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Quotations About Sports

Related: Exercise, Games, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Golf, Fishing, Hockey

For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon.
Bill Strickland
The Quotable Cyclist


You never have the wind with you - either it is against you or you're having a good day.
Daniel Behrman
The Man Who Loved Bicycles


There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right tempo. Even a bicycle goes too fast.
Paul Scott Mowrer
The House of Europe


The number of shots taken by an opponent who is out of sight is equal to the square root of the sum of the number of curses heard plus the number of swishes.
Michael Green
The Art of Coarse Golf, 1975


All creatures who have ever walked have wished that they might fly. With highwheelers a flesh and blood man can hitch wings to his feet.
Karl Kron
Ten Thousand Miles on a Bicycle


Bicycling is the nearest approximation I know to the flight of birds. The airplane simply carries a man on its back like an obedient Pegasus; it gives him no wings of his own.
Louis J. Helle, Jr.
Spring in Washington


Golf is a fascinating game. It has taken me nearly forty years to discover that I can't play it.
Ted Ray
Golf - My Slice of Life, 1972


You see, you spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.
Jim Bouton
Ball Four, 1970


Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious.
P.G. Wodehouse
A Mixed Threesome, 1922


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


It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place this world is when one is playing golf.
Robert Lynd


The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play "Drop the Handkerchief."
James Naismith


Weekends don't pay as well as weekdays but at least there's football.
S.A. Sachs


Nothing there but basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.
Ogden Nash


Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky


If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.
Bob Golic


We get nose jobs all the time in the NHL, and we don't even have to go to the hospital.
Brad Park


May the holes in your net be no larger than the fish in it.
Irish Blessing


People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby


Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.
A.A. Milne


This is the second most exciting indoor sport, and the other one shouldn't have spectators.
Dick Vertleib


Give a man a fish and he has food for a day; teach him how to fish and you can get rid of him for the entire weekend.
Zenna Scha


Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
Steve Rushin


Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.
Will Rogers


Hockey is murder on ice.
Jim Murray


Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Jim Bouton


Business is a combination of war and sport.
André Maurois


There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
Washington Irving


Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.
Ted Williams


There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet, and put the darn ball in the basket.
Abe Lemons


Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
Satchel Paige


Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
Doug Larson


Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
Heywood Hale Brown


My other car is a Zamboni.
Hockey saying


American football makes rugby look like a Tupperware party.
Sue Lawley


I don't know if I want to go to New York. They'll have to pay me a lot more money because I like it here in Kansas City.
Roger Maris


The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.
A.K. Best


I'm convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.
Tom Clark


I have a tip that can take five strokes off anyone's golf game: it's called an eraser.
Arnold Palmer


Any American boy can be a basketball star if he grows up, up, up.
Bill Vaughn


By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.
Steve Rushin


Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
Doug Plank


Don't go through life without goals.
Hockey saying


Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.
Duffy Daugherty


When I am not playing baseball I like to sleep and hang out with my friends playing Xbox.
Alvin Simmons


The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
Babylonian Proverb


A hot dog at the ballgame beats roast beef at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart


You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.
Roy Campanella


Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course - the distance between your ears.
Bobby Jones


If the NBA were on channel 5 and a bunch of frogs making love was on channel 4, I'd watch the frogs even if they were coming in fuzzy.
Bobby Knight


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


You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Dan Birdwell


Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.
John Leonard


Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
Mary McGrory


She's a machine. She lives, sleeps, eats and breathes pitching. It's her life.
Mike Lingle


Bragging may not bring happiness, but no man having caught a large fish goes home through an alley.
Unknown


No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined.
Paul Gallico


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


I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.
Ben Crenshaw


I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
Dave Barry


A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
Jimmy Cannon


Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
Frank Gifford


My goal is to deny yours.
Hockey saying


There are two types of fisherman - those who fish for sport and those who fish for fish.
Unknown


Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona.
George F. Will


Great teamwork is the only way we create the breakthroughs that define our careers.
Pat Riley


If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson


A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.
Earl Wilson


Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
Flann O'Brien


Golf is like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun; if you do take it seriously, it breaks your heart.
Arthur Daley


I look at the NBA as a football game without the helmet.
Tom Tolbert


Half the game is mental; the other half is being mental.
Jim McKenny


Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
Erma Bombeck


Red ice sells hockey tickets.
Bob Stewart


Fishing is the sport of drowning worms.
Unknown


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


Eighteen holes of match or medal play will teach you more about your foe than will 18 years of dealing with him across a desk.
Grantland Rice


Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.
Bob Lemon


When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells


If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.
Phil Jackson


How would you like a job where, every time you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?
Jacques Plante


If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck


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


A bad day of fishing is better than a good day of work.
Unknown


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 are men on base.
Dave Barry


Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.
John Updike