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Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.
Author: Bill Peterson
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He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings.
(on his coach, John Jenkins, 1991)
Author: Torrin Polk
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My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.
(explaining to Coach Jim Valvano why he appeared nervous at practice, 1982)
Author: Chuck Nevitt
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Tom.
(New coach of the NBA's Houston Rockets, when asked how he pronounced his name, 1966)
Author: Tom Nissalke
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I'll always be Number 1 to myself.
Author: Moses Malone
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He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota, 1996.)
Author: Lou Duva
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This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.
Author: Ted Walsh
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He's a guy who gets up at six o'clock in the morning regardless of what time it is.
(on the spartan training regimen of heavyweight Andrew Golota)
Author: Lou Duva
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Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
Author: Bill Bradley
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You must sacrifice, train, do everything possible to put yourself in a position to win. But if you consider second or third a failure, I feel sorry for you.
Author: Joe Falcon
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You only have to bat a thousand two things; flying and heart transplants. Everything else you can go 4 for five.
Author: Beano Cook
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There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
Author: Roland Barthes
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If God wanted women to understand men, football would never have been created.
Author: Roger Simon
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The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.
Author: Dean Martin
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I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Author: Shaquille O'neal
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It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.
Author: Mark Twain
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Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Author: Woodrow Wilson
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Soccer players can do it for 90 minutes in all positions!
Author: Daniel R. Evans
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I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf.
(When asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf)
Author: Tug Mcgraw
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I am the most loyal player money can buy.
(Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels)
Author: Don Sutton
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If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again
Author: Terry Venables
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We can't win at home. We can't win on the road. As general manager, I just can't figure out where else to play.
Author: Pat Williams
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Always root for the winner. That way you won't be disappointed.
Author: Tug Mcgraw
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People think we make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.
Author: Pete Incaviglia
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Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Author: Joe Theismann
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The racecourse is as level as a billiard ball
Author: John Francombe
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My sister's expecting a baby and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.
Author: Chuck Nevitt
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A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Author: Ara Parasheghian
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Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Author: Oliver Goldsmith
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I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
Author: Fred A. Allen
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I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.
Author: Evelyn Ashford
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Author: Vince Lombardi
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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.
Author: George Orwell
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Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious.
Author: Charles Shackleford
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This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria....I saw her snatch this morning and it was amazing.
Author: Pat Glenn
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We were the quintessence of athletic atrocity.
(after a game his team lost to the New York Nets)
Author: Mike Newlin
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Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Author: Vince Lombardi
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They shouldn't throw at me. I'm the father of five or six kids.
Author: Tito Fuentes
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I'm a 4-wheel-drive pickup type of guy. So is my wife.
Author: Mike Greenwell
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Rapport? You mean like, 'You run as fast as you can, and I'll throw it as far as I can'?
(when asked about his rapport with wide receiver Jerry Rice)
Author: Jeff Kemp
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He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'
(on his 11-year-old son's reaction after he took the job with the Boilermakers)
Author: Jim Colletto
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I told him, 'Son, what is it with you: Is it ignorance or apathy?'
He said, 'Coach, I don't know and I don't care.'
(on a former player)
Author: Frank Layden
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What it comes down to is that anybody can win with the best horse. What makes you good is if you can take the second or third-best horse and win.
Author: Vicky Aragon
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The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.
Author: Mrs. Jamieson
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Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.
Author: Tom Landry
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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.
Author: Tiger Woods
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I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.
Author: Jim Finks
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I really lack the words to compliment myself today.
Author: Alberto Tomba
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But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
(telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)
Author: Steve Spurrier
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