Quotes About Sports I

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. ~George A. Sheehan

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. ~George Bernard Shaw

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~H.L. Mencken

The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~Jerry Barber, about golf

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy – and a little more patient. ~Bo Jackson

There isn’t a single professional sports season now that doesn’t go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~James Reston

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. ~Sam Snead, about golf

There’s nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn’t cure. ~Mike Penner

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you’re going to have problems. You’ll be dead a lot. ~Dean Smith

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast. ~Steven Wright

Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ~Al McGuire

Sports is human life in microcosm. ~Howard Cosell

I think you enjoy the game more if you don’t know the rules. Anyway you’re on the same wavelength as the referees. ~Jonathan Davies, 1995

Losing is the great American sin. ~Jerome Holtzman

The essence of sports is that while you’re doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it. ~Roger Bannister

If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? ~Vince Lombardi

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. ~Emil Zatopek

It’s like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. ~Joe Kinnear

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. ~Robin Williams

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. ~Ron Bolton

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. ~Roland Barthes