It is not how big you are, it's how big you play.
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Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.
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Pain is nothing compared to what it feels like to quit.
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The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
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Losers quit when they're tired. Winners quit when they've won.
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You're playing worse every day and right now you're playing like the middle of next week.
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When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body. Bill Lee Quotes

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.
Blaise Pascal Quotes

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
Bo Jackson Quotes

I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bob Hope Quotes

The key is not the "will to win" - everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.
Bobby Knight Quotes

Winning isn't overrated - it's your acceptance of being rated.
Carrie Latet Quotes

Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel Quotes

I don't believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models.... It's not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn't like it, they said, "Don't let the door hit you in the ass on your way out." Parents have to take better control.
Charles Barkley Quotes

These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it.
Charles Barkley Quotes

If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot.
Dean Smith Quotes

If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it.
Dick Allen Quotes

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.
Don Drysdale Quotes

People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that.
Don Murray Quotes

All sports are games of inches.
Dick Ritger Quotes

Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans.
Dick Young Quotes

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game. Duffy Daugherty Quotes

I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures.
Earl Warren Quotes

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
Eddie Sha Quotes

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek Quotes

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential.
George A. Sheehan Quotes

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
George Bernard Shaw Quotes

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.
George Brett Quotes

There's more to boxing than hitting. There's not getting hit, for instance.
George Foreman Quotes
American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity.
Gordie Howe Quotes

Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
Gene Mauch Quotes

Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game.
George Mikes Quotes

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... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
George Orwell Quotes

If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such.
Homer Simpson Quotes

Sports is human life in microcosm.
Howard Cosell Quotes
Sport is a preserver of health.
Hippocrates Quotes

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H.L. Mencken Quotes

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Jack Handey Quotes

There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.
James Reston Quotes

October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football.
Jason Love Quotes

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
Jay Leno Quotes

Losing is the great American sin.
Jerome Holtzman Quotes

The more I practice, the luckier I get.
Jerry Barber Quotes

It's like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows.
Joe Kinnear Quotes

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.
John Donne Quotes

We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.
John F. Kennedy Quotes

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.
John Madden Quotes

Every day you guys look worse and worse. And today you played like tomorrow.
John Mariucci Quotes

Squash is boxing with racquets.
Jonah Barrington Quotes

I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees.
Jonathan Davies Quotes

Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding.
John Hopkins Quotes

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible.
J.J. Bentley Quotes

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go. Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers.
Katharine Whitehorn Quotes

As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel.
Kevin Keegan Quotes

[T]he finish line is sometimes merely the symbol of victory. All sorts of personal triumphs take place before that point, and the outcome of the race may actually be decided long before the end.
Laurence Malone Quotes

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.
Lewis H. Lapham Quotes

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing -
The one is winning, and the other losing.
Lord Byron Quotes

Cricket - a game which the English, not being a spiritual people, have invented in order to give themselves some conception of eternity.
Lord Mancroft Quotes

Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience.
Luke Neely Quotes

Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can't when they finish.
Martin H. Fischer Quotes
To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Mary Russell Mitford Quotes

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter.
Michael Ventre Quotes

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.
Mike Penner Quotes

The umpireat cricket is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order.
Neville Cardus Quotes

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
Nick Hornby Quotes

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
Nick Seitz Quotes

A tough day at the office is even tougher when your office contains spectator seating.
Nik Posa Quotes

We can't win at home and we can't win on the road. My problem as general manager is I can't think of another place to play.
Pat Williams Quotes

With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions.
Pete Rose Quotes

Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph.
Peter Dunne Quotes

If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass.
Randall Cobb Quotes

The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell.
Red Smith Quotes

Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
Rita Mae Brown Quotes

Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
Rita Rudner Quotes

I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives.
Rob Lee Quotes
It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.
Robert Lynd Quotes

The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel.
Robert Morley Quotes

Cricket is baseball on valium.
Robin Williams Quotes

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
Robin Williams Quotes
Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about.
Rodney Marsh Quotes
All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy - the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team.
Rodney Marsh Quotes

Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes.
Roger Angell Quotes

The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
Roger Bannister Quotes

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark.
Roland Barthes Quotes

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium.
Ron Bolton Quotes

If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is.
R.G. Briscow Quotes

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles.
Sam Snead Quotes

It's not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.
Sandy Lyle Quotes

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organize play, the spirit of play.
Simon Gray Quotes

Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
Sparky Anderson Quotes

The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.
Steve Garvey Quotes

I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn't have to go so fast.
Steven Wright Quotes

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
Sylvester Stallone Quotes

The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins.
Tom Canterbury Quotes

I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf.
Tug McGraw Quotes

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi Quotes

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
Vin Scully Quotes

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
Vince Lombardi Quotes

A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word "I" when you're in a group makes things complicated.
Wanderley Luxemburgo Quotes
 

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