Sports Quotes

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

That's the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some other sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on.

Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

Swimming is a confusing sport, because sometimes you do it for fun, and other times you do it to not die. And when I'm swimming, sometimes I'm not sure which one it is.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn't make your house look any better.

In what other sport do you get a 15-second break every hour?

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

I played all kinds of sports when I was young: tennis, handball, basketball, some soccer. I focused on basketball when I was 16 or 17 and then came to the U.S. when I was 20.

A vote for Japan is a vote for the future of rugby. We will do our best to make rugby a global sport.

When I play with my cat, who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics.

As football players you have all the experience on the field. You don't have the experience off the field.

You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way.

Without spontaneity in any sport, you cannot succeed.

I instantly connected with the sport and I have fond memories of growing up on my skating rink that my dad made for us in our backyard.

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.

What is love? Love is playing every game as if it's your last!

Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn't work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.

I've heard the joke a million times that "Jews in Sports" must be the thinnest book in the world. Actually, I've seen a lot of great players working at the Maccabi Games.

People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.

Lots of guys don't like Jacques Plante, but he has been good to me. He's always by himself, you know, and how can you hate a guy when you never see him?

Life is a sport...drink it up.

If you're thinking something good about your players, say it; don't save it for later.

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

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

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.

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

Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.

Baseball has so much history and tradition. You can respect it, or you can exploit it for profit, but it's still being made all over the place, all the time.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

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 the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

I've fallen in love with baseball.

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

Two out of every three goals you score come from checking. One out of every three comes from sheer finesse.

Do not speak defeat, speak victory.

Baseball was my first sport. I wish I would have stayed with it.

I didn't only have a perceptual problem, I was also so nervous and so upset. The process just didn't work. I lost enthusiasm for school and I flunked second grade. The teachers said I was lazy.

The sentimentality of baseball is very deeply rooted in the American baseball fan. It is the one sport that is transmitted from fathers to sons.

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

The English gentleman is a combination of silence, courtesy, dignity, sport, newspapers and honesty.

Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb.