A Compilation Of Sports Quotes – Some Inspiring, Some Funny

by allinspiration.com

“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

“Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five.”
– Paul Harvey

“It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.”
– Pete Rose

“One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot, the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.”
– Peter Marshall

“All sports for all people.”
– Pierre de Coubertin

“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
– Pierre de Coubertin

“Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.”
– Pierre de Coubertin

“Sport is part of every man and woman’s heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.”
– Pierre de Coubertin

“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

“Fans don’t boo nobodies.”
– Reggie Jackson

“I’m human and I’ve played my butt off for ten years. I’m not a loafer, I’m not a jerk, I’m a baseball player.”
– Reggie Jackson

“I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.”
– Richard M. Nixon

“I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.”
– Robert Frost

“Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen”
– Robert Mugabe

“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“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

“I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”
– Rogers Hornsby

“Thinking instead of acting is the number-one golf disease.”
– Sam Snead

“Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.”
– Satchel Paige

“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

“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

“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

“Sports is like a war without the killing.”
– Ted Turner

“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

“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can’t make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.”
– Ted Williams

“Sometimes in football you have to score goals.”
– Thierry Henry

“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

“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best.”
– Tim Duncan

“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.”
– Tom Landry

“No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer’s mind.”
– Tom Watson

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