5,260 Quotes About Sports

I feel greatly honored to have a ballpark named after me, especially since I've been thrown out of so many.

Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Without losers, where would the winners be?

Whenever I decided to release a guy, I always had his room searched first for a gun. You couldn't take any chances with some of them birds.

I want to see more girls coming in to the sport. There were actually a lot in Canada when I was riding there, but we can let girls know that they can be jockeys. And if they can't be jockeys, why can't they be owners or trainers? We need to invite girls in.

Being an art buyer these days is comprehensively and indisputably vulgar. It is the sport of the Eurotrashy, Hedge-fundy, Hamptonites; of trendy oligarchs and oiligarchs; and of art dealers with masturbatory levels of self-regard.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

If I was the Jackie Robinson of golf, I sure didn't do a very good job of it. Jackie was followed by hundreds of great black ballplayers who have transformed their sport... But there are hardly any black kids coming up through the ranks of golf today.