Sports Quotes

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I've never seen anyone go on the DL with pulled fat.

The pitcher has got only a ball. I've got a bat. So the percentage in weapons is in my favor and I let the fellow with the ball do the fretting.

America has been erased like a blackboard, only to be rebuilt and then erased again. But baseball has marked time while America has rolled by like a procession of steamrollers.

A huge part of my passion for the sport comes from being Canadian and growing up watching Hockey Night in Canada on CBC with my parents and siblings.

I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.

I'm not looking for starters, I'm looking for finishers.

You visualize [pitches]. You see it in your head; you think it...I used to play every pitcher in my mind before I went to the ballpark. I started getting ready for ever game the moment I woke up.

He who gets the best players usually wins.

I admired those girls who did Playboy, Sports Illustrated, and Victoria's Secret. I love looking at them too, but I never went in that direction. I just stayed in fashion.

Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn't matter.

Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.

Sports section and a sticky bun. Know what that means.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I've actually tried to roast somebody that I don't like, and it doesn't go well. Either they're a bad sport or I'm not as funny as I could be.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Well, you can't trust most people in this game, period; it can be a very shady business.

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.

A great catch is like watching girls go by. The last one you see is always the prettiest.

If I pass away one day, I am happy because I tried to do my best. My sport allowed me to do so much because it's the biggest sport in the world.

Either black people end up being the best in sports, or else it's show business. You know, we all got rhythm.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

We take life too lightly and sport too seriously.

I'm a Hollywood writer, so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

There's no use fussing on a boy who doesn't have any ability.

As an Olympic champion gymnast, I have always stayed involved in my sport.

Because the sport has changed, competition is not only stronger but it's deeper throughout the field than it's ever been. It's harder to win.

The day when I am satisfied with what I have, will be the day I retire from the sport.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

I had to put it on the line, but it was my Tour to win and mine to lose.

I challenge you to show me where the saloon has ever helped business, education, church, morals or anything we hold dear.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

Wrestling is a team sport, and an individual sport all rolled into one.

Longevity is having a chronic disease - and taking care of it.

I pray not for victory, but to do my best.

There are so many wizards of the computer, stock market, test tube, and spectator sport, but so few of the art of life.

After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.

Gymnastics has become degraded as the participants have become younger. Once it was a sport of grace for women, never for little girls.

I have my flaws too, but I am a professional who doesn't like to miss or lose.

Generally, the more weight you put on, the less effective you are.

I tell you that the curse of God Almighty is on the saloon.

I run to see who has the most guts.