Dive - Sports

Sports

  • Dive (American football), a type of play in American football
  • Diving, the sport of jumping into deep water, typically acrobatically and with a graceful entry
  • Dolphin dive, a form of rapid water entry used by lifeguards
  • Match fixing, or "taking a dive", intentionally throwing a fight in boxing
  • Mollie Dive (1913-1997), Australian cricketer
  • "Diving", in sports, faking or exaggerating body contact by an opposing player to gain an advantage from a referee, usually by falling down and sometimes by feigning injury
    • Diving (football), in soccer
    • Diving (ice hockey)
    • Flopping (basketball)

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Famous quotes containing the word sports:

    “In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
    —Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)

    “It was so hard to pry this door open, and if I mess up I know the people behind me are going to have it that much harder. Because then there’s living proof. They can sit around and say, “See? It doesn’t work.” I don’t want to be their living proof.”
    —Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)

    “There be some sports are painful, and their labor
    Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
    Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
    Point to rich ends.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)