5,260 Quotes About Sports

In love as in sport, the amateur status must be strictly maintained.

Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.

For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...

I quit school in the sixth grade because of pneumonia. Not because I had it, but because I couldn't spell it.

It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.

Cross Country is like poker. You have to be holding five good cards all the time.

If you approach Billy Martin right, he's Okay. I avoid him altogether.

I grew up on a farm and I always learned when you work you go forward, you don't stop and say, well, I'll take a break. You always go forward and get the job done.

We must have had 99 per cent of the match. It was the other three per cent that cost us.