Quotes about Sports

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."

"Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win."

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."

"Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference."

"Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry."

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

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."

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

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

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children."

"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser."

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

"I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures."

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game."

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."

"Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

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

"Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors."

"It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square."

"I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible."

"Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."

"The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game."

"I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators."

"Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up."