20-Feb-2019: Seconds into a game against arch-nemesis North Carolina Tar Heels, Duke University Blue Devils forward Zion Williamson, top college basketball player in the U.S. and an NBA prospect, twisted his knee when his Nike-made shoe exploded. Ironically, Nike once launched an ad campaign on the phrase "It's gotta be the shoes!"... and today it was...
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I'm a golfer, not an athlete. - Lee Westwood
Sports is human life in microcosm. - Howard Cosell
You just do it, then if you die, you die. - T. Scott McLeod
In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat. - Geoff Stults
One of my favorite aspects of basketball is good passing. - James Carville
Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns. - W S Gilbert
The largest room available to athletes is room for improvement. - Unknown
In Russia, if a male athlete loses he becomes a female athlete. - Yakov Smirnoff
Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up. - Bill Vaughn
I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights. - Joel Osteen
In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained. - Robert Graves
Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years. - Bobby Knight
The Internet treats censorship as a malfunction and routes around it. - John P Barlow
The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it. - Croft M. Pentz
God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball. - LeBron James
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Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind. - Laird Hamilton
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. - Paul Rodriguez
A great athlete does not come from muscle, speed, and skill, but from the mind first. - Dan E. Welker
I love extreme sports, I like snowboarding and motorcross and rollerblading and hockey. - Jeremy London
What you are as a person is far more important that what you are as a basketball player. - John Wooden
Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. - Shaquille O'Neal
Like you might love watching basketball, but that don't mean that you'll get on the court. - Lil Baby
Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it. - Emma Watson
There are only 3 true sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting and auto racing. All the rest are games. - Ernest Hemingway
Golf is like any other sports competition. There is not a whole lot of point to it unless someone suffers. - Kevin Wohl
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. - George Bernard Shaw
I played basketball in high school, and I love watching sports - I'll watch everything except maybe hockey. - Andy Roddick
I'm grateful that I never was that senior athlete who realized she'd done nothing but train all her life. - Clara Hughes
The biggest thing is just routine. I think that's the biggest correlation between golfers and basketball players. - Stephen Curry
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. - P G Wodehouse
There is no such thing as a perfect basketball player, and I don't believe there is only one greatest player either. - Michael Jordan
One of the greatest things about the sport of surfing is that you need only three things: your body, a surfboard, and a wave. - Naima Green
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods
Basketball, a game which won’t be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus high and return the giraffes to the zoo. - Ogden Nash
Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player. - Bill Gates
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. - John Leonard
In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning; at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. - Haile Gebrelassie
The starting line of the New York Marathon is like a giant time bomb behind you about to go off. It is the most spectacular start in sport. - Bill Rodgers