Sprots Quotes:

  • Your opponent, in the end, is never really the player on the other side of the net, or the swimmer in the next lane, or the team on the other side of the field, or even the bar you must high-jump. Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination.
    --Grace Lichtenstein American Writer & Editor
  • Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
    --Rita Rudner
  • If you can't accept losing, you can't win.
    --Vince Lombardi
  • Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
    --Vince Lombardi
  • If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base
    --Dave Barry
  • Sports Do Not Build Character...They Reveal It
    --John Wooden
  • All right Mister, let me tell you what winning means you're willing to go longer, work harder, give more than anyone else.
    --Vince Lombardi
  • Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
    --Mahatma Gandhi
  • The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.
    --Vince Lombardi (1913-1970) US football coach
  • Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation of Americans. It's the true red menace.
    --Art Jones Film director who directed Dodgeball, a mock-documentary criticizing the game.
  • You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.
    --Albert Einstein
  • I was told over and over again that I would never be successful, that I was not going to be competitive and the technique was simply not going to work. All I could do was shrug and say 'We'll just have to see'.
    --Dick Fosbury won an Olympic gold medal at the 1968 Mexico City Games after he invented a revolutionary high-jump technique.
  • Oh, somewhere in this favoured land the sun is shining bright; The band is playing somewhere; and somewhere hearts are light; And somewhere men are laughing; and little children shout; But there is no joy in Mudville- great Casey has struck out.
    --Ernest Lawrence Thayer Casey at the Bat
  • To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography and the dancers hit each other.
    --Jack Handy Deep Thoughts
  • I never criticize a player until they are first convinced of my unconditional confidence in their abilities.
    --John Robinson
  • You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.
    --Joe DiMaggio, on Opening Day
  • Slump ? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hittin.
    --Yogi Berra
  • We're supposed to be perfect our first day on the job and then show constant improvement.
    --Ed Vargo, major league baseball umpire
  • If you don't make a total commitment to whatever you're doing, then you start looking to bail out the first time the boat starts leaking. It's tough enough getting that boat to shore with everybody rowing, let alone when a guy stands up and starts putting his jacket on.
    --Lou Holtz, College football coach College football coach
  • Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical
    --Yogi Berra
  • The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
    --Jutice Earl Warren
  • Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
    --Joe Theismann
  • Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
    --George Will
  • All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
    --Lou Holtz, former Notre Dame football coach
  • If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
    --Erma Bombeck
  • Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalised for too many players on the field
    --Jim Boulton
  • Most football teams are temperamental.That's 90% temper and 10% mental.
    --Doug Plank
  • One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
    --Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, NBA Center
  • If a team is to reach its potential, each player must be willing to subordinate his personal goals to the good of the team.
    --Bud Wilkinson (1916-) US football coach
  • Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
    --Vince Lombardi
  • We won! We won! We won! Um, unfortunately, I bet on the other team, so we won't be going for pizza.
    --Chief Clancy Wiggum (The Simpsons)
  • All I want out of life, is that when I walk down the street folks will say, "There goes the greatest hitter that ever lived."
    --Ted Williams
  • If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
    --Vince Lombardi
  • Football is like life, it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
    --Vince Lombardi
  • We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
    --Vince Lombardi
  • There is no I in TEAM.
    --Unknown