The repository contains 87 quotes in the category “Sports.”
Showing quotes 41 through 60 in the category “Sports.” Page 1 2 3 4 5.
After the Phillies scored eight runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to win a game:
We’re losing by eight runs, and all I’m thinking about at that point is getting back to the hotel by midnight because that’s when room service closes. All of a sudden we start getting hits and more hits, and I’m saying, “I’m not going to make it.” If you’re not going to get room service you might as well win.
John Kruk
1961 —
Baseball is a kids’ game that grown-ups only tried to screw up.
Bob Lemon
1920 — 2000
After her grandson Len Barker pitched a perfect game in 1981:
Tell Len I’ve very proud of him. I hope he does better next time.
I try for good players and I try for good character. If necessary, though, I settle for the good player.
Phil Maloney
1927 —
Never bet with anyone you meet on the first tee who has a deep suntan, a one-iron in his bag, and squinty eyes.
If you’re drunk, don’t drive. Don’t even putt.
Dean Martin
1917 — 1995
One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other ninety-nine percent are followers of women.
John McGraw
1873 — 1934
We’re not athletes, we’re baseball players!
On Albert Belle:
Very few people will bother to say goodbye to a guy who almost never said hello.
Dan Patrick
1957 —
Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I’m very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that.
Bill Shankly
1913 — 1981
I knew it would ruin my arm, but one year of 25-7 is worth five of 15-15.
Steve Stone
1947 —
To Kenneth Clarke, who said, "Isn’t it terrible about losing to the Germans at our national sport?" when England lost to Germany in the 1990 World Cup Semifinal:
I shouldn’t worry too much; we’ve beaten them twice this century at theirs.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
1925 —
You don’t know what pressure is until you play for five bucks with only two in your pocket.
Lee Trevino
1939 —
The best thing about baseball is that you can do something about yesterday tomorrow.
Manny Trillo
1950 —
Chicago is the city of broad shoulders and narrow trophy cases.
Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.
George Will
1941 —
Jogging is for people who aren’t intelligent enough to watch television.
Victoria Wood
1953 —
Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty thousand dollars to sign.
Cy Young
1867 — 1955
After Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe divorced:
It proves no man can be a success in two national pastimes.
Oscar Levant
1906 — 1972
If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough.
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