731 Quotes Regarding Sports


Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It's hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey

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.
Hank Aaron

The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.
Joyce Carol Oates

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 five.
John Updike

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
Ben Hogan

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 get you off.
Bill Veeck

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire

All sports for all people.
Pierre de Coubertin

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Thierry Henry

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.
Joseph Chilton Pearce

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 golf swing.
Ben Hogan

Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King

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 coming.
Charles Barkley

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.
Frank Gifford

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett