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?

Leavin' Sacramento, Sacramento there I go Leavin' Sacramento Sacramento there I go They got some fat-assed women there and Rock is gonna just say no Well I might take a plane, I might take a train, How do you people live here? You must be insane I'm leavin' Sacramento, Sacramento I won't stay, But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May! I'll be sure to comeback when the Lakers beat the Kings in May

Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I'm going to start playing basketball. (1993)

I spent all of my life trying to stay away from sports and here I am in a sporting arena. (12/30/93 at the Great Western Forum, Inglewood, California)

Just bring it!

Leavin' Sacramento, Sacramento there I go Leavin' Sacramento Sacramento there I go They got some fat-assed women there and Rock is gonna just say no Well I might take a plane, I might take a train, How do you people live here? You must be insane I'm leavin' Sacramento, Sacramento I won't stay, But I'll be sure to come back when the Lakers beat the Kings in May! I'll be sure to comeback when the Lakers beat the Kings in May

To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today

I went round to all these minority sports and I couldn't really appreciate them. Fencing, for example, is just 'click, click, click' and it is over. Then they retire. Then they go again 'On guard - click, click, click' and it is over again. You just think, 'what is this sport?' I thought this is really boring and then I went to Judo and it was just the same thing. These two guys just endlessly circling each other, acting as if what they are trying to do is take the others shirt off without him realising this is what they are trying to do. I just thought 'what is this? I don't understand this at all'. Then I went to table tennis, which obviously I could identify with because I had played it myself - not quite at Olympic standard - but I could understand it. It suddenly became clear to me that these people really are so far beyond anything I could ever dream of becoming. I felt really terrible because I hadn't appreciated the fencers. The reason I couldn't follow them was because they were so damn good. Their hands were so quick that I couldn't see what was going on.

... I had some suggestions [about fencing]. I thought that you could encourage surprise attacks. I thought that would be very good. I kind of liked the idea of arming one guy with a conventional sword but giving the other a pikestaff. My favourite was the idea of blindfolding one of the competitors or blindfolding them both and spinning them around a bit so they were a little bit unstable and then just pushing them towards each other. It would make each match go on a bit longer.

The real point of mountain climbing, as of most hard sports, is that it voluntarily tests the human spirit against the fiercest odds, not that it achieves anything more substantial - or even wins the contest, for that matter. For the most part, its heroism is of a subjective kind. It was the fate of Hillary and Tenzing, though, to become very public heroes indeed, and it was a measure of the men that over the years they truly grew into the condition. Perhaps they thought that just being the first to climb a hill was hardly qualification for immortality; perhaps they instinctively realized destiny had another place for them. For they both became, in the course of time, representatives not merely of their particular nations but of half of humanity. Astronauts might justly claim that they were envoys of all humanity; Hillary and Tenzing, in a less spectacular kind, came to stand for the small nations of the world, the young ones, the tucked-away and the up-and-coming.

A four wood I hit on the 13th hole at Bel Air Country Club in June of 1945. It landed right on the green and rolled into the cup for a hole in one

[T]hey wanted... another Joe Louis. A white man's black man... Didn't these idiots realize that Cassius Clay was the name of a slave owner? ... Had I been black and my name Cassius Clay, I damned well would have changed it!

Jack Johnson (boxer) - (1878-1946), first African-American world heavyweight champion

Teasing Gorilla Monsoon during WrestleMania III

'And I was wondering why it took so long for me to get to a World Series -- 4200+ games, 30+ years ... Well, I guess the Good Lord was just waiting for me to put on the pinstripes.' 1996

There was this really prim and proper British woman who used to run horse races for the lesbians on the ship, and the lesbians would get to name the horses, and the really prim and proper British woman would have to read out the names. 'Horse number one, Galloping ... Clitoris... Horse number one, Galloping Clitoris. Very well, carry on... Horse number two.... No Dick for Me. Horse number two, No Dick for Me. Rather a rude name, don't you think? No Dick for Me? Should be, No Dick for Me, Thank You.'

'What's my opinion of Kingman's performance!? What the fuck do you think is my opinion of it? I think it was fucking horseshit! Put that in, I don't fucking care. Opinion of his performance!? Jesus Christ, he beat us with three fucking home runs! What the fuck do you mean, 'What is my opinion of his performance?' How could you ask me a question like that, 'What is my opinion of his performance?' Jesus Christ, he hit three home runs! Jesus Christ! I'm fucking pissed off to lose the fucking game. And you ask me my opinion of his performance! Jesus Christ. That's a tough question to ask me, isn't it? 'What is my opinion of his performance?'' -- in response to a question from reporter Paul Olden about slugger Dave Kingman's hitting three home runs during a May 14, 1978 10-7 victory by the Cubs over the Dodgers. The 'censored' version of this diatribe, with the many 'beeps' adding to its humorous effect, can be heard on one of the Baseball's Greatest Hits CD's.[4]

...and that makes the game over (after a New York Giants interception)

[getting ready to bump Girard in a race] Hey, it's me, America! [Choom] Macchiato

Overwhelming underdogs.

We don't have a DaVon in this group,

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Hey, come watch football with us in our Prime Rib Room!

Chinamen are really good at ping pong because of their horizontal sight, they see the whole net.

I just made a shot at the buzzer. Three points to go into half-time. Me - 3. You - 0.

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

I once admitted-to my shame- That football was a brutal game. Because She hates it.

47. I need 47 energy.

'Is this Groundhog Day?'

'The bitch is back!'

'Whaddya think now?!'

Ayrton Senna was an extraordinary racing driver. His skills, craft, subtlety and courage were of such magnitude that he dwarfed his generation of drivers.

The only real game - I think - in the world is baseball.

I'd give a year of my life if I could hit a homerun on opening day of this great new park.

'Liverpool wouldn't be the club it is today without Bill Shankly and Bob Paisley and the players who played there. When I first went there it was a typical Second Division ground and look at it now!'

'If Shankly was the Anfield foreman, Paisley was the brickie, ready to build an empire with his own hands.'

Clay is so young and has been misled by the wrong people... He might as well have joined the Ku Klux Klan.

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

Fishing is a jerk at one end of a line waiting for a jerk at the other end of a line.

A batsman given to run-stealing need not open his mouth to gain the reputation of a wit.

I would like a bat with the words WHAT A ROTTEN WICKET-KEEPER stamped in large letters on the back of it.

Your BOY, _______

I have him on fantasy

You tell 'em hard on.

Fate ginnastica e non medicina. Abbandonate i libri e datevi all'ippica.

We got a good win today. I'm going to be there offensively, there's no question in my mind. But it feels good to contribute in some other way.

'I'm excited (after hitting for the cycle), but I guess it hasn't hit me yet. I'm only the second Mariner to do it and the other is Jay Buhner, who can't run.'

'Why do people sing Take Me Out to The Ballgame when they're already there?'

'I'd rather have a Gold Glove (Award) than a Silver Slugger (Award). Defense is so much more of a team game, and one of my goals this year was to make fewer than 25 errors.'

'Alex is one person, and as it's been shown in New York, one person can't win a championship. He couldn't do it here. He can't do it there. You have to have a team, and you've got to have pitching.' --Rangers owner Tom Hicks, December 24, 2006 [2]

There are several differences between a footballl game and a revolution. For one thing, a football game usually lasts longer and the participants wear uniforms. Also there are more injuries at a football game.

'Head Head Head Head Head!!'

'Not now, I'm wrestling!!' (Said to head during a match on his early run on WWF)

Monday, n. In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game.

Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words.

'Some folks call tennis a rich people's sport or a white person's game. I guess I started too early because I just thought it was something fun to do. Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis. You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.'

'When I took the match point, all the years, all the effort, all the support I had received over the years came together. It's a long way from Brook Field to Wimbledon.'

'I don't want to be remembered for my tennis accomplishments,' he once said. 'That's no contribution to society. That [tennis] was purely selfish; that was for me.'

all sports are time control demonstrations...

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter -- he fires until it's empty, then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinker-ball pitchers.