If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
Baseball is like driving, it's the one who gets home safely that counts.
Tommy Lasorda
Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships.
Michael Jordan
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Erma Bombeck
Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
John Wooden
I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
Hank Aaron
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
Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated; it satisfies the soul and frustrates the intellect. It is at the same time rewarding and maddening - and it is without a doubt the greatest game mankind has ever invented.
Arnold Palmer
Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.
Pierre De Coubertin
One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot, the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something.
Peter Marshall
You are only as good as the coach thinks you are.
Brian Williams
The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.
Thorstein Veblen
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
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
I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.
Shaquille O'neal
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
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
The chances are fifty-sixty.
Matti Nykänen
It doesn't matter who scores the points, it's who can get the ball to the scorer.
Larry Bird
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
I think that tennis is a lady's sport, so we should look out there like ladies.
Anna Kournikova
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
There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.
Joaquin Andujar
Sometimes one is without the pleasure of playing. But when the silence of the audience is perfect, we recover that.
Andre Segovia
The secret of golf is to turn three shots into two.
Bobby Jones
I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.
Reggie Jackson
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
Ted Williams
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
Bill Veeck
Sometimes the game of golf is just too difficult to endure with a golf club in your hands.
Bobby Jones
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
Anthony Starr
I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford
I squirm when I see athletes praying before a game. Don't they realize that if God took sports seriously he never would have created George Steinbrenner.
Mark Russell
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly
In this game of baseball, you live by the sword and die by it. You hit and get hit. Remember that.
Alvin Dark
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield
Any minute, any day, some players may break a long standing record. That's one of the fascinations about the game, the unexpected surprises.
Connie Mack
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
Golf is assuredly a mystifying game. It would seem that if a person has hit a golf ball correctly a thousand times, he should be able to duplicate the performance at will. But this is certainly not the case.
Bobby Jones
Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.
Robert Mugabe
It is nothing new or original to say that golf is played one stroke at a time. But it took me many years to realize it.
Bobby Jones
Football Is an honest game. It's true to life . It's a game about sharing. Football is a team game. So is life.
Joe Namath
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principle.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
When you look at where team sports are going, the National Football League is turning into organized warfare.
Oren Lyons, Jr.
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann
No other game combines the wonder of nature with the discipline of sport in such carefully planned ways. A great golf course both frees and challenges a golfer's mind.
Tom Watson
Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.
Sparky Anderson
I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.
Connie Mack
Any ballplayers that played for me on either the Cardinals or the Yankees could come to me if he were in need and I would give him a helping hand. I made only two exceptions, Carl Mays and Joe Bush. If they were in a gutter, I'd kick them.
Miller Huggins
I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different.
Carl Yastrzemski
It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.
Herb Elliott
After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.
Branch Rickey
Throughout its history, the international Olympic Committee has struggled to spread its ideal of fraternity, friendship, peace and universal understanding.
Juan Antonio Samaranch
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.
Grantland Rice
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood C. Broun
Representing Australia as an Olympian at Barcelona in 1992 and Atlanta 1996 were the proudest moments of my sporting career.
Michael Diamond
'I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.'
Bill Veeck
Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner
Tomorrow is always the future.
Matti Nykänen
Sometimes I wish I could have been a bit more relaxed, but then I wouldn't have been the same player.
Steffi Graf
If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.
Lila Acheson Wallace
All sports for all people.
Pierre De Coubertin
What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.
Chuck Tanner
We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
Whitey Herzog
Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.
Pierre De Coubertin
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
George F. Will
We had a convicted felon as the president. ... And no organization.
Felix Sabates
Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.
George F. Will
Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.
Russell Mark
The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Earl Weaver
I'm not a big sports fan, but I love it when they "slam dunk." That's sexy.
Emma Bunton
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard...
William Shakespeare
When you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose; it's how drunk you get.
Matt Groening
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.
Tiger Woods
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
Julia Child
To all the cynics, I'm sorry for you, ... I'm sorry you can't believe in miracles. This is a great sporting event and hard work wins it.
Lance Armstrong
After seven years, during which the team achieved success on the field and continually increased attendance, I have decided to look for a new challenge, ... I have yet to finalize my plans but I will remain part of the Berlin sports scene - that is for sure.
Michael Lang
Money is a subsidiary of success. People always want to sponsor you. Without them there would be no money in sport.
Clive Lloyd
The players aren't only great athletes, they are also fashion icons and this idea complements the crossover between sport and fashion.
Larry Scott
Kids playing sports should be about learning the game they're playing and having fun doing it.
John Tuozzo
Surfing is not an organized sport, but it does have rules. The surfer closest to the curl has the right of way.
Matt Armstrong
I can't wait for the race and experience first-hand why the sport has 75 million fans.
Josh Duhamel
We promise you a sporting contest, but we have enjoyed having this trophy in Europe for the last two years, and it is our intention to take it back home next Monday.
Bernhard Langer
If we're such a great employer, why aren't we facing the reality of the hard questions and the poor ratings that come in some of the employee surveys? We make a sport, it seems, of paying consultants a lot of money, bringing them in, baiting them, laughing at them and then kicking them out.
Daniel Mudd
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
Lincoln Steffens
These girls just love being part of a winning program. I get a lot of girls who can't play other sports and they excel in this one. It's just a great group.
Joe Rinaldo
That guy, he's done so much for the sport. He's an ambassador. He's always talking positive about the sport. It's kind of sad to think that it's his last season.
Adriano Moraes
Tennis is an international sport. It's a challenge getting to know each person's culture and learning how to motivate each player. Our diversity adds a different dimension or level, and that can that can be positive.
Jill Breslin
We did this study to see what is the economic impact in sports, with baseball in mind. While baseball is a good money generator, the surprise of this report is the biggest money raiser seems to be golf and tennis events.
Rep. Nancy Detert
Science is a contact sport. People think about it being genteel, but it's a tough game.
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen
After only four times on the board, she was hitting jumps, sliding rails and hitting boxes at some of the area's biggest ski hills. She will be competing in 2006-007, after only one year in the sport.
Kirk Ruston
Our girls were ready to play, and we hung in there and came back at the end. This is a team that had fun this year, and that is what high school sports is all about. And I think you can learn more in life when you lose than when you win. I think this will help them in the future.
Bobby Renzi
He loved the people and the sports here.
Hal Lebovitz
This will set us up in the future as a larger player nationally in sports marketing. Down the road you might point at the Sunshine State Games as our next goal.
Jeff Mielke
The Busch Series is quietly doing NBA or regular season baseball numbers. It's wearing out other sports. Busch will never be the Cup series, but we would like the new agreement for that to be a franchise of its own, treated with promotion and announcers that differentiate that series a little better as we go down the road.
Brian France
We're not prepared to talk about expanding it to juice and sports drinks until we know the system is working OK.
Andrea Cohen
It's an exciting sport to watch. It's a chess match, that's active.
Robert Locke
The national sport of England is obstacle-racing. People fill their rooms with useless and cumbersome furniture, and spend the rest of their lives in trying to dodge it.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree
I don't smoke or drink, I walk 5 miles a day and I'm on a nearly vegetarian diet. In some ways, my great lifelong love of sports has gotten me through this period and when ESPN came to me with this idea, I immediately saw it as part of my recovery.
Joe Eszterhas
Mobile ESPN has defined a new wireless category, and with that, we are positioning the service and our marketing around the idea that life will never get in the way of sports again. This is more than a phone -- it is like putting ESPN in your pocket.
Manish Jha
The deal today is better and more fair for both sides than it was in February. This agreement is very, very different than what's ever been a part of this sport. It's revenue-driven. Everyone here is talking about how do we grow the product? History will be able to look back and say there was an inflection point and a launching pad for all aspects for the game.
Bob Goodenow
We want to reach out not just to sports fans, but parents who are involved in their kids' lives.
John Maroon
To be honest, I have a hard time imagining college golf without Mike Holder coaching at OSU, ... He is responsible for me being a coach. Whether you like him or not, you can't help but respect him. He is truly one of the icons of our sport, and it won't be the same without him.
Fred Warren
There's so many variables in our sport. We try to minimize the likelihood of something going wrong.
Alex Izykowski
Now we're getting towards the end of the year and we're battling some skin infections and kidney ailments that just happen to be part of the sport.
Russ Hellickson
It's a combination of a passenger car and a sport utility.
John Mcelroy
It's just like the Red Sox-Yankees in our sport. There's a lot of hatred there, a lot of history.
Dan Lacouture
He's a (heck) of an athlete. He's a great kid. His accomplishments in these sports is quite an achievement.
Pat Tarrant
She's been a tremendous champion through the years. She's been a great ambassador to the sport. ... The bottom line is to pick the best team possible for the Olympic Games.
David Raith
These are animals that have been trained to kill. This is a blood sport.
Margo Castorena
This is great, this is a step in the right direction, but as we all know in every other sport, district is when the second season starts. So next week is where it really becomes important that we carry on. This is a good sign in that direction.
Alan Black
Just as in racing, the people who follow this sport connect with the sponsor of the fishermen they support.
David Vincent
He loves sports. He wants to get involved in sports broadcasting.
John Mcnicholas
There are probably two sporting events in the world that are bigger than the festival in terms of people ... the Olympics and the soccer World Cup, ... The soccer World Cup sold 2.7million tickets last year and we sold 2.6million between all the festivals.
Paul Gudgin
It's not something that natural talent plays as much a part in as drive. The guys that join are relatively good athletes who just didn't want to pursue their sport in college.
Scott Perry
They can lose in any sport but baseball. Then, he gets upset.
Preston Gomez
It's a local focus on celebrating the talents of our community, a way to view our past, whether it's history or sports or food, and exhibit the community's vision for the future.
Irene Koehler
I think everybody's aspirations as an elite athlete are to be in the top of their sport, and I think (the Olympics) are attainable for Steven. He's in the top 5 percent of divers I've seen.
Jeff Shaffer
One of the ways you can do that is to involve as many cyclists as possible in your activities --- and not only cyclists, but expose the sport to people who want to be cyclists. A great way of doing that is with a group ride. It gives the people the forum to meet other riders and get to know other riders.
Dan Butler
The sport is a magnet. It will attract kids.
Bob Hiester
It is important to understand what these people may like, so if they are into sport it may be worth going to a match or having a round of golf.
Neil Payne
It's amazing. They get this group feeling that you get in sports that maybe some of these kids would never get. ... You know everybody's depending on you.
Lisa Lambert
Being the grand marshal of the Jackie Robinson West Little League Season Opening Parade is a real honor for me. That Little League program has begun the careers of many people in and out of the world of sports.
Dorothy Gaters
We seem to have the most depth. But girls golf is a sport where you can see a lot of unexpected improvement and a lot of improvement in scores in August.
Ann Curtis
Sports became a bonding glue when the old boys' network ruled, There are lots of other networks, like the Pink Network, which is women; the Rainbow Network, which is gays; and the Puke-Stained Network, which is working mothers.
April Masini
It's exciting. It's the birth of a new sport.
Jim Mcgraw
You get a lot of traction with the screws (on the bike wheels) It's fast, I've done 57 miles an hour on the four wheeler. It's a very dangerous sport. I saw some boy's back get all ripped up - because of the screws.
Louis Smith
It's hard to figure out what motivates people and it seems like a lot of high school sports, if you can figure out that trigger of whatever gets you going, once you get it going, you can't stop it. That's the way we are. Once we're going, you can't stop us. But if someone doesn't step it up, you see what happens.
Holly Harris
I don't want to see this sport die. But I want to see it run in a more professional manner. We have an opportunity here. We want to put a whole new face on dog racing.
Dan Adkins
We see a lot of college students. It's a huge tailgating day. It's a party. At Camden we get 50,000 people there. A lot of them don't know what's going on, but they see it and get interested, so hopefully it promotes the sport.
Robert Walsh
Particularly at this school, it's a good way to stay competitive and to keep playing sports. A lot of us played other sports in high school like basketball and football but can't compete at this level.
Jack Gaynor
He was a great boss. He liked to put a smile on the face of the sports page.
Dan Coughlin
All have become regional leaders. It's a great tie-in. It's been proven time and again that NASCAR fans are extremely loyal to the sponsors of their sport. So this makes sense from every angle.
Rick Hendrick
Just because the management and coaching is awful, where do they get off violating our First Amendment right to freedom of speech? From now on, if you go to a sporting event, sit in your seat and don't make a noise until the front office says you can.
Mike Allenbaugh
The issue of competitive balance is of course important in any sport and it is an issue for concern.
William Gaillard
We need to provide security for the entire tournament. It's an international tournament. We think we have one of the best security forces in all of sports.
Paul Archey
I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
Jamie Foxx
I am excited about the sport. I hope I never peak. I feel myself getting better and I also see I have a lot of room for improvement. Every day it's something new. The more events you do, the better athlete you become. It's great to do one event, but to do so many makes me more versatile.
Dina Emde
There's no question that demand for traditional sport utility vehicles has been affected by rising gas prices as well as significant changes in buyer demographics and product offerings.
Steve Lyons
Ashley is absolutely adamant that he will be proceeding with an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport as he remains entirely dissatisfied with the result.
Graham Shear
We are very excited with the roster of skaters that are coming. It's the first time New Jersey has been awarded an event of this caliber in the skating world. It's definitely important to the area because we hear all the time that there are not enough major sporting events in South Jersey. It's a great opportunity to have such an event.
Susan Ward
Hale Irwin is the best story in sports, period.
Rick George
It's like a major sporting event you're competing in. You're prepared and you know you're the best you can be, but you never know until it's all played out.
John Alden
It's a living, ... But it's not a big money-making business. It's almost like a sport. A good party has a lot of energy: great energy, great people. What is great people? You can't define it. It's something exciting to your eyes and to your mind.
Marc Biron
It's his team and I love being a part of it. I do what I do, which is go out every night and try to do my best. If I'm not scoring I'm doing other things. There's no egos here. All sports are like that. He's the superstar and deservedly so.
Shawn Williams
It's pretty amazing we haven't had something like this before for people who play outdoor sports, ... It's a pretty rational and reasonable concept. Anything that can help the performance out there, people are always looking for that.
Tiffeny Milbrett
I don't think (skateboarding) will ever be considered a socially acceptable sport. But it has definitely grown in popularity over the years.
Jason Burton
Margot has a very strong work ethic. She puts a lot of time and effort it in the sport and takes it very seriously.
Peter Mcnealus
I am excited to bring someone of Brian's personal and professional caliber to this new position. His commitment to this organization, to this sport, and to this community is special. As our Director of Soccer Development, Brian's responsibilities range from coaching and scouting, to competitive analysis, to serving as our bridge between the team and the front office.
John Ellinger
In season it's not uncommon for them to spend at least 40 hours a week, often 50 or 60 hours (on their sports). These guys do it willingly because they believe they can win the lottery and become a high-paid pro athlete.
Murray Sperber
I would fight anywhere I could. It certainly wasn't always under the best conditions, but it gave me the desire to move on in the sport.
Shelby Gross
Everybody is looking for something out of the NHL because we're newly being tested. I just don't feel like it's a big deal in our sport. I think our sport is clean.
Nolan Pratt
That's when the harshness of the business in this sport comes into play.
Chad Brown
Needless to say, I'm very excited about a partnership with Sporting News Radio. Sporting News Radio is a heritage brand with fantastic talent. Under its new leadership, there is no doubt it will be a tremendous success.
David Landau
It's all changing and getting better all the time. I'd like to think the red, black and white logo that goes up on the Washington Sports & Entertainment property reminds us all of those dynamics, that change and that progress.
Anthony Lewis
If the owners are playing a high-stakes game of chicken, they'd be better off playing it with anybody else in the world besides hockey players. Because of all sports, we're probably the most stubborn, pig-headed players.
Scott Walker
We're excited to be teaming with Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain to bring Crush games to our fans. We are looking forward to a long partnership that we feel will benefit both entities. In addition, we are glad to build on the AFL's already strong national relationship with FSN by working together with Fox Sports Net Rocky Mountain.
John Elway
If you have two runners of equal quality, the one who's running all the time will perform better. It hurts them in terms of running, but I never expected any more. Running is their second choice. If they had to choose, they would choose the other sport. Of course, we'd like them to be full-time runners, but they are doing well.
Bill Kahn
We knew that if this league and this sport were going to work and our investments are going to work, we are going to have to work in New York. This is the most important marketplace anywhere in the world. We knew we had to get this done.
Tim Leiweke
I got sick of being ripped off by judges. I wanted a sport where there was direct competition; where it was up to you.
Drew Neilson
I am not afraid to take tough decisions if people don't give their all for Real Madrid. I will set up an independent commission to evaluate the effort of each of the players, and their sporting and personal conduct.
Fernando Martin
The Sixth Street Bridge is the Roberto Clemente Bridge, named for a sports figure, and sports is so important in this town. The Seventh Street Bridge is the Andy Warhol Bridge, which points out how important the arts are to this area. And now, the third bridge is dedicated to science, so important to the county.
Richard Fitzgerald
We'll have finisher medals this year and a big barbeque at the race finish at the Durango Sports Club.
Matt Kelly
We might be doing pictures for the blind, ... But I suspect not. I think this is a turning point for sports television.
David Hill
We lost two sports but we did not get anyone in. This has created a lot of concerns and worries.
Sergei Bubka
Cycling continues to be an important part of OLN programming. With Lance Armstrong's retirement, fans are eagerly waiting to see who will emerge as the sport's next star. Through our coverage of the spring classics, we will be able to chronicle the drama leading up to, and including, the Tour de France.
Gavin Harvey
Not even the hiring of a celebrity like Jesse Ventura, former Governor of Minnesota, can keep the lid on a rogue sports book wrong doings.
Roberto Castiglioni
They are an icon of the '50s, ... It was considered a friendly, comfortable American sports car.
Dave Gould
When Moneymaker won in 2002, he bought into a local tournament for $39 and moved up from there. He's a millionaire now. Because of that, the sport has become something people feel they can make a living at. They have big aspirations.
Billy Marshall
Chad and Joey have opened up a whole new group of people to enjoy what I think is a pretty neat sport.
Bonnie Blair
Our big meets are at the end of the year for sure. This is kind of the way that our sport works. We get more and more ready, physically, based on our training over the course of the season.
Jason Dunn
There is an active and thriving black market in every city in the world for sporting tickets and we have to stop the abuse.
Keith Mills
He's a natural leader. He leads by example first, so all the hard work and commitment that he's made to the sport of wrestling, he's put right back into the team.
Bruce Burnett
Our attention ebbs and tides. We looked to the mainstream sports and how they stay in front of the audience.
Carey Pinkowski
Microsoft is one of the world's leading companies and is notoriously selective over which organizations it chooses to partner, ... resurrect the stadium as the world's leading sports and entertainment venue.
Michael Cunnah
As far as playoffs, I don't think there's a better sport than playoff hockey. It's do or die. Nothing else matters but the 60 minutes you're out there. If you don't get it done that time you've got 60 more minutes the next night.
Rod Branch
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