| Quote 55 | Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? |
| Quote 56 | Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. |
| Quote 71 | Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. |
| Quote 85 | Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on. |
| Quote 134 | A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
- Jesse Owens |
| Quote 158 | Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. |
| Quote 170 | Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. |
| Quote 205 | Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't ... |
| Quote 211 | Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. |
| Quote 238 | All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. |
| Quote 288 | All sports for all people.
- Pierre de Coubertin |
| Quote 324 | 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... |
| Quote 341 | Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. |
| Quote 428 | Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. |
| Quote 429 | A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. |
| Quote 441 | Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. |
| Quote 1308 | As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That&#... |
| Quote 3219 | If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead. |
| Quote 3576 | Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. |
| Quote 3814 | I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. |
| Quote 4085 | If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? |
| Quote 4460 | Golf is a good walk spoiled.
- Mark Twain |
| Quote 6085 | Sports do not build character. They reveal it. |
| Quote 7498 | Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
- Duke Ellington |
| Quote 7577 | Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence. |
| Quote 7578 | Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins... |
| Quote 7614 | When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait un... |
| Quote 7687 | Life is about timing.
- Carl Lewis |
| Quote 7716 | The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen. |
| Quote 7727 | Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple. |
| Quote 7732 | Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top. |
| Quote 7751 | Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. |
| Quote 7838 | If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. |
| Quote 7888 | The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro is stalking somebody again but that anyone cares that much about a bas... |
| Quote 7926 | I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok. |
| Quote 8033 | Boxing has become America's tragic theater. |
| Quote 8078 | Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
- Michael Jordan |
| Quote 8219 | Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose. |
| Quote 8267 | Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are plenty. |
| Quote 8304 | The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. |
| Quote 8318 | Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. |
| Quote 8417 | Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. |
| Quote 8419 | Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect... |
| Quote 8435 | Success is where preparation and opportunity meet. |
| Quote 8502 | Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. |
| Quote 8538 | Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Billie Jean King |
| Quote 8603 | I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. |
| Quote 8662 | Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamental... |
| Quote 8663 | You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing. |
| Quote 8665 | One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth. |
| Quote 8770 | Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught. |
| Quote 8936 | Champions keep playing until they get it right. |
| Quote 8987 | 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. |
| Quote 9002 | The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. |
| Quote 9064 | I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match. |
| Quote 9123 | Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.
- Norman Ralph Augustine |
| Quote 9164 | 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. |
| Quote 9182 | The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. |
| Quote 9216 | I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible. |
| Quote 9290 | Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. |
| Quote 9318 | It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up. |
| Quote 9332 | If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. |
| Quote 9348 | It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. |
| Quote 9388 | You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. |
| Quote 9438 | I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me. |
| Quote 9452 | Wrestling is ballet with violence.
- Jesse Ventura |
| Quote 9512 | 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. |
| Quote 9522 | I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into profess... |
| Quote 9613 | I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bot... |
| Quote 9642 | Nobody roots for Goliath.
- Wilt Chamberlain |
| Quote 9789 | Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. |
| Quote 9926 | I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators. |
| Quote 9960 | God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure. |
| Quote 9991 | Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. |
| Quote 10012 | I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. |
| Quote 10088 | Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors. |
| Quote 10122 | If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf. |
| Quote 10137 | He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young ... |
| Quote 10228 | The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register. |
| Quote 10252 | Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable. |
| Quote 10298 | There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works. |
| Quote 10317 | I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog. |
| Quote 10323 | Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. |
| Quote 10329 | 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 ke... |
| Quote 10332 | Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. |
| Quote 10344 | Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun. |
| Quote 10474 | One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. |
| Quote 10508 | It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square. |
| Quote 10513 | Fans don't boo nobodies.
- Reggie Jackson |
| Quote 10523 | You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. |
| Quote 10567 | If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me ... |
| Quote 10592 | I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things. |
| Quote 10723 | Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. |
| Quote 10742 | Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. |
| Quote 10808 | I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press. |
| Quote 10823 | Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic plea... |
| Quote 10972 | You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
- Dale Earnhardt |
| Quote 10987 | Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coinci... |
| Quote 11004 | You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball. |
| Quote 11129 | If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. |
| Quote 11130 | There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at t... |
| Quote 11141 | Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five. |
| Quote 11240 | Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness. |
| Quote 11249 | What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive. |
| Quote 11263 | Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play. |
| Quote 11271 | 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. |
| Quote 11296 | What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough. |
| Quote 11328 | Sometimes in football you have to score goals. |
| Quote 11349 | If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going b... |
| Quote 11386 | 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 ... |
| Quote 11395 | The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. |
| Quote 11454 | Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day. |
| Quote 11477 | The integrity of the game is everything.
- Peter Ueberroth |
| Quote 11542 | The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. |
| Quote 11544 | I went through baseball as "a player to be named later." |
| Quote 11590 | Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is best. |
| Quote 11818 | When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. |
| Quote 11904 | 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 winni... |
| Quote 11914 | You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get. |
| Quote 11917 | 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 fi... |
| Quote 11952 | There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my ... |
| Quote 12069 | Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after. |
| Quote 12088 | What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $12 million is that he carries no warranty. |
| Quote 12123 | You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black. |
| Quote 12144 | I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game. |
| Quote 12202 | Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. |
| Quote 12228 | The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them. |
| Quote 12254 | If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death. |
| Quote 12274 | Most ball games are lost, not won.
- Casey Stengel |
| Quote 12283 | 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 r... |
| Quote 12343 | Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing. |
| Quote 12360 | My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. |
| Quote 12417 | He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much... |
| Quote 12435 | You can't win unless you learn how to lose. |
| Quote 12442 | Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you? |
| Quote 12509 | Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
- Ted Williams |
| Quote 12541 | He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the mornin... |
| Quote 12547 | He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win. |
| Quote 12611 | I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures. |
| Quote 12623 | 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 defin... |
| Quote 12698 | It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. |
| Quote 12731 | I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. |
| Quote 12831 | Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air. |
| Quote 12879 | The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The ne... |
| Quote 12880 | The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. |
| Quote 12901 | If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman. |
| Quote 12920 | If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. |
| Quote 13104 | Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. |
| Quote 13117 | The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie. |
| Quote 13140 | Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. |
| Quote 13175 | You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work. |
| Quote 13304 | Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. |
| Quote 13320 | I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. |
| Quote 13694 | Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? |
| Quote 13720 | I'll let the racket do the talking.
- John McEnroe |
| Quote 13832 | 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'... |
| Quote 13860 | He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen. |
| Quote 13876 | He's got everything. He' not a great player yet because he hasn't won any major championships, but it's a matter of time... |
| Quote 14061 | 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. |