I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.


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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this s...
DANA HUSSEIN
The sport has pretty much taken over my life. I love it because you're not competing with anyone but...
LOGAN WHITE
I love it. I love the sport.
DOUG WAECHTER
Ballooning isn't a sport; it's a way of life. (People) love their balloons. They tailgate.
JACK PONTICELLI
This is what I know. It'd be stupid if I didn't coach. I love the sport and I love coaching, and I'm...
CHRIS FOX
I love playing sport.
DAMIAN LEWIS
I love the sport and being competitive.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love badminton. That's my sport!
OLGA KURYLENKO
One day when I was playing, I just decided I love this sport.
JENNIFER WILSON
The sport of shooting is my life.
MICHAEL DIAMOND
Love the sport, love to shoot. We don't miss a single one.
RANDY BUTLER
I want to be part of a baseball team, and the sport will always be part of my life. It has been a pa...
CORY GALLAGHER
I kind of feel like I'm giving back to the sport I love so much.
DENISE BROOKS
Some people who love boxing might love Mike Tyson, but people outside of the sport are generally rep...
DICK SCHAAP
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.
DAN QUAYLE
The life of this world is but a sport and a pastime.
ANONYMOUS
I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals...
CANELO ALVAREZ
I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.
ALLYSON FELIX
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE
I grew up with an idealized version of the sport, that people do it because they love horses. I gues...
JAMES HASTIE
The love of the sport. And the love of the feeling of being free. It's just you and the hill.
ELNORA BUECHLER
If I leave this sport, I think life will stop.
DANA HUSSEIN
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the...
CARL LEWIS
I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport ...
DANIEL CORMIER
I love lacrosse. I love this sport, I love this team . . . I sat willingly on the bench last year kn...
BRIAN LANGTRY
Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.
BERNARD HINAULT
I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a compet...
JAMES TAYLOR
Romanes eunt domus
LIFE OF BRIAN
Both guys put in a lot of time volunteering because they love the sport, and I'm thankful for their ...
BRINT RUSSELL
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
BONNIE BLAIR
I love the way this sport has evolved and impacted every segment of society. Now you have cross trai...
LEE HANEY
I love football, but basketball is my favorite sport. All the scholarship offers I received were for...
CURTIS BROWN
I would love a skipping rope. My body wants to play sport.
SCHAPELLE CORBY
The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES
The whole sport is odd, but within the sport it's even an odd kind of race because of the fact that ...
DON ALLISON
My teammates get me fired me up. The sport fires me up man, I love lacrosse. I love being out here.
ERIC TYLER
There are hurdles to overcome in sport and in life. Sport is a very valuable learning ground for how...
LYNN DAVIES
I've been involved in sport right through my life.
LYNN DAVIES
Amazingly enough, athletic achievement is one of those things that seems larger than life at points....
JOHN CENA
Everyday there's something that reminds me why I love this sport.
BERNARD HINAULT
I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage...
ALFIE ALLEN
My first love is the sport, and it will always be my priority.
LINFORD CHRISTIE
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can cha...
BRYAN CLAY
I'd had 35 professional fights and mentally I was tired of it. I'd sort ot fallen out of lov...
BARRY MCGUIGAN
When I took on the title sponsorship of the Western European League and the World Cup Final in Octob...
REEM ACRA
Love is a contact sport you were born to win.
SUZETTE R. HINTON
That's kind of neat. We're not racing for the money. We're doing it because we love the sport. Anyth...
CINDY KLASSEN
What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagi...
JEFFREY KATZENBERG
That's what I love about tennis: As an individual sport, you can't hide behind teammates.
CAROLINE WOZNIACKI
I, personally, participate because I have been a life-long snowmobile enthusiast and I would like to...
GARY DIEHL
I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national televi...
NOVAK DJOKOVIC
I'm amazed at how far our kids have come and the coolest thing about this sport is we have kids from...
CHARLOTTE FRENCH
We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE
I love life because what more is there?
ANTHONY HOPKINS
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON
I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
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They tell me, shaking their heads:
"You should be kinder. You are somehow furious".

...
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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This is bound to have a negative effect on relations. Washington will see this as creating instabili...
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Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
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Neither ecology, nor other factors make it necessary to raise the submarine,
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You guys ... don't forget who's the boss in the world.
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The country was brought back from the edge of the abyss. He gave us freedom.
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We have worked out a certain program which we believe could avoid an armed confrontation and eventua...
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Quickly passing the budget will strengthen our stance in the talks with international financial orga...
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The question is whether we're ready to undertake responsibility for overcoming the crisis or will ag...
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We condemn the United States, and nobody should doubt our negative attitude,
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done our job as we could, professionally, and I believe it has been good.
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