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A. Bartlett Giamatti It breaks your heart. It is designed to break yo...
Al Boliska Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards...
Al McGuire I don't know why people question the academic tr...
Ambrose Bierce Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality an...
Anna Kournikova I have lost this battle but I will win the war....
Arnold Palmer What other people may find in poetry or art muse...
Barry Switzer Some people are born on third base and go throug...
Ben Hogan Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposi...
Bernie Lincicome The hardest thing to believe about The Fan is no...
Bill Veeck Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a v...
Billie Jean King Champions keep playing until they get it right....
Billie Jean King Tennis is a perfect combination of violent actio...
Billy Graham The only time my prayers are never answered is o...
Blaise Pascal Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even...
Bob Hope If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, i...
Bob Lemon The two most important things in life are good f...
Bob Verdi The bell that tolls for all in boxing belongs to...
Bob Verdi What's unfortunate about buying a pitcher for $1...
Bobby Knight You don't play against opponents, you play again...
Bobby Unser Success is where preparation and opportunity mee...
Buddy Marucci I couldn't see the ball come off the club for th...
Buddy Marucci Tiger is the best athlete that this level of gol...
Carl Lewis Life is about timing....
Carl Lewis My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty...
Casey Stengel Most ball games are lost, not won....
Charles Barkley If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a...
Charles Barkley My family got all over me because they said Bush...
Charles Barkley These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They...
Charles Barkley You know it's going to hell when the best rapper...
Charles Spalding There was endless action - not just football, bu...
Charlie Lau There are two theories on hitting the knucklebal...
Chris Evert Lloyd If you can react the same way to winning and los...
Dale Earnhardt You win some, lose some, and wreck some....
Dan Duva Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter?...
Dan Quayle Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing tha...
Dave Barry Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down t...
Dean Martin If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt....
Don Carter One advantage of golf over bowling is that you n...
Doug Collins Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and...
Earl Warren I always turn to the sports pages first, which r...
Erma Bombeck Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prep...
Ernest Hemingway The game of golf would lose a great deal if croq...
Ernie Banks The only way to prove that you're a good sport i...
Frank Gifford Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are ...
Gary McCord He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to ...
Gary McCord He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks...
Gary McCord He's in the mold of a Tom Watson, in that he'll ...
Gary Player The first time I ever saw Arnold Palmer, I said,...
George Bernard Shaw Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of...
George Bernard Shaw It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating...
George Brett If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is ...
George Deukmejian The difference in golf and government is that in...
George F. Will Scholars concede but cannot explain the amazing ...
George Orwell Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. ...
Gerald R. Ford I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Gree...
Gerald R. Ford I know I am getting better at golf because I am ...
Gilbert K. Chesterton I regard golf as an expensive way of playing mar...
Gordie Howe All hockey players are bilingual. They know Engl...
Grantland Rice Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more...
Greg LeMond Perhaps the single most important element in mas...
Greg LeMond You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the ris...
Greg Norman What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He...
Hank Aaron My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I ...
Hank Aaron The triple is the most exciting play in baseball...
Harry Caray You know they're not going to lose 162 consecuti...
Harry Vardon Don't play too much golf. Two rounds a day are p...
Henry David Thoreau Many men go fishing all of their lives without k...
Herbert Hoover Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great ...
Heywood Broun Sports do not build character. They reveal it....
Hugo L. Black When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man i...
Hunter S. Thompson When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro....
Jack Benny Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful pa...
Jack Lemmon If you think it's hard to meet new people, try p...
Jack Nicklaus He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swin...
Jack Nicklaus He's going to be around a long, long time, if hi...
Jack Nicklaus There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He...
Jesse Owens A lifetime of training for just ten seconds....
Jesse Ventura Wrestling is ballet with violence....
Jim Bishop Golf is played by twenty million mature American...
Jim Bouton Baseball players are smarter than football playe...
Jim Bouton You spend a good piece of your life gripping a b...
Jim Murray Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical i...
Jimmy Carter New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out...
Jimmy DeMaret Golf and sex are the only things you can enjoy w...
Joe Adcock Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is li...
Joe E. Lewis I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than t...
Joe Garagiola Baseball is drama with an endless run and an eve...
Joe Garagiola I went through baseball as "a player to be named...
Joe Garagiola Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he h...
Joe Garagiola One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bo...
Joe Kapp Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a swea...
Joe Theisman Nobody in the game of football should be called ...
John Leonard Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tens...
John Madden The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules the...
John McEnroe I'll let the racket do the talking....
John Updike Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. J...
Joseph Chilton Pearce Play is the only way the highest intelligence of...
Joyce Carol Oates Boxing has become America's tragic theater....
Juan Antonio Samaranch Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture....
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar You can't win unless you learn how to lose. ...
Katarina Witt When I go out on the ice, I just think about my ...
Ken Venturi You can't be compared to a Hogan or a Nicklaus u...
Lee Trevino You can make a lot of money in this game. Just a...
Mark Twain Golf is a good walk spoiled....
Mark Twain It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf...
Martin Mull The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls o...
Michael Jordan As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Her...
Michael Jordan I can accept failure, but I can't accept not try...
Michael Jordan I never looked at the consequences of missing a ...
Michael Jordan I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I...
Michael Jordan If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadb...
Michael Jordan Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game....
Mike Singletary Do you know what my favorite part of the game is...
Mike Tyson I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lenno...
Muhammad Ali I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging l...
Muhammad Ali It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves p...
Nick Faldo He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively ...
Nick Price He's got everything. He' not a great player yet ...
Nick Price Overall the fundamentals seem to be there and he...
Norm Cash Pro-rated at 500 at-bats per year, my 1,081 stri...
Norman Augustine Bulls do not win bull fights. People do....
Paul Coffey Nobody's a natural. You work hard to get good an...
Pete Incaviglia People think baseball players make $3 million an...
Pete Rose It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got t...
Peter Ueberroth Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, o...
Peter Ueberroth Other sports play once a week but this sport is ...
Peter Ueberroth The integrity of the game is everything....
Phil Jackson I gave it my body and mind, but I have kept my s...
Phil Jackson If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the...
Red Auerbach Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons...
Reggie Jackson Fans don't boo nobodies....
Robert Frost I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down....
Robert Graves Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all the...
Robert Lynd It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a...
Rodney Dangerfield I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey ...
Roger Kahn A major league baseball team is a collection of ...
Roger Kahn Basketball, hockey and track meets are action he...
Roger Kahn Boxing is smoky halls and kidneys battered until...
Roger Kahn Football is violence and cold weather and sex an...
Roger Kahn Horse racing is animated roulette....
Roger Kahn I was showing early symptoms of becoming a profe...
Roger Kahn Tennis and golf are best played, not watched....
Rogers Hornsby I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I ...
Sam Snead If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the ...
Satchel Paige Don't look back. Something might be gaining on y...
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower Victory goes to the player who makes the next to...
Shaquille O'Neal I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, ...
Shaquille O'Neal If you got the game, you got the game. That's wh...
Steve Garvey The difference between the old ballplayer and th...
Ted Williams Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a m...
Tiger Woods Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a...
Tiger Woods My dad has always taught me these words: care an...
Tom Landry Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it's s...
Tug McGraw I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf....
Vince Lombardi If winning isn't everything, why do they keep sc...
Vince Lombardi We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time...
Vince Lombardi Winners never quit and quitters never win....
Vince Lombardi Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing....
Vince Lombardi Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is...
Vince Lombardi Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing....
Walt Whitman I see great things in baseball. It's our game - ...
Warren Spahn Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing....
Wayne Gretzky A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A ...
Wayne Gretzky You miss 100% of the shots you never take....
Will Rogers I guess there is nothing that will get your mind...
William A. Ward Adversity causes some men to break; others to br...
William James Most people never run far enough on their first ...
William Wordsworth Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idle...
Wilt Chamberlain Nobody roots for Goliath....
Yogi Berra Half the lies they tell about me aren't true....
Yogi Berra You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you....

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