731 Quotes Regarding Sports


Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi

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

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

Adversity causes some men to break others to break records.
William Arthur Ward

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
William James

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

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
Yogi Berra

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

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
Ernest Hemingway

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

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

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt Whitman

The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course.
Billy Graham

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

Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught.
Ambrose Bierce

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

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe