Sports Quotes

“Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.”
― Babe Ruth

“Winning isn't everything--but wanting to win is.”
― Vince Lombardi

“The strength of the team is each individual member. The strength of each member is the team.”
― Phil Jackson

“The miracle isn't that I finished. The miracle is that I had the courage to start.”
― John Bingham, No Need for Speed: A Beginner's Guide to the Joy of Running

“The score never interested me, only the game.”
― Mae West

“Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game”
― Babe Ruth

“The problem with winter sports is that -- follow me closely here -- they generally take place in winter.”
― Dave Barry

“Running isn't a sport for pretty boys...It's about the sweat in your hair and the blisters on your feet. Its the frozen spit on your chin and the nausea in your gut. It's about throbbing calves and cramps at midnight that are strong enough to wake the dead. It's about getting out the door and running when the rest of the world is only dreaming about having the passion that you need to live each and every day with. It's about being on a lonely road and running like a champion even when there's not a single soul in sight to cheer you on. Running is all about having the desire to train and persevere until every fiber in your legs, mind, and heart is turned to steel. And when you've finally forged hard enough, you will have become the best runner you can be. And that's all that you can ask for.”
― Paul Maurer, The Gift - A Runner's Story

“It ain't over 'til it's over.”
― Yogi Berra

“Hello, Max," he said quietly, searching my face. "How do you feel?"

Which was a ten on the "imbecilic question" scale of one to ten.

Why, I feel fine, Jeb, "I said brightly." How about you? "

Any nausea? Headache? "

Yep. And it's standing here talking to me.”
― James Patterson

“I've never lost a game. I just ran out of time.”
― Michael Jordan

“I feel the need to endanger myself every so often.”
― Tim Daly

“Many people say I'm the best women's soccer player in the world. I don't think so. And because of that, someday I just might be.”
― Mia Hamm

“Some seek the comfort of their therapist's office, other head to the corner pub and dive into a pint, but I chose running as my therapy.”
― Dean Karnazes, Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner

“Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?”
― Dave Barry

“Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.”
― Vince Lombardi

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

“I love the Olympics, because they enable people from all over the world to come together and--regardless of their political or cultural differences--accuse each other of cheating.”
― Dave Barry, Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, But Some Actual Journalism!

“When I was in high school I asked myself at one point:" Why do I care if my high school's team wins the football game? I don't know anybody on the team, they have nothing to do with me... why am I here and applaud? It does not make any sense. "But the point is, it does make sense: It's a way of building up irrational attitudes of submission to authority and group cohesion behind leadership elements. In fact it's training in irrational jingoism. That's also a feature of competitive sports.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
― William Arthur Ward

“football is like life - it requires perserverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.”
― vince lombardi

“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.”
― Dave Barry

“I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.”
― Rodney Dangerfield

“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

“[On writing:]" There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.' "

(One On 1,interview with Budd Mishkin;NY1,March 25, 2007.)”
― David Halberstam, Everything They Had: Sports Writing

“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

“A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.”
― Wayne Gretzky

“Sports is to war as pornography is to sex.”
― Jonathan Haidt

“With a hint of good judgment, to fear nothing, not failure or suffering or even death, indicates that you value life the most. You live to the extreme; you push limits; you spend your time building legacies. Those do not die.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
― Billie Jean King