Sports Quotes

Sports Quotes

September 4, 2010


All that I know more surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.
- Albert Camus


Always play a game with somebody, never against them. Always win a game, never beat an opponent.
- Andrew Bailey


Anyone who will tear down sports will tear down America. Sports and religion have made America what it is today.
- Woody Hayes


As for bowling, how good can a thing be if it has to be done in an alley?
- John Grysby's ex-wife


As I understand it, sport is hard work for which you do not get paid.
- Irvin Cobb


Baseball and cricket are beautiful and highly stylized medieval war substitutes, chess made flesh, a mixture of proud chivalry and base-in both senses-greed.
- John Fowles


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


Baseball is beautiful....the supreme performing art. It combines in perfect harmony the magnificent features of ballet, drama, art, and ingenuity.
- Commissioner Bowie Kuhn


Baseball is what we were, football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory


Baseball would be a better game if more third basemen got hit in the mouth by line drivers.
- Dan Jenkins