Quotes Avenue

You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps

You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.
Bobby Knight

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire’s eye or on the ball.
James Patrick Murray

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.
Peter Ueberroth

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
Bill Veeck

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
Joe Garagiola

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

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.
Nolan Ryan

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

Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up.
Red Auerbach

Bobby Knight told me this: ‘There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.’ In other words a good offense wins.
Dan Quayle

You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.
Greg LeMond

You know it’s going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.
Charles Barkley

You know they’re not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
Harry Caray

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

You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
Dale Earnhardt

You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
Yogi Berra

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

The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose.
Ernie Banks

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.
Roger Kahn

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
Jack Benny

God made me fast. And when I run, I feel His pleasure.
Eric Liddell

Gold medals aren’t really made of gold. They’re made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.
Dan Gable

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

Golf is a day spent in a round of strenuous idleness.
William Wordsworth

Golf is a game in which one endeavors to control a ball with implements ill adapted for the purpose.
Woodrow Wilson

Golf is a game in which you yell “fore,” shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey

Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.
Jim Bishop

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.
Hank Aaron

The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
Martin Mull

The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen.
Bob Lemon

There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them works.
Charley Lau

There isn’t a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he’s such a great kid.
Jack Nicklaus

There was endless action – not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk – the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.
Charles Spalding

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

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

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.
Ben Hogan

I’m a competitive person and I love the challenge of mastering new things.
Sasha Cohen

I’m not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Whitey Herzog

I’m tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok.
Shaquille O’Neal

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they’d starve to death.
Sam Snead

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

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

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
Charles Barkley

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

If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don’t have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
Tommy Bolt

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.
George Orwell

Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
Vince Lombardi

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Dave Barry

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.
Barry Switzer

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.
Thierry Henry

Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King

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

Success is where preparation and opportunity meet.
Bobby Unser

Tennis and golf are best played, not watched.
Roger Kahn

Life is about timing.
Carl Lewis

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
Christy Mathewson

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
Henry David Thoreau

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.
Warren Spahn

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.
Tiger Woods

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people’s accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man’s failures.
Earl Warren

I am building a fire, and everyday I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.
Al McGuire

I don’t want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.
Rogers Hornsby

I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies.
Will Rogers

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.
Gerald R. Ford

I know I am getting better at golf because I am hitting fewer spectators.
Gerald R. Ford

I play in the low 80s. If it’s any hotter than that, I won’t play.
Joe E. Lewis

Most ball games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.
William James

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.
Bill Toomey

My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
Hank Aaron

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
Jimmy Connors

Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain

Nobody’s a natural. You work hard to get good and then work to get better. It’s hard to stay on top.
Paul Coffey