Famous Sports Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“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

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

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
– Jesse Ventura

“Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.”
– Jim Bishop

“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

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.”
– Jim Bouton

“New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.”
– Jimmy Connors

“Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.”
– Joe Adcock

“You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.”
– Joe Dimaggio

“I play in the low 80s. If it’s any hotter than that, I won’t play.”
– Joe E. Lewis

“Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.”
– Joe Garagiola

“I went through baseball as ‘a player to be named later’.”
– Joe Garagiola

“One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.”
– Joe Garagiola

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

“The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.”
– John Madden

“I’ll let the racket do the talking.”
– John Mcenroe

“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

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce

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

“Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.”
– Juan Antonio Samaranch

“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.”
– Knute Rockne

“I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.”
– Kurt Russell

“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
– Lee Trevino

“It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
– Mark Twain

“Golf is a good walk spoiled.”
– Mark Twain

“The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.”
– Martin Mull

“I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.”
– Mia Hamm

“As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day.”
– Michael Jordan

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
– Michael Jordan

Pages: 1 2 3 4 5

Follow this site