5,260 Quotes About Sports

All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.

There is winning and there is misery.

You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Billy Beane was a guy who had been devalued by the sport as a player and now is working as a GM for a small-market team.There is such a gulf in what these teams have to spend on talent [that] they can never play equally - they can never have a true competition.

I'd like to design something like a city or a museum. I want to do something hands on rather than just play golf which is the sport of the religious right.

Hard work alone won't guarantee success, but without hard work, I'll guarantee you won't have success.

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.