If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. William Shakespeare
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts. Tommy Lasorda
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world. Babe Ruth
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead. Erma Bombeck
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion. Mia Hamm
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. John Wooden
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course. Hank Aaron
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people. Avery Brundage
The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for. Pierre De Coubertin
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player. Bill Klem
Your job is to umpire for the ball and not the player.
You are only as good as the coach thinks you are. Brian Williams
You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees. Bill Lee
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat. Bob Uecker
Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.
A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone. Andrew H. Malcolm
A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly. William Sloan Coffin
It's too bad that one has to conceive of sports as being the only arena where risks are, [for] all of life is risk exercise. That's the only way to live more freely, and more interestingly.
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps. Willie Mays
Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer. Larry Bird
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball. Christy Mathewson
A boy cannot begin playing ball too early. I might almost say that while he is still creeping on all fours he should have a bouncing rubber ball.
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life. Chris Evert
If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them. Joaquin Andujar
There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.
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