731 Quotes Regarding Sports


Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster.
Joe Adcock

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn

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 professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?
Al Boliska

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.
Shaquille O'Neal

I'm a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
Sasha Cohen

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 records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus

He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
Jack Nicklaus

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 they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can.
Jack Nicklaus

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.
Jim Bouton

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
Sam Snead

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.
Joe E. Lewis

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?
Ben Hogan

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Doug Collins

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.
George Deukmejian

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.
Lee Trevino

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola

What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.
Arnold Palmer