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• "Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph."
  By: Peter Dunne, 1992
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• "We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play."
  By: Pat Williams
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• "The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."
  By: Nick Seitz
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• "Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear."
  By: Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch, 1992
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• "The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order."
  By: Neville Cardus
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• "There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure."
  By: Mike Penner, Los Angeles Time
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• "To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun."
  By: Mary Russell Mitford, 1823
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• "Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience."
  By: Luke Neely, 1953
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• "Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time."
  By: Lou Brock
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• "[T]he finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end."
  By: Laurence Malone
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• "Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity."
  By: Lord Mancroft
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• "In play there are two pleasures for your choosing - The one is winning, and the other losing."
  By: Lord Byron
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• "Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness."
  By: Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988
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• "The main reason for doing it now ... had more to do with the players. This is a great group. This particular group has really worked hard to prepare themselves. And we have a chance to have a good football team."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "Reminiscing: No one knows ... until you live it, to be there, to tee it up each week, to get yourself ready, the players and whatever else.... I think it's a very, very difficult, tough and demanding job. And to be able to, particularly, stay at the level of expertise that we have over the years. Along with the fact that we have made football a presence at BYU. I think those are the things that are about as satisfying as anything that has happened. Then, of course, the players.... I think the thing that will be the most difficult is leaving the relationships and the involvement."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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• "Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good."
  By: LaVell Edwards
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