Quotes on sports
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Banks, Ernie
I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
Ventre, Michael
There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.
Reston, James
There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
Foreman, George
To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Handey, Jack
October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
Love, Jason
All that proves is that most of the world is too poor to build bowling alleys, golf courses, tennis courts and baseball fields. There's hundreds of millions of poor people out there who still ain't got indoor plumbing, but that don't mean there's something great about an outhouse. Soccer is boring. I've never seen a more boring sport.
Royko, Mike
Cricket is baseball on valium.
Williams, Robin
Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.
Fischer, Martin H.
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
Stallone, Sylvester
Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.
Angell, Roger
The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
Morley, Robert
Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.
Bolton, Ron
When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
Lebowitz, Fran
The more I practice, the luckier I get.
Barber, Jerry
I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
Gray, Simon
It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
Lyle, Sandy
A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated.
Luxemburgo, Wanderley
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Mencken, H.L.
The key is not the "will to win" - everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Knight, Bobby
All sports are games of inches.
Ritger, Dick
You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
Brett, George
Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience.
Neely, Luke
Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
Mancroft, Lord
Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
Unknown, Author
A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.
Posa, Nik
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
Anderson, Sparky
I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees.
Davies, Jonathan
If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
Donne, John
The finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end.
Malone, Laurence
I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
Wright, Steven