Sports Quotes

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.

The only difference between a good shot and a bad shot is if it goes in or not

Loyalty and communication are always rewarded in sports.

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the...

...I've spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that...

I'd never been much of an athlete, due to a physical condition I'd had since birth (unathleticism). ...

He had been haunted his whole life by a mildcase of claustrophobia—the vestige of a childhood incide...

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In o...

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling y...

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybo...

The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in win...

I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regard...

Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship...

The real, many-veiled answer to the question of just what goes through a great player's mind as he s...

What if, when Tracy Austin writes that after her 1989 car crash, 'I quickly accepted that there was ...

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expres...

Politicians and sports coaches both need to be smart enough to master the game, but dumb enough to t...

That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal ...

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care w...

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan

When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea....

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely...

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad som...

Sports fans eat shit.

Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. ...

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, ...

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher d...

Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all ...

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's almost a law.

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf...

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on...

As I run I tell myself to think of a river. And clouds. But essentially I'm not thinking of a thing....

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity o...

I have long understood that losing always comes with the territory when you wander into the gambling...

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way....

The two keys to success as a sportswriter are: 1) A blind willingness to believe anything you're tol...

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, ...