deion Sanders NFL touchdown
1986 Mets/Red Sox game 6 Mookie Wilson epic at-bat
Dan Osman · Dean Potter · Lynn Hill · Katie Brown · Chris Sharma · Alex Honnold
30 greatest WrestleMania moments
Tony Hawk lands first ever 900
Garry Kasparov · Magnus Carlsen
When a 13 year-old Magnus Carlsen forced Garry Kasparov to a draw
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The oppressive seeds of the Colin Kaepernick backlash
A brief history of racial protest in sports
Why racism comes to the surface when teams lose
Sports & social justice (Harvard Business Review)
Sports & social justice (Anti-Defamation League)
What science can tell sportswriters about why we love sports
What modern sports tell us about human nature
Live sports is an act of social imagination
America didn’t need sports after all
We could all learn a thing or two from fans of lousy sports teams
The accidental spectator’s guide to improving sports
Sports are great because they’re pointless