Top Sports Quotes

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

Sports is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.

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

He spends so much time in the sand trap you'd think he was in the cast of Baywatcb.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

But sports carried me away from being in a gang, or being associated with drugs. Sports was my way out.

Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.

Martial Arts does not teach you how to fight, it teaches you why not to.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.

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

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a househo...

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he's obviously got a very mature head on his shoulders. He's got a kind of presence.

Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.

We players are as normal human beings as anyone else, and we also have the right to live a normal life. I don't understand why people talk so much about the way we dress up, how we walk, what we eat,...

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

Even if I did have, you know, a 'Sports Illustrated' body, I'd still wear elegant clothes.