A Compilation Of Sports Quotes – Some Inspiring, Some Funny

by allinspiration.com

“Baseball is like driving, it’s the one who gets home safely that counts.”
– Tommy Lasorda

“Practice as if you are the worst, perform as if you are the best.”
– Unknown

“My drinking team has a soccer problem”
– Unknown

“The trees taunt you; the sand mocks you; the water calls your name and they say golf is a quiet game”
– Unknown

“One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ball.”
– Unknown

“An amateur golfer is one who addresses the ball twice: once before swinging, and once again after swinging”
– Unknown

“If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?”
– Vince Lombardi

“Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.”
– Vince Lombardi

“Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”
– Vince Lombardi

“People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defences, or the problems of modern society.”
– Vince Lombardi

“The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.”
– Vince Lombardi

“I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.”
– Walt Whitman

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
– Wayne Gretzky

“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

“When should a college athlete turn pro? Not until he has earned all he can in college as an amateur.”
– Will Rogers

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
– William Arthur Ward

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.”
– William James

“It’s too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That’s the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.”
– William Sloan Coffin

“Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.”
– William Wordsworth

“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what it most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”
– Willie Mays

“The triumph cannot be had without the struggle. And I know what struggle is. I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.”
– Wilma Rudolph

“In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won’t be able to do this.”
– Wilson Mizner

“Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.”
– Winston Churchill

“Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.”
– Woodrow Wilson

“Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.”
– Yogi Berra

“You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.”
– Yogi Berra

“In baseball, you don’t know nothing.”
– Yogi Berra

“If the fans don’t come out to the ball park, you can’t stop them.”
– Yogi Berra

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