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I come from a long line of sportsmen. -- Armin Zoggeler
This year my role is clear: I am a coach, a coach to sportsmen. -- Anatoli Boukreev
A room full of great sportsmen is so much better than a room full of actors. -- Clive Owen
Then in a fraction of a second, I realized that these sportsmen were not anyone's enemies. -- Bill Toomey
People complain professional sportsmen are locked away but when they get out and enjoy themselves, people have a go. -- Will Carling
Among sportsmen are the noble, the diligent and the caring, as there are the callous, the cheats and the criminals. -- Harsha Bhogle
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. -- Martina Navratilova
Botox should be banned for actors, as steroids are for sportsmen. Acting is all about expression; why would you want to iron out a frown? -- Rachel Weisz
Injuries is a part of a sportsmen life; you have to live with it. You can't be down with that; it is not gonna help you. -- Jeev Milkha Singh
For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body. -- Gary Neville
First, the firearms industry has been around and has been respected for generations. They provide a valuable service and a highly desirable product to millions of sportsmen and supporters of those second amendment rights. -- Cliff Stearns
To be sure, hunters and sportsmen back gun rights. Beyond that, there are millions who see guns as a defense against fear - fear of criminals breaking into their homes or assaulting them on city streets. -- Robert Dallek
I'm quite ignorant about fashion and I'm colourblind, so it's all a tad tricky. My only knowledge of that world comes through Christopher Bailey, whom I first met in 2008 when I did a campaign for Burberry that featured musicians, artists, actors and sportsmen. -- Eddie Redmayne
I feel sorry sometimes for these sportsmen and women who put in just as much effort as the footballers. For example, athletes train at least as hard as footballers but have to be happy if they can earn enough to finance a decent education. -- Angela Merkel
Historically, China is not a nation of sportsmen. We traditionally put more emphasis on being close to nature than pushing endlessly to excel. A philosophy that values tranquil contemplation of the landscape cannot easily be adapted to the Olympic slogan of 'higher, stronger, faster.' -- Ai Weiwei
Apart from being celebrities, there's a huge amount of respect associated with being cricketers and a certain amount of reverence and honour associated with representing India. In people's eyes, apart from other celebrities in India, I think for sportsmen in India there's a certain amount of regard. -- Rahul Dravid
True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. -- Alexander Pope
It's this no-nonsense side of women that is pleasant to deal with. They are the real sportsmen. -- Phyllis McGinley
In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst -- Martina Navratilova
Let us play the game of life as sportsmen, pocketing our winnings with a smile, leaving our losings with a shrug. -- Jerome K. Jerome
Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this. -- Nick Hornby
And nobody is talking about taking guns away from hunters or sportsmen or banning all guns. Nobody is talking about that. -- Al Gore
For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others. -- Ian Botham
The white tails of rabbits, according to some theologians, have a purpose, namely to make it easier for sportsmen to shoot them. -- Bertrand Russell
I've never pumped myself up or made myself angry as some sportsmen do. I think that one should treat his opponent with great respect. -- Fedor Emelianenko
She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley. -- Barack Obama
Of course sportsmen and women are not only great role models, they are great fashion models too, as they are at the peak of physical perfection. -- Giorgio Armani
The sciences, even the best,-mathematics and astronomy,-are like sportsmen, who seize whatever prey offers, even without being able to make any use of it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The quarrels of theologians and philosophers have not been about religion, but about philosophy; and philosophers not unfrequently seem to entertain the same feeling toward theologians that sportsmen cherish toward poachers. -- Thomas Huxley
I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result. -- Jill Douglas
A clear enunciation of these rights needs to be enshrined in the constitution to guarantee that this basic right of law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen shall not be infringed upon by anti-gun public officials. -- Charlton Heston

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