5,260 Quotes About Sports

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

There's something about sports. You can be setting fire to cats and burying them in your backyard, but as long as you're playing team sports, people think you're okay.

Whereas fanatic is usually a pejorative word, a Fan is someone who has roots somewhere.

I've fallen in love with baseball.

Somebody once asked me if I ever went up to the plate trying to hit a home run. I said "sure, every time".

The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.

That's why he was here, to surrender himself to longing, to listen to his host recite the anecdotal texts, all the passed-down stories of bonehead plays and swirling brawls, the pitching duels that carried into twilight, stories that Marvin had been collecting for half a century--the deep eros of memory that separates baseball from other sports.

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.