Sports
Quotes

I need to think the only use for sport was to give small boys something else to kick besides me.
- Katharine Whitehorn

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

I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon-an hour into the race I jumped up off the couch.
- Dave Letterman

I think (her defeated opponent) still thinks you can win on talent alone. But you've got to be gutsy, and you've got to play smart....If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.
- Chris Evert

I was born for soccer, just as Beethoven was born for music.
- Pele

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

I'm learning to use others' weaknesses. I don't hammer a man's soft sport constantly, because he may strengthen it. I just save it as a trump up my sleeve for moments when I really need a point.
- Arthur Ashe

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

If Howard Cosell was a sport, it would be Roller Derby.
- Jimmy Cannon

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- H. L. Mencken