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Quotes About Passion

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.
~ Philip Wrigley
Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.
~ Monica Seles
It is impossible to grow weary of a sport that is never the same on any two days of the year.
~ Theodore Gordon
Now I am not running to please sponsors or to be the No.1 U.S. runner. Now I look at each step I get to take as a gift. I run because I love to run. I want to be able to run until I am 90 years old.
~ Suzy Favor Hamilton
Passion is pushing myself when there is no one else around-just me and the road.
~ Ryan Shay
Every passion has its destiny.
~ Billy Mills
The other sports are just sports. Baseball is a love.
~ Bryant Gumbel
Baseball is dull only to dull minds.
~ Red Barber
I enjoyed every bit of my swimming career. I think that's the most important advice - to enjoy what you do
~ Summer Sanders
Sport must be amateur or it is not sport. Sports played professionally are entertainment.
~ Avery Brundage
Sports are my passion and I really enjoy connecting with others who share my love of the game
~ Tessa Bonhomme
After you've done it for so many years, you have to find a new direction. You have to find something in your soul that's going to push you towards - to find your inspiration.
~ Elvis Stojko
I've always been a slave to my heart.
~ Willie Stargell
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
~ Vince Carter
Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.
~ Simon Kuper, Soccernomics
Sports don't matter in the grand scheme of things. But in the moment, when things are just right, they're the most important thing in the world. That's what makes them so great.
~ David Poole
Life without sports is like life without underpants
~ Billy Bowden
Find something you love, and go after it, with all of your heart.
~ Jim Abbott
The best thing you can do is to keep riding your snowboard and love what you're doing. Without a passion for the sport it's difficult to take your riding to the next level.
~ Mark McMorris
The only thing that counts is your dedication to the game. You run on your own fuel; it comes from within you.
~ Paul Brown
Lacrosse is probably the best sport I ever played.
~ Jim Brown
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
~ William Makepeace Thackeray
I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.
~ Cathy Freeman
I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.
~ Ty Cobb