Quotes About Sports

"Life is not a spectator sport. . . .
If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand
just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life."
-- Jackie Robinson

"Never let the fear of striking out get in your way."
-- George Herman "Babe" Ruth

"Sports do not build character. They reveal it."
-- Haywood Hale Brown

"Ninety percent of the game is half mental."
-- Yogi Berra

"100% of the shots you don't take don't go in."
-- Wayne Gretzky

"Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence win championships."
-- Michael Jordan

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy
than to fumble this football."
-- John Heisman

"It’s not the size of the dog in the fight,
but the size of the fight in the dog."
-- rchie Griffen, two-time Heisman winner

"What about football? Is it a sport or a concussion?"
-- Jim Murray, L.A. Times

"Effort is a measure of a Man."
-- William James

"In the field of sports you are more or less accepted
for what you do rather than what you are."
-- Althea Gibson

"A team is where a boy can prove his courage on his own.
A gang is where a coward goes to hide."
-- Mickey Mantle

"Golf is a good walk spoiled."
-- Mark Twain

"I've spent most of my life golfing - the rest I've just wasted."
-- Anonymous

"Golf is deceptively simple and endlessly complicated."
-- Arnold Palmer

"The only time my prayers are never answered is on the golf course."
-- Billy Graham

"I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game."
It is called an eraser.
-- Arnold Palmer

"You can't go into a shop and buy a good game of golf."
-- Sam Snead

"Swing hard in case you hit it."
-- Dan Marino

"No golfer can ever become too good to practice."
-- May Hezlet

"Have you ever noticed what golf spells backwards?"
-- Al Boliska

"Love is nothing in tennis, but in life it's everything.
A perfect combination of violent action
taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquility."
-- Billie Jean King

"Tennis begins with love.
-- Anonymous

"Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go."
-- Russell Lynes

"The bicycle is a curious vehicle. Its passenger is its engine."
-- John Howard

"The bicycle is just as good company as most husbands
and, when it gets old and shabby, a woman can dispose of it
and get a new one without shocking the entire community."
-- Ann Strong

"Melancholy is incompatible with bicycling."
-- James E. Starrs

"Until mountain biking came along, the bike scene was ruled
by a small elite cadre of people who seemed allergic to enthusiasm."
-- Jacquie Phelan

"Get a bicycle. You will not regret it if you live."
-- Mark Twain, "Taming the Bicycle"

"Messengers and mountain bikers share a common chromosome."
-- James Bethea

N"othing compares to the simple pleasure of a bike ride."
-- John F. Kennedy

"Cycle tracks will abound in Utopia."
-- H.G. Wells

"The secret to mountain biking is pretty simple.
The slower you go the more likely it is you'll crash."
-- Julie Furtado

"Think of bicycles as rideable art that can just about save the world."
-- Grant Petersen

"What do you call a cyclist who doesn't wear a helmet? An organ donor."
-- David Perry

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"
-- William Butler Yeats

"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
-- Japanese Proverb

"The truest expression of a people is in its dance
and in its music. Bodies never lie."
-- Agnes de Mille

"Dancers are the athletes of God."
-- Albert Einstein

"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful."
-- Agnes De Mille

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels." -- Faith Whittlesey

"Dancing with the feet is one thing, but dancing with the heart is another."
-- Anonymous

"Dance till the stars come down from the rafters."
Dance, Dance, Dance till you drop.
-- W.H. Auden

"It takes an athlete to dance, but an artist to be a dancer."
-- Shanna LaFleur