Sports Quotes And Sayings From Sportsmen, Coaches, And Others

by allinspiration.com

“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

“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”
– H. L. Mencken

“Love is a violent recreational sport. Proceed at your own risk. Helmets, armor, and steel-toe boots are required by law.”
– H.C. Paye

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”
– Hank Aaron

“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

“I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we’ll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can’t do it—you can’t bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.”
– Harry Crews

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

“I later discovered that in order to be a good athlete one must care intensely what is happening with a ball, even if one doesn’t have possession of it. This was ultimately my failure: my inability to work up a passion for the location of balls.”
– Haven Kimmel

“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

“If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.”
– Ilie Nastase

“I love the smell of the ice… And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it’s sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal… as long as it’s our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when I’m playing. I can do things on this ice that I can’t do anywhere else.”
– J. Sterling, In Dreams

“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.”
– Jack Benny

“The American people are sheep. They’re comfortable, rich, working. It’s like the Romans, they’re happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right.”
– Jack Kevorkian

“If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.”
– Jack Lemmon

“Ever bike? Now that’s something that makes life worth living!…Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you’re going to smash up. Well, now, that’s something! And then go home again after three hours of it…and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!”
– Jack London

“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

“Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man’s sins.”
– James Barrett Reston, Uncle Anthony’s Unabridged Analogies: Quotes and Proverbs for Lawyers and Lecturers

“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

“Stay true to yourself and listen to your inner voice. It will lead you to your dream.”
– James Ross

“A tie is like an arrow pointing to my crotch. A tie is also like an even score.”
– Jarod Kintz

“In a depression, attendance to sporting events goes down, while the percentage of people fornicating goes up, because sex is free. I know, some of you are probably thinking, Free! Where do I find those hookers?!”
– Jarod Kintz

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