Sports Quotations

Al Boliska

Have you ever noticed what golf spells...

Ambrose Bierce

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy...

Anna Kournikova

I have lost this battle but I will win...

Arnold Palmer

What other people may find in poetry or art...

A. Bartlett Giamatti

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break...

Barry Switzer

Some people are born on third base and go...

Ben Hogan

As you walk down the fairway of life you...

Ben Hogan

Golf is not a game of good shots. It's...

Ben Hogan

I couldn't wait for the sun to come up...

Ben Hogan

I play golf with friends sometimes, but there are...

Ben Hogan

I'm glad I brought this course, this monster, to...

Ben Hogan

If we could have just screwed another head on...

Ben Hogan

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You...

Ben Hogan

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of...

Ben Hogan

The only thing a golfer needs is more...

Ben Hogan

Why that would be like challenging Bing Crosby to...

Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing until they get it...

Billie Jean King

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking...

Billy Graham

The only time my prayers are never answered is...

Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a...

Blaise Pascal

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary...

Bobby Knight

You don't play against opponents, you play against the...

Bobby Unser

Success is where preparation and opportunity...

Bob Hope

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you...

Bob Verdi

The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs...

Bob Verdi

What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million...

Casey Stengel

Most ball games are lost, not...

Charles Barkley

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to...

Charles Barkley

My family got all over me because they said...

Charles Barkley

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They...

Charlie Lau

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately,...

Chris Evert Lloyd

If you can react the same way to winning...

Dale Earnhardt

You win some, lose some, and wreck...

Dan Quayle

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that...

Dave Barry

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with...

Dean Martin

If you drink don't drive. Don't even...

Doug Collins

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and...

Earl Warren

I always turn to the sports pages first, which...

Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are...

The game of golf would lose a great deal...

The only way to prove that you're a good...

Frank Gifford

Gray skies are just clouds passing...

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no...

Gary McCord

He hits the ball a long way and he...

Gary McCord

He's got an overall flair for the game. It...

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

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing...

George Deukmejian

The difference in golf and government is that in...

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play....

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and...

I know I am getting better at golf because...

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing...

Gordie Howe

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and...

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more...

Greg LeMond

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the...

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks...

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's...

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I...

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball....

Harry Vardon

Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day...

Many men go fishing all of their lives without...

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the...

Sports do not build character. They reveal...

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that...

When the going gets weird, the weird turn...

Jack Benny

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful...

If you think it's hard to meet new people,...

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've...

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his...

Jamal Lewis

As far as a guy like Ray Lewis is...

James Patrick Murray

Baseball is a game where a curve is an...

Jesse Owens

A lifetime of training for just ten...

Wrestling is ballet with...

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts...

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men...

Jim Bouton

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often...

You spend a good piece of your life gripping...

Joe Adcock

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is...

I play in the low 80s. If it's any...

Joe Garagiola

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an...

Joe Garagiola

I went through baseball as "a player to be...

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he...

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when...

John Leonard

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension...

John Madden

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules...

John McEnroe

I'll let the racket do the...

John Sayles

Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot...

John Updike

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the...

Joseph Chilton Pearce

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of...

Joyce Carol Oates

Boxing has become America's tragic...

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Olympism is the marriage of sport and...

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You can't win unless you learn how to...

Leo Durocher

Show me a good loser and I'll show you...

Mark Twain

Golf is a good walk...

Mark Twain

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf...

Martin Mull

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls...

Martin Yan

Well, you know, if you get into the profession...

Michael Jordan

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's...

Michael Jordan

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not...

Michael Jordan

I never looked at the consequences of missing a...

Michael Jordan

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career....

Michael Jordan

If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks....

Michael Jordan

Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the...

Mike Epps

I don't know why people think I'm this ad-lib...

Mike Singletary

Do you know what my favorite part of the...

Mike Tyson

When I fight someone, I want to break his...

Muhammad Ali

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like...

Muhammad Ali

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves...

Natan Sharansky

The two most important things that can be done...

Nick Faldo

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick...

Nick Price

He's got everything. He' not a great player yet...

Nick Price

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's...

Norman Ralph Augustine

Bulls do not win bull fights. People...

Paul Coffey

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good...

Paul Harvey

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore,"...

Peter Ueberroth

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners...

Peter Ueberroth

Other sports play once a week but this sport...

Peter Ueberroth

The integrity of the game is...

Pete Rose

It's a round ball and a round bat, and...

Phil Jackson

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate...

Phil Jackson

Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll...

Phil Jackson

I gave it my body and mind, but I...

Phil Jackson

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed...

Phil Jackson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for...

Red Auerbach

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are...

Reggie Jackson

The will to win is worthless if you don't...

Robert Frost

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net...

Robert Graves

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified...

Robert Lynd

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a...

Rodney Dangerfield

I went to a fight the other night, and...

Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when...

Roger Kahn

A major league baseball team is a collection of...

Roger Kahn

Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon...

Roger Kahn

Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they...

Roger Kahn

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and...

Roger Kahn

Horse racing is animated...

Roger Kahn

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional...

Roger Kahn

Tennis and golf are best played, not...

Ronnie Montrose

Attempting to write vocal oriented songs to me felt...

Sam Snead

If a lot of people gripped a knife and...

Satchel Paige

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on...

Sean Astin

I don't want to play the fat guy or...

Shannon Miller

At an Olympics Game, you want to enjoy it,...

Shaquille O'Neal

I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money,...

Shaquille O'Neal

If you got the game, you got the game....

Steve Garvey

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new...

Ted Williams

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a...

Tom Landry

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible,...

Vince Lombardi

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep...

Vince Lombardi

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

Vince Lombardi

Winners never quit and quitters never...

Vince Lombardi

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is...

Vince Lombardi

Winning is not everything, but wanting to win...

Vince Lombardi

Winning isn't everything, it's the only...

Walt Whitman

I see great things in baseball. It's our game...

Warren Spahn

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting...

Wayne Gretzky

A good hockey player plays where the puck is....

Wayne Gretzky

You miss 100% of the shots you never...

William A. Ward

Adversity causes some men to break; others to break...

William James

Most people never run far enough on their first...

Will Rogers

I guess there is nothing that will get your...

Yogi Berra

Half the lies they tell about me aren't...

Yogi Berra

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten...