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Ball sports: To lose one's concentration on what is most important. Originates from general sporting advice to look continuously at the ball as it moves. take the (full) count Boxing: To be defeated. Refers to a boxer being knocked down, the referee counting off ten seconds, the time allotted for the boxer to regain his feet or lose the fight.
Sports critic Bill Mayo disagrees, saying that sports clichés are used "just the right amount," and "it is what it is." Former New York Giants quarterback -turned CBS broadcaster Phil Simms devotes a large portion of his 2004 book Sunday Morning Quarterback to examining football clichés such as "winning the turnover battle", "halftime ...
Portal:Sports/Selected quote/19 I think hockey is a game, a child's game, played by men and to play it effectively you must have fun just like children do. I've been with too many teams in sports through the years where you weren't allowed to open your mouth, you weren't allowed to laugh, you weren't allowed to question the coach or anyone in ...
4 quotes sports parents should live by from MLB player-turned-podcaster Jeff Francoeur. Stephen Borelli, USA TODAY. Updated November 26, 2024 at 11:12 AM.
Taylor Swift David Eulitt/Getty Images Taylor Swift became a bonafide sports fan after she started dating NFL star Travis Kelce in summer 2023. “Football is awesome, it turns out,” Swift ...
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Stephen Anthony Smith was born in the Bronx, a borough of New York City. He was raised in the Hollis section of Queens. [7] Smith is the youngest of six children. [2] [8] He has four older sisters and had an older brother, Basil, who died in a car accident in 1992.
According to the late James Michener's Sports in America, Lombardi claimed to have been misquoted. What he intended to say was "Winning isn't everything. The will to win is the only thing." [8] However, Lombardi is on record repeating the original version of the quotation on several occasions. [9]