Sports Quotes

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

I started thinking about little kids putting a cylindrical peg through a circular hole, and how they do it over and over again for months when they figure it out, and how basketball was basically just a slightly more aerobic version of that same exercise.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.