5,260 Quotes About Sports

Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

The activity which seems unthinkable today can become your warm-up in the future!

Instead of playing little league baseball on weekends, I usually was sitting in my neighborhood movie theatre, munching on popcorn.

Nick Murray has been a Mets fan all his life. Before that, he rooted for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

In America, applause is won only by physical exertion.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business, and too much of a business to be called a sport.

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it—you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

Sports teach us the value of facing yourself and others honestly. You can only grow if you let go of denial and embrace what is real and true.