A Compilation Of Sports Quotes – Some Inspiring, Some Funny

by allinspiration.com

“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

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
– Gerald R. Ford

“What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse”
– German Proverb

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
– Gordie Howe

“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

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
– Hank Aaron

“Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.”
– Henry David Thoreau

“Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.”
– Herbert Hoover

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
– Heywood Broun

“In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw ‘em.”
– Honus Wagner

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”
– Howard Cosell

“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
– Hunter S. Thompson

“As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.”
– Irvin S. Cobb

“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”
– Jack Benny

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”
– Jack Lemmon

“He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I’ve ever seen.”
– Jack Nicklaus

“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’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

“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

“The best and fastest way to learn a sport is to watch and imitate a champion.”
– Jean Claude Killy

“A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.”
– Jesse Owens

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
– Jesse Ventura

“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

“Sport is a very important subject at school, that’s why I gave Quidditch such an important place at Hogwarts. I was very bad in sports, so I gave Harry a talent I would really loved to have. Who wouldn’t want to fly?”
– Joanne Kathleen Rowling

“Football Is an honest game. It’s true to life . It’s a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.”
– Joe Namath

“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.”
– John Leonard

“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

“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.”
– John Wooden

“Boxing has become America’s tragic theater.”
– Joyce Carol Oates

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