Sports Quotes And Sayings From Sportsmen, Coaches, And Others

by allinspiration.com

“Most ball games are lost, not won.”
– Casey Stengel

“He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.”
– Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding

“If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.”
– Charles Barkley

“These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.”
– Charles Barkley

“You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.”
– Charles Barkley

“Athletes are born winners, they are not born losers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become successful in life.”
– Charles R. Sledge Jr.

“There was endless action – not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk – the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.”
– Charles Spalding

“There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.”
– Charley Lau

“Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.”
– Christy Mathewson

“I’ve spent the last fifteen years of my life railing against the game of soccer, an exercise that has been lauded as “the sport of the future” since 1977. Thankfully, that future dystopia has never come.”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto

“Players like rules. If they didn’t have any rules, they wouldn’t have anything to break.”
– Coach Lee Walls

“You get hit the hardest when trying to run or hide from a problem. Like the defense on a football field, putting all focus on evading only one defender is asking to be blindsided.”
– Criss Jami

“You win some, lose some, and wreck some.”
– Dale Earnhardt

“Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.”
– Dan Gable

“Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.”
– Dan Quayle

“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.”
– Dave Barry

“Have you noticed that whatever sport you’re trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?”
– Dave Barry

“I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and–regardless of their political or cultural differences–accuse each other of cheating.”
– Dave Barry

“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
– Dave Barry

“The problem with winter sports is that – follow me closely here – they generally take place in winter.”
– Dave Barry

“Guys care about sports teams. I’m not talking about simply rooting; I’m talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.”
– Dave Barry, Dave Barry’s Complete Guide to Guys

“The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitute for anything resembling an urban policy.”
– Dave Zirin, A People’s History of Sports in the United States: 250 Years of Politics, Protest, People, and Play

“Some seek the comfort of their therapist’s office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.”
– Dean Karnazes

“If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt.”
– Dean Martin

“I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.”
– Demetri Martin

“Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.”
– Doug Collins

“An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins.”
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

“I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.”
– Earl Warren

“My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.”
– Eric Cantona

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