Sports
Quotes

I always turn to the sports pages first, which record people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.
- Chief Justice Earl Warren

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

You can't win them all but you can try.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.
- Nancy Lopez

I was not successful as a ball player as it was a game of skill.
- Casey Stengel

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

The task of taking one's body, mind and spirit through the mighty marathon parallels the crucible of life.
- Lisa Lyman

If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
- Paul Fussell

Serious sports, 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