Sports Quotes

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and...

One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and p...

A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.

Gimme: An agreement between two losers who can't putt.

The reporter asked, "why did you play so hard.""Because there might have been somebody in the stands...

Your brain commands your body to "Run forward! Bend! Scoop up the ball! Peg it to the infield!" Then...

I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said."California sucks this year."Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Ba...

player: Can I reach it with a five iron? caddie: Eventually.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched t...

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no rea...

You tell me it's the institution.Well, you know, you'd better free you mind instead.But if you go ca...

I think that in any group activity - whether it be business, sports, or family - there has to be lea...

Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

I see great things in baseball.

Many of the people I write about were deliberately left out of the history books that we were forced...

I had my boy in Boston on Easter Sunday. That kills me, from a sports perspective. He's a Boston bab...

You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.

The score never interested me, only the game.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

It's considered good sportsmanship not to pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe ...

I realize im black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybodys wish.

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of d...

I have failed many times, and that's why I am a success.

I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, bu...

Baseball is a soap opera that lends itself to probabilistic thinking. [Dick Cramer]

It’s the Olympics. If you can’t get up to swim early in the morning, don’t go.

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all...

Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, ...

I've fallen in love with baseball.

I sometimes turn on the radio and I find very often that what I'm listening to is a discussion of sp...

When I was in high school I asked myself at one point: "Why do I care if my high school's team wins ...

I have never heard anyone profess indifference to a boat race. Why should you row a boat race? Why e...

For several years Quinn had been having the same conversations with this man, whose name he did not ...

Even in the most peaceful communities, an appetite for violence shows up in dreams, fantasies, sport...

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

All sports for all people.

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a person courageous, a generous loser, and a gra...

Enduring means accepting. Accepting things as they are and not as you would wish them to be, and the...

I have no sense of humor about losing

The problem nowadays is that children have become too much the center of attention. Their parents, t...

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while fo...

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while fo...

Like many men addicted to sports, Clive Sr. was also a religious man.

My father watched football with the sound off because he lived in fear of hearing the voice of Howar...

Men are very confident people. Even a sixty-year-old man with no arms thinks he could play in the Su...

Go jogging? And get hit by a meteor?

Cricket is baseball on Valium.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed wi...

What mattered to me most when I was batting was feeling comfortable. As long as I felt comfortable, ...

We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal li...

Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of ridin...

I'd only seen Julius play a few times, but he had that gift, that grace, those fingers like a goddam...

Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state...

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking i...

Run and become.Become and run.Run to succeed in the outer world.Become to proceed in the inner world...

In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if th...

Rhythm is everything in boxing. Every move you make starts with your heart, and that’s in rhythm or ...

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be conside...

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about footbal...

if you gone come in second, you're just the first loser!

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men ...

Ice hockey is the closest thing to religion permitted by the Soviet Union.

Thankfully, Coach had taught me a way of embracing the pain. He called that overwhelming rust of hur...

We didn't lose the game we just ran out of time.

Stated to a running back after an overly exuberant display of celebration: Next time you make a touc...

It’s amazing how two thin pieces of clothing can hold such deep memories. Laughter, pain, victory, d...

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up th...

What is fascinating is that it is physical. You know, that's one thing about intellectuals, they've ...

You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half...

It ain't over 'til it's over.

I can't believe it. I can't believe it. Football. Bloody hell.

Every sport pretends to be literature. . .

It is not over. Champions extend their limits and make things happen.

Everyone has the fire, but the champions know when to ignite the spark.

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

Champions never sleep, the eternal spirit keep them alert and awake.

You are not alone in the struggles of life. Entire cosmos is with you. It evolves through the way yo...

You either commit yourself as a professional racing driver that's designed to win races or you come ...

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to pe...

New Rule: Americans must realize what makes NFL football so great: socialism. That's right, the NFL ...

New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newb...

There must be a bad chromosome somewhere in man that urges him to wound that which he can't conquer,...

If you can't support us when we lose or draw, don't support us when we win

a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that ...

If you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.

Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-conciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he ...

I want you all to line up in alphabetical order according to your size.