Quotes About Sports
1. 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
2. It’s good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. – Mark Twain
3. Golf is a good walk spoiled. – Mark Twain
4. When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. – Hunter S. Thompson
5. Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. – Henry David Thoreau
6. It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. – Muhammad Ali
7. Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. – Michael Jordan
8. Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you. – Satchel Paige
9. 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
10. If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? – Vince Lombardi
11. Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. – Dan Gable
12. People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring. – Rogers Hornsby
13. Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true. – Yogi Berra
14. I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children. – Mike Tyson
15. You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. – Michael Phelps
16. Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser. – Vince Lombardi
17. A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. – Wayne Gretzky
18. Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting. – George Orwell
19. I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down. – Robert Frost
20. Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. – George Bernard Shaw
21. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. – Vince Lombardi
22. Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. – Tiger Woods
23. I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. – Rodney Dangerfield
24. Adversity causes some men to break others to break records. – William Arthur Ward
25. Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. – William James
26. I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies. – Will Rogers
27. I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. – Mia Hamm
28. If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. – Erma Bombeck
29. You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you. – Yogi Berra
30. 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
31. The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. – Ernest Hemingway
32. Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. – Blaise Pascal
33. I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. – Shaquille O’Neal
34. I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game. – Walt Whitman
35. The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. – Billy Graham
36. Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. – Ted Williams
37. Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. – Ambrose Bierce
38. 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
39. I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. – Gilbert K. Chesterton
40. All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. – Gordie Howe
41. Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable. – Tom Landry
42. You can’t win unless you learn how to lose. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
43. 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
44. Sports do not build character. They reveal it. – Heywood Broun
45. You win some, lose some, and wreck some. – Dale Earnhardt
46. You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. – Bobby Knight
47. Champions keep playing until they get it right. – Billie Jean King
48. Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. – Red Auerbach
49. Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. – John Leonard
50. Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. – Mike Singletary
51. A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. – Jesse Owens
52. 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
53. Approach the game with no preset agendas and you’ll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. – Phil Jackson
54. God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. – Eric Liddell
55. If you think it’s hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. – Jack Lemmon
56. Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. – Herbert Hoover
57. If you drink don’t drive. Don’t even putt. – Dean Martin
58. Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. – Jack Benny
59. Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. – Dave Barry
60. If you watch a game, it’s fun. If you play it, it’s recreation. If you work at it, it’s golf. – Bob Hope
61. Golf is a game in which you yell ‘fore,’ shoot six, and write down five. – Paul Harvey
62. 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
63. I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures. – Earl Warren
64. Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. – Bobby Unser
65. Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. – William Wordsworth
66. I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. – Gerald R. Ford
67. I won’t predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. – Michael Phelps
68. You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. – Charles Barkley
69. Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. – Woodrow Wilson
70. One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. – Knute Rockne
71. Fans don’t boo nobodies. – Reggie Jackson
72. It’s a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. – Pete Rose
73. If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. – Phil Jackson
74. The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. – Steve Garvey
75. Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. – Jim Bishop
76. The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. – Martin Mull
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