Sports Quotes

"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."

"The only way to prove that you're a good sport is to lose."

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second."

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging."

"To me, it doesn't matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win."

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

"Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story."

"Fans don't boo nobodies."

"Life is about timing."

"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."

"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."

"I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match."

"You can't win unless you learn how to lose."

"Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple."

"Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts."

"God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure."

"Winners never quit and quitters never win."

"The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime."

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."

"Success is where preparation and opportunity meet."

"Every day is a new opportunity. You can build on yesterday's success or put its failures behind and start over again. That's the way life is, with a new game every day, and that's the way baseball is."

"You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time."

"You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get."

"If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead."

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be."

"You don't play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball."

"Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose."

"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."

"What other people may find in poetry or art museums, I find in the flight of a good drive."

"When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again."

"To find a man's true character, play golf with him."

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."

"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

"One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it."

"Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer."

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."

"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."

"Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play."

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."