Sports
Quotes

Basketball can serve as a kind of metaphor for ultimate cooperation. It is a sport where success, as symbolized by the championship, requires that the dictates of community prevail over selfish personal impulses.
- Bill Bradley

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.
- Bill Bradley

Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the greatest athlete that ever lived.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias

Boxing is a great sport and a dirty business.
- Ken Norton

Boxing is the only sport in the world where two guys get paid for doing something they'd be arrested for it they got drunk and did it for nothing.
- Michael Kelly

Bridge is a sport of the mind.
- Omar Sharif

Don Quixote would understand golf. It is the impossible dream.
- Jim Murray

Every time you win, you're reborn, when you lose, you die a little.
- George Allen

Everybody is saying that I might be the most unpopular champion in the history of Wimbledon....but what do I care? Because I am the champion.
- Jimmy Connors

Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes.
- Don Marquis