Sports Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

277 Sports Quotes
“The opponents and I are really one. My strength and skills only half of the equation. The other half is theirs. An opponent is someone whose strength joined to yours creates a certain result.”
Sadaharu Oh Quotes
“Training is all-encompassing and should be related to everything a unit does, or can have happen to it.”
Arthur Collins Quotes
“Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.”
Joe Garagiola Quotes
“Go play golf. Go to the golf course. Hit the ball. Find the ball. Repeat until the ball is in the hole. Have fun. The end.”
Chuck Hogan Quotes
“Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until they bleed.”
Roger Kahn Quotes
“What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.”
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.”
Barry Switzer Quotes
“The integrity of the game is everything.”
Peter Ueberroth Quotes
“I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father”
Greg Norman Quotes
“The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical”
Murray Walker Quotes
“There are only two kinds of coaches -- those who have been fired, and those who will be fired.”
Ken Loeffler Quotes
“How can we hope to remain economically competitive in a world in which... 90% of Dutch high-school students take advanced math courses and 100% of teachers in Germany have double majors, while the best we can say about our pocket of excellence is that 75% of [American] students have learned to critique tactfully?.”
Barbara J. Alexander Quotes
“To free the mind from the habit of competition, we must see in detail the process by which the mind is ensnared by competition.”
Marguerite Beecher Quotes
“Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.”
Willard Beecher Quotes
“Show me a guy who is afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.”
Lou Brock Quotes
“Somebody will always break your records. It is how you live that counts.”
Earl Campbell Quotes
“Thou shalt not covet; but tradition approves all forms of competition.”
Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes
“You get out in front -- you stay out in front.”
A. J. Foyt Quotes
“Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.”
Gladiator's Salute Quotes
“You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, and rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave -- win or lose.”
Gordie Howe Quotes
“Athletes have studied how to leap and how to survive the leap some of the time and return to the ground. They don't always do it well. But they are our philosophers of actual moments and the body and soul in them, and of our maneuvers in our emergencies and longings.”
Harold Brodkey Quotes
“Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.”
James B. Connant Quotes
“The greatest efforts in sports came when the mind is as still as a glass lake.”
Timothy Gallwey Quotes
“The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.”
Peggy Fleming Quotes
“Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society: violence punctuated by committee meetings.”
Bern Williams Quotes