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"I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did," baseball legend and Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra is said to have said. Berra is one of the most oft-quoted characters not only in baseball history, but in all of sports. Then again, he also claimed, "I never said most of the things I said." Other sports figures have been a little more inspirational. | |
If at First You Don't Succeed
"I've missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." -Michael Jordan.
| Breaking the Four-Minute Mile
"Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead." -Roger Bannister.
| You Can't Win Them All
"It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner." -Vince Lombardi.
| A Miracle on Ice
"Eleven seconds, you've got 10 seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow up to Silk. Five seconds left in the game. Do you believe in miracles? ... Yes!" -broadcaster Al Michaels on Feb. 22, 1980, calling the final moments of the U.S. Olympic hockey team's theretofore unthinkable win over the USSR.
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