Sports
Quotes

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.
- Enos Slaughter

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford

Pro football keeps telling them you can't be second-rate, you have to be winners. No matter who you victimize, no matter how hard you work or who you sacrifice, it's all worth it to be Number One.
- Dave Meggysey

Professional football is getting very rough. You have to wear shoulder pads, a face mask, and a hard helmet-ant that's just to sit in the stands.
- Unknown

Rockne wanted nothing but "bad losers." Good losers get into the habit of losing.
- George E. Allen

Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
- Frank Shorter

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

Show me a good sportsman and I'll show you a player I'm looking to trade.
- Leo Durocher

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
- Dave Barry

Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting.
- Yogi Berra