419 Sports Quotes

Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.

I'm opposed to any sport that reduces the coefficient of friction between me and the ground.

I think the best part of being gay is when you're done [with sex], you could turn over and talk about football.

I started racing go-karts. And I love karts. It's the most breath taking sport in the world. More than F1, indeed, I used to like it most.

It's important that the drivers stay together, because in difficult moments we have each other. If we are not together the financial and political interests of the organisers and constructors come to the fore.

I don't know driving in another way which isn't risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other's.

It's going to be a season with lots of accidents, and I'll risk saying that we'll be lucky if something really serious doesn't happen.

You will never know the feeling of a driver when winning a race. The helmet hides feelings that cannot be understood.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery. I have the same violent temper my father and older brother had. Both died of injuries from street fights in Baltimore, fights begun by flare-ups of their tempers.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

After years of patient study (and with cricket there can be no other kind), I have decided that there is nothing wrong with the game that the introduction of golf carts wouldn't fix in a hurry.

Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

There was open collusion between the Russian players. They agreed ahead of time to draw the games they played against each other. Every time they drew they gave each other half a point.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding.

College football is a sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two!

Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics.

I like my players to be married and in debt. That's the way you motivate them.

The Cubs are due in sixty-two.

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Baseball is a game played by idiots for morons.

Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes.

If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?

Cannavaro is having a fantastic World Cup. He is without question the strongest defender at this tournament and the absolute number one in the world.

'Pain is temporary, glory...lasts forever!'

'If I had been born ugly, you would never have heard of Pele.'

[When Michael Parkinson asked how soon before kick-off George had made love:] 'Half time!'

[On Paul Gascoigne:] 'I once said Gazza's IQ was less than his shirt number and he asked me: 'What's an IQ?''

[On the infamous Battle of the Buffet between Manchester United and Arsenal players:] 'That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.'

'Boss, I think I've found you a genius.' (The telegram sent to Manchester United manager Sir Matt Busby by talent scout Bob Bishop, who discovered a 15-year-old Best playing for Cregagh Boys' Club.)

'He's not George Best, but then again, no-one is.' (Commentator Clive Tyldesley.)

'The closest I got to him was when we shook hands at the end of the game.' (Northampton Town player Roy Fairfax, who had been marking Best when he scored six goals in an 8-2 FA Cup win for Man Utd in 1970.)

'Shellito was taken off suffering from twisted blood!' (United team-mate Pat Crerand after Best had given Chelsea full-back Ken Shellito a torrid time.)

'He was able to use either foot - sometimes he seemed to have six.' (Sir Matt Busby)

'After his first training session in heaven, George Best, from his favourite right wing, turned the head of God who was filling in at left-back. I would love him to save me a place in his team, George Best that is, not God.' (Eric Cantona has pays tribute to the late George Best)

'George Best invented rock 'n' roll football' (Former France and Juventus midfield great Michel Platini)

'From the second best player in the world' (On a signed football left as tribute to George Best by Pele)

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.

I watch a lot of baseball on the radio.

To carry a rabbit's foot is a sign that you are a good shot- or have a friend that is.

It is hard to tell where the MCC ends and the Church of England begins.

People would say to Al Brown: 'You are not a boxer. You are a dancer.' He laughed at this, and won.

Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun, What strenuous singles we played after tea, We in the tournament - you against me!

Who among us doesn't like NASCAR?

We are just 'the idiots' this year.

We're just being ourselves and having fun playing baseball. The biggest thing is when people look at our team, they can see that we're having a lot of fun.

It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.

Now overcoming that deficit from the Yankees, us not being very smart, us just playing baseball, I mean, that's the bottom line. I mean, we try to eliminate the thinking, and we've tried to let our natural abilities take over. So I think that's why the phrase about 'the idiots' kind of took off. But we don't think. If we use our brains, we're only hurting the team.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

I know this is the greatest moment in my baseball career. We're world champions now. This is a dream come true.

'Mike Awesome, get your pussy ass out here so I can kick your ass!'

I've been down with kickball since the third grade, man.

There isn't anything on earth as depressing as an old sportswriter.

In America, it is sport that is the opiate of the masses.

'Austin 3:16 says I just whooped your ass!'

'I will stomp a mudhole in your ass and walk it dry!'

I said: 'Baseball is the hurrah game of the republic!' He was hilarious: 'That's beautiful: the hurrah game! well - it's our game: that's the chief fact in connection with it: America's game: has the snap, go fling, of the American atmosphere - belongs as much to our institutions, fits into them as significantly, as our constitutions, laws: is just as important in the sum total of our historic life.'

I see great things in baseball, It will take our people out-of-doors, fill them with oxygen, give them a larger physical stoicism, tend to relieve us from being a nervous, dyspeptic set, repair those losses and be a blessing to us.

'Like I say, it's almost embarrassing to talk about. I don't know if Michael Jordan or Bill Gates or Alexander the Great or anyone is worth this type of money, but that's the market we're in today. That's what Mr. Hicks decided to pay me, and now it's time to pay him back and win a couple championships.' -

'The great thing is that he's always looking to improve. How good can he be? Well, we're talking about a guy who is Hall of Fame caliber.' --Lou Piniella

'Well, what happened is there was the 80's steroids boom, and, uh... so, now, 'mysteriously,' wrestlers are dying in their sleep in hotel rooms... of heart failure... I don't think it's connected.'

Let's go, Head Cheese!'

'Give me a Hell Yeah!'

'Oh Hell Yeah!'

'Ah ah!'

Dudley Boyz