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When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.
- Lasorda, Tommy
Sports Motivational Quotes



Best Quotes about Sports

1.
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see -- not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness.
Lapham, Lewis H.

2.
Sports should always be fun.
Mann, Charles

3.
For when the One Great Scorer comes To write against your name, He marks-not that you won or lost- But how you played the game.
Grantland Rice

4.
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
Yogi Berra

5.
Two things only the people anxiously desire, bread and the circus games.
Juvenal, (Decimus Junius Juvenalis)

6.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky

7.
Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
Ouida

8.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Phyllis Diller

9.
Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.
Anthony Starr

10.
In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever.
Montana, Joe

11.
So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.
Epictetus

12.
I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.
Stoppard, Tom

13.
Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.
George F. Will

14.
Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Hemingway, Ernest

15.
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare

16.
For people to judge a man's worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential goings on that it really is...
Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess

17.
The man loves danger and sport. That is why he loves woman, the most dangerous of all sports.
Nietzsche, Friedrich

18.
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense.
Mumford, Lewis

19.
There is a syndrome in sports called paralysis by analysis.
Ashe, Arthur

20.
It's not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.
John Wooden

21.
Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

22.
I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.
Rodney Dangerfield

23.
When we lose, I eat. When we win, I eat. I also eat when we're rained out.
Lasorda, Tommy

24.
For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.
Becker, Ernest

25.
Do you know what my favorite part of the game is? The opportunity to play.
Singletary, Mike

26.
Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.
Bill Shankly

27.
Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.
Willie Shoemaker

28.
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun

29.
Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.
Erma Bombeck

30.
I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said,well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
Valvano, Jim

31.
There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.
Barthes, Roland

32.
In sport, mental imagery is used primarily to help you get the best out of yourself in training and competition. The developing athletes who make the fastest progress and those who ultimately become their best make extensive use of mental imagery. They use it daily as a means of directing what will happen in training, and as a way of pre-experiencing their best competition performances.
Orlick, Terry

33.
The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours.
Fleming, Peggy

34.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
Orwell, George

35.
Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk.


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