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.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

I was gonna rip his heart out. I'm the best ever. I'm the most brutal and vicious, the most ruthless champion there has ever been. No one can stop me. Lennox is a conqueror? No! He's no Alexander! I'm Alexander! I'm the best ever. I'm Sonny Liston. I'm Jack Dempsey. There's never been anyone like me. I'm from their cloth. There is no one who can match me. My style is impetuous, my defense is impregnable, and I'm just ferocious. I want his heart! I want to eat his children! Praise be to Allah!

My main objective is to be professional but to kill him.

You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left.

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.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?

There is no 'I' in 'team.'

Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.

Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.

When you're as great as I am, it's hard to be humble.

There are only two places in the league--first place and no place.

This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.