A Compilation Of Sports Quotes – Some Inspiring, Some Funny

by allinspiration.com

“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

“You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.”
– Charles Barkley

“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

“If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life.”
– Chris Evert

“What you have to remember is that baseball isn’t a week or a month but a season – and a season is a long time.”
– Chuck Tanner

“Any minute, any day, some players may break a long standing record. That’s one of the fascinations about the game, the unexpected surprises.”
– Connie Mack

“I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.”
– Connie Mack

“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
– Dale Earnhardt

“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
– Dan Gable

“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

“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
– Dave Barry

“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.”
– Dave Barry

“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry

“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.”
– Dave Barry

“If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
– Dean Martin

“I don’t know any other way to lead but by example.”
– Don Shula

“How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.”
– Dwight David Eisenhower

“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.”
– Earl Warren

“The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.”
– Earl Weaver

“In baseball, you can’t kill the clock. You’ve got to give the other man his chance. That’s why this is the greatest game.”
– Earl Weaver

“I don’t like losing a ballgame any more than a salesman likes losing a sale.”
– Early Wynn

“God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.”
– Eric Liddell

“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

“Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports … all others are games.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”
– Ernie Banks

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
– Frank Gifford

“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“When a man wants to murder a tiger, it’s called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it’s called ferocity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”
– George Brett

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