5,260 Quotes About Sports

...the incontestable truth is that America has been built up by optimists, not by pessimists, but by men possessing courage, confidence in the nation's destiny, by men willing to adventure, to shoulder risks terrifying to the timid.

There's no gain, without pain.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

I don't think baseball owes colored people anything. I don't think colored people owe baseball anything, either.