Sports Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

277 Sports Quotes
“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)”
Jim Colletto Quotes
“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)”
Frank Layden Quotes
“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.”
Vicky Aragon Quotes
“The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself.”
Mrs. Jamieson Quotes
“Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's so incredible, it's unbelievable.”
Tom Landry Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.”
Jim Finks Quotes
“I really lack the words to compliment myself today.”
Alberto Tomba Quotes
“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)”
Steve Spurrier Quotes
“I'm not an athlete. I'm a professional baseball player.”
John Kruk Quotes
“You mean in the state? (when asked if he felt his team should be ranked in the Top Twenty this season)”
Abe Lemons Quotes
“Competitions are for horse, not artist.”
Bela Bartok Quotes
“It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
Queen Elizabeth Quotes
“You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.”
Yogi Berra Quotes
“My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: "Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.".”
Carl Lewis Quotes
“Raise the urinals. (on how management could keep the Braves on their toes)”
Darrel Chaney Quotes
“Sometimes they write what I say and not what I mean. (on sportswriters)”
Pedro Guerrero Quotes
“I'm going to graduate on time, no matter how long it takes.”
College Senior Quotes
“It's basically the same, just darker. (on racing Saturday nights as opposed to Sunday afternoons, 1991)”
Alan Kulwicki Quotes
“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.”
Hank Aaron Quotes
“I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is that a big enough name for you ?' (White Sox owner)”
Eddie Eichorn Quotes
“Is fuel efficiency really what we need most desperately? I say what we really need is a car that can be shot when it breaks down.”
George Carlin Quotes
“You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.”
Bobby Knight Quotes
“I was going to write myself in, but I was afraid I'd get shot. (on his decision not to vote)”
Lincoln Kennedy Quotes
“Ah, isn't that nice, the wife of the Cambridge president is kissing the cox of the Oxford crew.”
Harry Carpenter Quotes