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'Twas Game Six of the Series when out of the sky, Flew Sergio's parach... - Phyllis Orlikoff Flug
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player pl... - Wayne Gretzky
A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. - Jesse Owens
A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who ha... - Roger Kahn
Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taug... - Ambrose Bierce
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. - Gordie Howe
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team ... - Doug Collins
As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, c... - Michael Jordan
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, bask... - John Leonard
Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball c... - Jim Murray
Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. - Joe Garagiola
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you s... - Jim Bouton
Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, ... - Red Auerbach
Basketball, hockey and track meets are action heaped upon action, clim... - Roger Kahn
Boxing has become America's tragic theater. - Joyce Carol Oates
Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed. - Roger Kahn
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. - Norman Augustine
Champions keep playing until they get it right. - Billie Jean King
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. - Satchel Paige
Fans don't boo nobodies. - Reggie Jackson
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may r... - Herbert Hoover
Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unb... - Tom Landry
Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye. - Roger Kahn
Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can kee... - Jack Benny
Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy without being good at t... - Jimmy DeMaret
Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down fiv... - Paul Harvey
Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think... - Jim Bishop
Half the lies they tell about me aren't true. - Yogi Berra
Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards? - Al Boliska
He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen. - Jack Nicklaus
He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball... - Nick Faldo
He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win. - Gary McCord
He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That'... - Jack Nicklaus
He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really ... - Gary McCord
He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the tr... - Gary McCord
Horse racing is animated roulette. - Roger Kahn
I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan
I couldn't see the ball come off the club for the first 27 holes. It c... - Buddy Marucci
I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. ... - Al McGuire
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to g... - Rogers Hornsby
I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf. - Tug McGraw
I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my soul. - Phil Jackson
I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who wer... - Gerald R. Ford
I have lost this battle but I will win the war. - Anna Kournikova
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectato... - Gerald R. Ford
I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot... when you t... - Michael Jordan
I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play. - Joe E. Lewis
I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. - Gilbert K. Chesterton
I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. ... - Roger Kahn
I went through baseball as "a player to be named later." - Joe Garagiola
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out. - Rodney Dangerfield
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down. - Robert Frost
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee. - Muhammad Ali
I'll let the racket do the talking. - John McEnroe
I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just w... - Shaquille O'Neal
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 ga... - Michael Jordan
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grand... - George Brett
If I weren't earning million a year to dunk a basketball, most peop... - Charles Barkley
If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score? - Vince Lombardi
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of... - Tommy Bolt
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big acco... - Chris Evert Lloyd
If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt. - Dean Martin
If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out t... - Shaquille O'Neal
If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball. - Phil Jackson
If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong go... - Jack Lemmon
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you... - Bob Hope
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; ... - Michael Jordan
Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wa... - Joe Kapp
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game beg... - A. Bartlett Giamatti
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is wh... - Robert Lynd
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat ... - Muhammad Ali
Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. - Michael Jordan
Life is about timing. - Carl Lewis
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that t... - Robert Graves
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they'... - William James
My family got all over me because they said Bush is only for the rich ... - Charles Barkley
My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feel... - Hank Aaron
My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself... - Carl Lewis
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your gut... - Jimmy Carter
Nobody roots for Goliath. - Wilt Chamberlain
Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get bet... - Paul Coffey
Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball stra... - Joe Garagiola
One advantage of golf over bowling is that you never lose a bowling ba... - Don Carter
One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you c... - Joe Garagiola
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell ... - Rogers Hornsby
People think baseball players make million and million a year. T... - Pete Incaviglia
Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques ... - Greg LeMond
Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold. - Joseph Chilton Pearce
Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survi... - Frank Gifford
Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 strike-outs would mean tha... - Norm Cash
Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inc... - Ben Hogan
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with ha... - George Orwell
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser. - Vince Lombardi
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. - Dave Barry
Sports do not build character. They reveal it. - Heywood Broun
Tennis and golf are best played, not watched. - Roger Kahn
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an a... - Billie Jean King
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed... - Erma Bombeck
The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is th... - Steve Garvey
The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improv... - George Deukmejian
The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to ... - John Madden
The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said, "There's a star." The... - Gary Player
The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billia... - Ernest Hemingway
The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is not that Robert De Niro ... - Bernie Lincicome
The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course. - Billy Graham
The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose. - Ernie Banks
The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot ... - Hank Aaron
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass. - Martin Mull
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bu... - Bob Lemon
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it. - Reggie Jackson
There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neit... - Charlie Lau
There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors ... - Jack Nicklaus
These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich l... - Charles Barkley
Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for... - Blaise Pascal
Tiger is the best athlete that this level of golf has seen. He's lean,... - Buddy Marucci
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the... - Joe Adcock
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi
What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the fli... - Arnold Palmer
What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough. - Greg Norman
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't pl... - Hugo L. Black
Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for... - Dan Duva
Winners never quit and quitters never win. - Vince Lombardi
Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. - Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. - Vince Lombardi
Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing. - Vince Lombardi
You can't win unless you learn how to lose. - Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketb... - Bobby Knight
You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for mon... - Greg LeMond
You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white an... - Charles Barkley
You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games. - Harry Caray
You miss 100% of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end... - Jim Bouton
You win some, lose some, and wreck some. - Dale Earnhardt
You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you. - Yogi Berra