Sports Quotes

Outcasts may grow up to be novelists and filmmakers and computer tycoons, but they will never be the athletic ruling class.

~ Chuck Klosterman

I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I'm glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it's good entertainment. If we're lucky, it'll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn't you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they'll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I'm ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I'll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.

~ George Carlin

I'm the best there is, the best there was, and the best there ever will be.

~ Bret Hart

Sports fans eat shit.

~ George Carlin

My swag was phenomenal.

~ Gilbert Arenas

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it, it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

~ John Irving

An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.

~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips

So they left the subject and played croquet, which is a very good game for people who are annoyed with one another, giving many opportunities for venting rancor.

~ Rose Macaulay

Swimming is simply moving meditation.

~ Cesar Nikko Caharian

i could never be a sports writer, unless my assignment was to write 'sports sports sports sports sports' for three pages

~ Megan Boyle

I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else.

~ J. Sterling

I'm playing, I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.

~ Steve Nash

Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

~ W.p. Kinsella

It seems that soccer tournaments create those relationships: people gathered together in pubs and living rooms, a whole country suddenly caring about the same event. A World Cup is the sort of common project that otherwise barely exists in modern societies.

~ Simon Kuper

He already knew he could coach. All you had to do was look at each of your players and ask yourself: What story does this guy wish someone would tell him about himself? And then you told the guy that story.

~ Chad Harbach

Run and become.Become and run.Run to succeed in the outer world.Become to proceed in the inner world.

~ Sri Chinmoy

I haven't celebrated coming in No. 2 too many times.

~ Mark Messier

If teams keep playing us this way, it's going to be like this

~ Peyton Manning

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

~ James Barrett Reston

The building of publicly funded stadiums has become a substitue for anything resembling an urban policy.

~ Dave Zirin

If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. All that has been decided for them in advance. All they need to do is follow the orders given to them before the game, showing them where to run and how to violently deploy the meat of their bodies against the meat that is running at them. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the coach or yelling surrogate dad who will never be happy.

~ John Hodgman

It's because you absolutely love the sport.

~ Nastia Liukin

I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

~ Leo Durocher

I've fallen in love with baseball.

~ Nick Jonas

In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.

~ Bobby Charlton

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

~ George Plimpton

Other than sports, only war and catastrophe can create this sort of national unity.

~ Simon Kuper

I'm not doing it for media attention, not doing it for sponsors, not for money.

~ Nastia Liukin

Sometimes, in a tight game with runners on, digging in at short, ready to break with the ball, a peace I'd never felt before would paralyze the diamond. For a moment of eternal stillness I felt as if I were cocked at the very heart of the Midwest.

~ Stuart Dybek

Philippine culture was clearly different. It wasn't the fan's duty to remain aloof in the presence of stars, it was the player's responsibility to show gratitude to the average Filipino.

~ Rafe Bartholomew

Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

~ Nick Hornby

Life is full of all sorts of setbacks and twists and turns and disappointments. The character of this team will be how well you will come back from this letdown, this defeat. You could still be a great team and you can still accomplish great things as football players but it's going to take a real resolve to do it. -Coach Ladouceur

~ Neil Hayes

Victories are a byproduct of a larger vision. It begins with a question: How much do we owe one another?Each coach's and player's individual answer is one of the building blocks of The Streak. De La Salle separates itself from the competition because everyone from the head coach to the least accomplished player on the roster is willing to make the sacrifices necessary to be their absolute best.

~ Neil Hayes

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

~ Mickey Mantle

I've often told people that the greatness of this football program will emerge when The Streak ends. I hope you will all live up to that. It's all numbers. It's nothing. It's not what we're about. It's not what this school represents. -Coach Frank Allocco

~ Neil Hayes

You all know and lived the 'secrets' to De La Salle's success-love, brotherhood, sacrifice, discipline, heart, courage, passion, honesty. These are not just 'catch words' we throw around to impress others or justify our existence. We know what these mean because we created it and lived it. Understand that with that knowledge there is no turning back for us-ignorance is not an option. It is your future duty, no matter where you end up, to create the environment you have created here by bringing your best selves to the table.

~ Neil Hayes

I see great things in baseball.

~ Walt Whitman

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

~ Polly Horvath

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

~ Simon Kuper