Sports Quotes
Sports constantly make demands on the participant for top performance, and they develop integrity, self-reliance and initiative. They teach you a lot about working in groups, without being unduly submerged in the group.
Byron R. White
They read their sports pages, know their statistics and either root like hell or boo our butts off. I love it. Give me vocal fans, pro or con, over the tourist types who show up in Houston or Montreal and just sit there.
Mike Schmidt
Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?
George Denis Patrick Carlin
Several professional athletes have wrongly taught many young Americans by example that the only way to succeed in sports is to take steroids.
Jim Sensenbrenner
Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you still don't know the ending.
Neil Simon
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence.
Lewis H Lapham
Golf isn't like other sports where you can take a player out if he's having a bad day. You have to play the whole game
Phil Blackmar
Drugs are very much a part of professional sports today, but when you think about it, golf is the only sport where the players aren't penalized for being on grass
Bob Hope
Sports are positively essential. It is healthy to engage in sports, they are beautiful and liberal, liberal in the sense that nothing serves quite as well to integrate social classes, etc., than street or public games.
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The five S's of sports training are: stamina, speed, strength, skill, and spirit; but the greatest of these is spirit.
Ken Doherty
Sports is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
John Wooden
Golf is the cruelest of sports. Like life, it's unfair. It's a harlot. A trollop. It leads you on. It never lives up to its promises.... It's a boulevard of broken dreams. It plays with men. And runs off with the butcher.
Jim Murray
