5,260 Quotes About Sports

He’s letting me see the real him, something he doesn’t allow a lot of people to see.

Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.

My heart starts to pound as he gets closer and closer to the stands, never taking his eyes off me.

The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called “patriotism” and “love of sport.

We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.

Every name looks fashionable when it's etched in silver. (Stanley Cup)

When you're a sportswriter, you learn how to use your imagination and to flex your literary muscle, because it's the same game played over and over again. There's nothing unique or marvelous. It's not an earthquake, or a weird mass murder. It's just the same old game played over and over, and you have to bring out the personalities. You have to drag them kicking and screaming out into the light of day, or you're not a good sportswriter.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I’m frozen in place as his eyes rake over me.