Famous Quotes About - sports

  • A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. ... Wayne Gretzky {view}
  • A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. ... Jesse Owens {view}
  • Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. ... Ambrose Bierce {view}
  • Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. ... William Arthur Ward {view}
  • All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. ... Gordie Howe {view}
  • All sports for all people. ... Pierre de Coubertin {view}
  • Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. ... Doug Collins {view}
  • Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. ... Phil Jackson {view}
  • As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. ... Michael Jordan {view}
  • Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ... John Leonard {view}
  • Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball. ... James Patrick Murray {view}
  • Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. ... Peter Ueberroth {view}
  • Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. ... Bill Veeck {view}
  • Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. ... Joe Garagiola {view}
  • Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. ... Ted Williams {view}
  • Baseball life is a tough life on the family. ... Nolan Ryan {view}
  • Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? ... Jim Bouton {view}
  • Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. ... Red Auerbach {view}
  • Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. ... Dan Quayle {view}
  • Boxing has become America's tragic theater. ... Joyce Carol Oates {view}
  • Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. ... Norman Ralph Augustine {view}
  • Champions keep playing until they get it right. ... Billie Jean King {view}
  • Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. ... Mike Singletary {view}
  • Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. ... Satchel Paige {view}
  • Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. ... Harry Vardon {view}
  • Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. ... Grantland Rice {view}
  • Fans don't boo nobodies. ... Reggie Jackson {view}
  • Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. ... Herbert Hoover {view}
  • Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. ... Tom Landry {view}
  • Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. ... Jack Benny {view}
  • Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ... Dan Gable {view}
  • Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five. ... John Updike {view}
  • Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. ... William Wordsworth {view}
  • Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. ... Woodrow Wilson {view}
  • Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five. ... Paul Harvey {view}
  • Golf is a good walk spoiled. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. ... Jim Bishop {view}
  • Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. ... Tim Duncan {view}
  • Gray skies are just clouds passing over. ... Frank Gifford {view}
  • Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. ... Yogi Berra {view}
  • Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? ... Al Boliska {view}
  • He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen. ... Jack Nicklaus {view}
  • He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity. ... Nick Faldo {view}
  • He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win. ... Gary McCord {view}
  • He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can. ... Jack Nicklaus {view}
  • He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play. ... Gary McCord {view}
  • He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is. ... Nick Price {view}
  • Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. ... Warren Spahn {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. ... Earl Warren {view}
  • I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. ... Mia Hamm {view}
  • I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes. ... Al McGuire {view}
  • I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ... Rogers Hornsby {view}
  • I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. ... Will Rogers {view}
  • I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today. ... Gerald R. Ford {view}
  • I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. ... Gerald R. Ford {view}
  • I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. ... Joe E. Lewis {view}
  • I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. ... Gilbert K. Chesterton {view}
  • I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. ... Walt Whitman {view}
  • I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. ... Kurt Russell {view}
  • I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. ... Mike Tyson {view}
  • I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. ... Roger Kahn {view}
  • I went through baseball as "a player to be named later." ... Joe Garagiola {view}
  • I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. ... Rodney Dangerfield {view}
  • I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. ... Michael Phelps {view}
  • I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • I'll let the racket do the talking. ... John McEnroe {view}
  • I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things. ... Sasha Cohen {view}
  • I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog. ... Whitey Herzog {view}
  • I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. ... Shaquille O'Neal {view}
  • 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 {view}
  • If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. ... Sam Snead {view}
  • If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. ... Erma Bombeck {view}
  • If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. ... George Brett {view}
  • If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. ... Charles Barkley {view}
  • If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? ... Vince Lombardi {view}
  • If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up. ... Tommy Bolt {view}
  • If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. ... Dean Martin {view}
  • If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. ... Shaquille O'Neal {view}
  • If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. ... Phil Jackson {view}
  • If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. ... Jack Lemmon {view}
  • If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. ... Bob Hope {view}
  • It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. ... Robert Wilson Lynd {view}
  • It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. ... Pete Rose {view}
  • It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. ... Mark Twain {view}
  • It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. ... Muhammad Ali {view}
  • Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ... Michael Jordan {view}
  • Life is about timing. ... Carl Lewis {view}
  • Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. ... Christy Mathewson {view}
  • Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
  • Most ball games are lost, not won. ... Casey Stengel {view}
  • Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. ... William James {view}
  • My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. ... Bill Toomey {view}
  • My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging. ... Hank Aaron {view}
  • New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. ... Jimmy Connors {view}
  • Nobody roots for Goliath. ... Wilt Chamberlain {view}
  • Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. ... Paul Coffey {view}
  • Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. ... Juan Antonio Samaranch {view}
  • One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. ... Knute Rockne {view}
  • One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. ... Joe Garagiola {view}
  • Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. ... Peter Ueberroth {view}
  • Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence. ... Nick Price {view}
  • People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. ... Rogers Hornsby {view}
  • Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time. ... Greg LeMond {view}
  • Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. ... Joseph Chilton Pearce {view}
  • Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. ... Frank Gifford {view}
  • Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you? ... Ben Hogan {view}
  • Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing. ... Ben Hogan {view}
  • Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. ... George Orwell {view}
  • Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. ... Vince Lombardi {view}
  • Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. ... Dave Barry {view}
  • Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. ... Barry Switzer {view}
  • Sometimes in football you have to score goals. ... Thierry Henry {view}
  • Sports are a microcosm of society. ... Billie Jean King {view}
  • Sports do not build character. They reveal it. ... Heywood Broun {view}
  • Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. ... Bobby Unser {view}
  • Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. ... Roger Kahn {view}
  • Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. ... Billie Jean King {view}
  • Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. ... Erma Bombeck {view}
  • The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register. ... Bob Verdi {view}
  • The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. ... Steve Garvey {view}
  • The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. ... George Deukmejian {view}
  • The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. ... John Madden {view}
  • The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. ... Ernest Hemingway {view}
  • The integrity of the game is everything. ... Peter Ueberroth {view}
  • The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. ... Ben Hogan {view}
  • The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. ... Billy Graham {view}
  • The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. ... Ernie Banks {view}
  • The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. ... Hank Aaron {view}
  • The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. ... Martin Mull {view}
  • The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen. ... Bob Lemon {view}
  • There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. ... Charley Lau {view}
  • There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid. ... Jack Nicklaus {view}
  • There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. ... Charles Spalding {view}
  • These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it. ... Charles Barkley {view}
  • Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ... Blaise Pascal {view}
  • Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ... Joe Adcock {view}