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Famous Quotes

"Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times."
Lucy Powell on Sports

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 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 on Sports
"It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."
Mark Twain on Sports
"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
Mark Twain on Sports
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson on Sports
"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
Henry David Thoreau on Sports

"Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties."
"The Tories and the Lib Dems talk about social mobility, but, short of winning the lottery, the only way to guarantee young people from all backgrounds the opportunity to do better and to raise aspirations is through education."
"These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better."
"There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth."
"Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties."