Sports Quotes

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.

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.