The repository contains 87 quotes in the category “Sports.”
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Close doesn’t count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Frank Robinson
1935 —
Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.
Vin Scully
1927 —
We Justices must confront what is indeed an awesome responsibility. It has been rendered the solemn duty of the Supreme Court of the United States, laid upon it by Congress in pursuance of the Federal Government’s power “[t]o regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States,” to decide What Is Golf. I am sure that the Framers of the Constitution, aware of the 1457 edict of King James II of Scotland prohibiting golf because it interfered with the practice of archery, fully expected that sooner or later the paths of golf and government, the law and the links, would once again cross, and that the judges of this august Court would some day have to wrestle with that age-old jurisprudential question, for which their years of study in the law have so well prepared them: Is someone riding around a golf course from shot to shot really a golfer? The answer, we learn, is yes. The Court ultimately concludes, and it will henceforth be the Law of the Land, that walking is not a “fundamental” aspect of golf.
Justice Antonin Scalia
1936 —
PGA Tour, Inc. v. Martin (00-24)
Dissenting Opinion
May 29, 2001
Discussing the possibility that his former team, the Montreal Expos, may move to Washington:
The only way I’m coming to Washington is if I am elected. And if I do, I will paint the White House pink and turn it into a Mexican restaurant.
Bill “The Spaceman” Lee
1946 —
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won’t matter if I get this guy out.
Bill “The Spaceman” Lee
1946 —
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
Wayne Gretzky
1961 —
You’ll always miss one hundred percent of the shots you do not take.
Wayne Gretzky
1961 —
Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
1913 — 1970
We didn’t lose. We just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
1913 — 1970
I have four basic pitches: fastball, curve, slider and change-up, plus eight illegal ones.
Tommy John
1943 —
Playing golf is like going to a strip joint. After 18 holes you’re tired and most of your balls are missing.
Tim Allen
1953 —
Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher in baseball. He is always pitching when the other team doesn’t score any runs.
Tim McCarver
1941 —
Sport is like a war without the killing.
Ted Turner
1938 —
Sports fans, I have the final score for you on the big game between Harvard and William & Mary. It is: Harvard 14, William 12, Mary 6.
Steve Allen
1921 — 2000
Baseball owners have moral scruples against taking any man’s dollar when there is a chance to take a dollar and a quarter.
Red Smith
1905 — 1982
Why do people sing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame” when they’re already there?
Larry Andersen
1953 —
If he’s a good fastball hitter, should I throw him a bad fastball?
Larry Andersen
1953 —
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant’s life, she will choose to save the infant’s life without even considering if there are men on base.
Dave Barry
1947 —
I am going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Jerome Bettis
1972 —
A hot dog at the ballpark is better than a steak at the Ritz.
Humphrey Bogart
1899 — 1957
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