
Sports Quotes
September 4, 2010
If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's going to stop 'em.
- Yogi Berra
If the players were going to learn the offense, they would have to have the confidence to make decisions on their own. That would never happen if they were constantly searching for direction from me. I wanted them to disconnect themselves from me, so they could connect with their teammates-and the game.
- Phil Jackson
If you are going to try cross-country skiing, start with a small country.
- From "Saturday Night Live"
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
- Vince Lombardi
If you see a tennis player who looks as if he is working hard, that means he isn't very good
- Helen Wills Moody
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
- Bob Hope
If you win through bad sportsmanship that's no real victory.
- Babe Didrikson Zaharias
In golf you're always breaking a barrier. When you bust it, you set yourself a little higher barrier, and try to break that one.
- Jack Nicklaus
In no game played with a ball is concentration a grater virtue than in tennis.
- Allison Danzig
It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course.
- Henry Aaron