Sports Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

277 Sports Quotes
“He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll hit the ball in the trees and undaunted go it there, flail it out and make something out of it.”
Gary Mccord Quotes
“I'll let the racket do the talking.”
John McEnroe Quotes
“Don't park in the spaces marked, "Reserved for Umpires.".”
John Mcsherry Quotes
“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.”
Jim Murray Quotes
“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.”
Jack Nicklaus Quotes
“What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive.”
Arnold Palmer Quotes
“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
Joseph Chilton Pearce Quotes
“Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.”
Grantland Rice Quotes
“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.”
Paul Rodriguez Quotes
“Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture.”
Juan Antonio Samaranch Quotes
“Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.”
Mike Singletary Quotes
“If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.”
Sam Snead Quotes
“There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.”
Charles Spalding Quotes
“Victory goes to the player who makes the next to last mistake.”
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Quotes
“You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work.”
Lee Trevino Quotes
“Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.”
Bill Veeck Quotes
“Wrestling is ballet with violence.”
Jesse Ventura Quotes
“The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to a cash register.”
Bob Verdi Quotes
“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.”
William A. Ward Quotes
“Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand.”
Wes Westrum Quotes
“Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes.”
Bob Wilkerson Quotes
“Durability is part of what makes a great athlete.”
Bill Russell Quotes
“The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.”
Arie de Geus Quotes
“Men often compete with one another until the day they die; comradeship consists of rubbing shoulders jocularly with a competitor.”
Edward Hoagland Quotes
“The biggest things are often the easiest to do because there is so little competition.”
William Van Horne Quotes