The repository contains 87 quotes in the category “Sports.”
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Second place is the first loser.
Can’t anybody here play this game?
Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975
The clock isn’t slower; you’re just faster.
The race is not always to the swift but to those who keep on running.
Teamwork is the fuel that allows common people to produce uncommon results.
There comes a time when you’d rather injure your body than injure your pride.
If winning isn’t important, why keep score?
If all the year were playing holidays, to sport would be as tedious as to work.
William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616
Golf: a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
1835 — 1910
I’d rather be the Yankees catcher than the president, and that makes me pretty lucky, I guess, because I could never be the president.
Yogi Berra
1925 —
Baseball is the only major sport that looks backwards in a mirror.
George Carlin
1937 — 2008
It’s easy to get good players. It’s getting them to play together that is the tough part.
Casey Stengel
1890 — 1975
If I played today I’d be a million-dollar player. Is that scary or what?
Bob Uecker
1935 —
I set some records that will never be equalled. In fact, I hope half of them don’t even get printed.
Bob Uecker
1935 —
Sports do not build character, they reveal it.
John Wooden
1910 —
Listen to the ump. He says, “Play ball,” not “Work ball.”
Willie Stargell
1940 — 2001
The Phillies offered me a contract to come back in January. The only contingency was that I had to lose twenty. So I lost twenty, reported to spring training, only to find there was a huge misunderstanding. They were talking years, not pounds.
Tug McGraw
1944 — 2004
The difference between individual intelligence and group intelligence is the difference between Harvard University and the Harvard University football team.
P. J. O’Rourke
1947 —
In 1938 to State Department operative and former White Sox catcher Moe Berg, who offered to trade his knowledge of baseball for Einstein's knowledge of mathematics:
I think you would learn mathematics faster.
Albert Einstein
1879 — 1955
On the 1981 baseball strike:
O, Sovereign Owners and Princely Players, masters of amortization, tax shelters, bonuses, and deferred compensation, go back to work.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
1938 — 1989
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