Famous Sports Quotes And Sayings

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“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
– 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

“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”
– Frank Gifford

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

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

“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.”
– George Deukmejian

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

“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

“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.”
– Grantland Rice

“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

“What’s a good tournament for him? Winning it. He’s good enough.”
– Greg Norman

“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

“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

“You know they’re not going to lose 162 consecutive games.”
– Harry Caray

“Don’t play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty.”
– Harry Vardon

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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