Vince Lombardi
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
Muhammad Ali
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O'Neal
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Vince Lombardi
Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.
Tim Duncan
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
William Arthur Ward
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
Satchel Paige
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Mark Twain
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.
George Orwell
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.
Yogi Berra
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.
Nick Faldo
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.
Roger Kahn
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Roger Kahn
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.
Gary McCord
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.
Gary McCord
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins
He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time. He's an outstanding talent. I didn't realize how tall he is.
Nick Price
Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.
Nick Price
The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.
Bob Verdi
What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty.
Bob Verdi
There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Charles Spalding
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
Charley Lau
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
George Deukmejian
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.
Greg LeMond
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
Greg LeMond
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer
Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.
Harry Vardon
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Ben Hogan
Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Ben Hogan
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon
I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
Sasha Cohen
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden
I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later."
Joe Garagiola
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.
Joe Garagiola
Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth
Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.
Peter Ueberroth
Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Christy Mathewson
The integrity of the game is everything.
Peter Ueberroth
I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.
Kurt Russell
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey
If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.
Greg Norman
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.
Hugo Black
I'll let the racket do the talking.
John McEnroe
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock
You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
Joe DiMaggio
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire
Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Wilson Lynd
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy Connors
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
Norman Ralph Augustine
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.
Lee Trevino
Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Frank Gifford
Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Bill Toomey
Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks
Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Jack Nicklaus
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Thierry Henry
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola
Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis
Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
Jesse Ventura
It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.
Pete Rose
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Bob Hope
Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike
All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.
Knute Rockne
Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates
You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts.
Phil Jackson
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
Jesse Owens
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Tom Landry
Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach
If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry
I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren
Fans don't boo nobodies.
Reggie Jackson
God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
Herbert Hoover
I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
Michael Phelps
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Mike Singletary
You can't win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
Michael Jordan
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable
I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman
Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Charles Barkley
I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.
Jack Lemmon
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