Sports Quotes And Sayings From Sportsmen, Coaches, And Others

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Sports Quotes And Sayings From Sportsmen, Coaches, And Others


“When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.”
– Eric Cantona

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.”
– Eric Liddell

“In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best.”
– Eric Liddell

“If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.”
– Erma Bombeck

“The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.”
– Ernie Banks

“Sports bars are also a great place for guys to meet other guys–either for sex or for wrestling, whichever feels more right.”
– Eugene Mirman, The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life

“Wii Sports: All the frustration of real sports with out the physical exercise.”
– Felix Harneis

“Gray skies are just clouds passing over.”
– Frank Gifford

“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.”
– Frank Gifford

“The strong one doesn’t win, the one that wins is strong.”
– Franz Beckenbauer

“He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.”
– Gary McCord

“He’s got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can’t wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.”
– Gary McCord

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.”
George Bernard Shaw

“If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.”
– George Brett

“I read that Monica Seles got stabbed. And although I have nothing against Monica Seles, I’m glad somebody in sports got stabbed. I like the idea of it; it’s good entertainment. If we’re lucky, it’ll spread through sports. And show business, too! Wouldn’t you like to see a guy jump up on stage and stab some famous singer? Especially a real shitty pop singer? Maybe they’ll even start stabbing comedians. Fuck it, I’m ready! I never perform without my can of mace. I have a switchblade knife, too. I’ll cut your eye out and go right on telling jokes.”
– George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“Sports fans eat shit.”
– George Carlin, Brain Droppings

“The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can’t improve your lie.”
– George Deukmejian

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
– George Lincoln Rockwell

“Revolution is a spectators sport. The majority will sit in the stands and watch the factions fight. At the end they will choose side with the team that is winning.”
– George Lincoln Rockwell

“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.”
– George Orwell

“I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.”
– Gerald R. Ford

“I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.”
– Gerald R. Ford

“My swag was phenomenal.”
– Gilbert Arenas

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.”
– Gilbert K. Chesterton

“All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.”
– Gordie Howe

“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.”
– Grantland Rice

“I didn’t cry when they buried my father – I wouldn’t let myself. I didn’t cry when they buried my sister. On Thursday night, with my family asleep upstairs, my eyes filled as Agassi and Marcos Baghdatis played out the fifth set of their moving second-round match.”
– Greg Garber

“Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.”
– Greg LeMond

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