Sports Quotes And Sayings From Sportsmen, Coaches, And Others

by allinspiration.com

“My baseball team is called the I Ams. Just me and my clones on the roster. We’re devastating. Well, at least I am.”
– Jarod Kintz

“I can throw an orange like a baseball, but I can’t eat a baseball like an orange. Let that be a life lesson for you.”
– Jarod Kintz, A Zebra is the Piano of the Animal Kingdom

“I don’t understand the game of Cricket. But I do get the game of Noisy Night Insect.”
– Jarod Kintz, This is the best book I’ve ever written, and it still sucks

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

“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
– Jesse Ventura

“Why is luge a sport? You dress up like a giant sperm and go sledding really fast. That’s hardly athletic. Phallic and sexy, yes. But hardly athletic.”
– Jessica Park, Flat-Out Love

“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

“I like sports, and I enjoy playing basketball and lifting weights.”
– Joel Osteen

“The miracle isn’t that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”
– John Bingham

“If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the “coach” or “yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.”
– John Hodgman, That is All

“Cassidy’s heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene, just as always, and it seemed to last a tiny forever, just like that, a snapshot of them all on the curved parabola of a starting line, eight giant hearts attached to eight pairs of bellows-like lungs mounted on eight pairs of supercharged stilts. They were poised on the edge of some howling vortex they had run 10,000 miles to get to. Now they had to run one more.”
– John L. Parker Jr., Once a Runner

“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

“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”
– Jonathan Haidt

“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

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

“No matter the disappointment, you simply cannot divorce your favorite team.”
– Kevin Walker, These Moments Pass: Poems

“Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.”
– Knute Rockne

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