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The greatest owner in professional sports history is Eddie DeBartolo. -- Ronnie Lott
I've been very fortunate to play for four great organizations, but New York really takes the cake. Wearing the pinstripes is something that's very special to me, and it's the greatest organization in sports history. -- Mark Teixeira
There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen -- Rio Ferdinand
There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen. -- Rio Ferdinand
I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy. -- Bob Hayes
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We knew it was going to be the biggest event scheduled in the history of women's sports, but we didn't ever fathom we would be playing before sold-out stadiums all over the country. -- Lorrie Fair
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy. -- Shimon Peres
Over the years, I've enjoyed working for WFAN and MSG - two sports giants in the industry. There couldn't be a better fit due to the long-standing history both entities have had with NY sports. -- Boomer Esiason
I suspect millions of people from my generation probably have comparable stories to tell: if not of sports simulations then of Dungeons & Dragons, or the geopolitical strategy of games like Diplomacy, a kind of chess superimposed onto actual history. -- Steven Johnson
On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues. -- Nancy Gibbs
In terms of history and sports, I don't think people will forget. -- Kristine Lilly
I'm not a TV junkie outside of sports and history really and stuff like that. -- Billy Bob Thornton
I might be the most injured athlete in the history of sports. I've had 31 operations. An endless string of stress fractures. -- Bill Walton
If Lance is clean, it is the greatest comeback in the history of sports. If he isn't, it would be the greatest fraud. -- Greg LeMond
Institutionalised in sports, the military, acculturated sexuality, the history and mythology of heroism, violence is taught to boys until they becomes its advocates. -- Andrea Dworkin
David Stern might be the smartest executive in the history of professional sports. His obsession with the Vagrant Kings is one of the strangest stories. -- R.E. Graswich

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