Sports Quotes

ESPN, is having the ability to foretell future outcomes in sports.

~ Anthony Liccione

And all those things you listed right now, they’rethings Garrett and I do together. Dude, you don’t want me. You want me andGarrett.

~ Elle Kennedy

someone like Grace. Someone exactly like Grace, with her Ted Bundy rantsand her calming presence and—hello, irony.

~ Elle Kennedy

I broke up with her to avoid getting into a serious relationship with her, and now it

~ Elle Kennedy

His eyes are a hazy swirl ofgray, like a thick mass of clouds gathering before an impending storm

~ Elle Kennedy

The accusation raises my hackles. “Why? Because I’m a player?” Indignation makesmy tone harsher than I intend for it to be. “Have you ever thought that maybe it’sbecause I haven’t met the right girl yet? But no, I couldn’t possibly want someone tocuddle with andwatch movies with, someone who wears my jersey and cheers for meat games, and cooks dinner with me the way you and Garrett—

~ Elle Kennedy

So on a scale of one to Adele, how bad was this breakup?

~ Jennifer Lane

There was no 'I' in team, but there was meat in team. And we were all dead meat.

~ Jennifer Lane

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

~ Roger Kahn

But don’t you find it boring to wear only two colors?” “Not at all. I find it liberating. I believe my life has value, and I don’t want to waste it thinking about clothing,” Malcolm said. “I don’t want to think about what I will wear in the morning. Truly, can you imagine anything more boring than fashion? Professional sports, perhaps. Grown men swatting little balls, while the rest of the world pays money to applaud. But, on the whole, I find fashion even more tedious than sports.

~ Michael Crichton

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.

~ A. Bartlett Giamatti

I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

~ Maya Angelou

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

~ Philip Wrigley

Turns out I’m not so easily broken.

~ Melissa Cutler

My mouth only does one thing well, and talking’s not it.

~ Melissa Cutler

It’s you and me, and all you have to do is breathe. I’m going to take care of everything else.

~ Melissa Cutler

I’m sorry he won’t talk to you. And I’m sorry that he keeps hurting you. I really am. I don’t know how to fix things between you two, but I think a place to start would be for you to stop pointing out how flawed he is and start looking for the good in him.

~ Melissa Cutler

Our culture has become so obsessed with celebrity that it’s easy to confuse fame with success. They are not the same thing.

~ Daniel Rodriguez

Appearances can be misleading. You just never know what’s inside someone until he’s tested.

~ Daniel Rodriguez

When you’re as small as I am, people don’t expect you to be much of an athlete. You either wilt under the weight of low expectations, or you rise above them.

~ Daniel Rodriguez

Rarely has a new player on the game captured so much attention so fast.

~ Auliq Ice

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

~ David Mccullough

Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

Now channelize the energy of your kids by enrolling them in different sports activities for kids like golf, soccer, volleyball and many more. Get the details of such activities at Sacramento4Kids.

~ Sacramento4Kids

AFC Leopards were as thrilling a side as ever took the pitch and they dominated East African football in the eighties. That Kenyan players were an excitable bunch was attested to in one memorable Leopards match, with the opposing goalkeeper being handcuffed and dragged away to jail by police.

~ David Bennun

It ain't over 'til it's over.

~ Yogi Berra

I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.

~ Michael Jordan

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

Don't let them drag you down by rumors just go with what you believe in.

~ Michael Jordan

The thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

~ Terry Pratchett

[On writing:] There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing t

~ David Halberstam

Guys care about sports teams. I'm not talking about simply rooting; I'm talking about a relationship that guys develop, a commitment to a sport team that guys take way more seriously than, for example, wedding vows.

~ Dave Barry

Ever bike? Now that's something that makes life worth living!...Oh, to just grip your handlebars and lay down to it, and go ripping and tearing through streets and road, over railroad tracks and bridges, threading crowds, avoiding collisions, at twenty miles or more an hour, and wondering all the time when you're going to smash up. Well, now, that's something! And then go home again after three hours of it...and then to think that tomorrow I can do it all over again!

~ Jack London

football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.

~ Vince Lombardi Jr.

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.

~ Eric Liddell

They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you practice makes perfect. I wish they'd make up their minds.

~ Wilt Chamberlain

It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.

~ Hank Aaron

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

~ Ambrose Bierce

Everything you need is already inside.

~ Bill Bowerman