Sports Quotes

Here is a social experiment: If you are in a waiting room, start talking about sports. Soon, half the people will get into an animated discussion with you. That's the power of sports. It's no wonder then that TV sports channels earn a perennial supply of good rating points. Enjoy these sports quotes.

• Rita Rudner
  Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
  
  
• Howard Cosell
  Sports is human life in microcosm.
  
  
• Arthur Ashe
  There is a syndrome in sports called "paralysis by analysis."
  
  
• Roger Bannister
  The essence of sports is that while you're doing it, nothing else matters, but after you stop, there is a place, generally not very important, where you would put it.
  
  
• Dick Ritger
  All sports are games of inches.
  
  
• Fran Lebowitz
  When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.
  
  
• Jay Leno
  I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give it up. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football. And I have 20-20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.
  
  
• James Reston
  There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both.
  
  
• Bill Lee
  When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
  
  
• George Orwell
  Serious sport 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... there are quite enough real causes of trouble already, and we need not add to them by encouraging young men to kick each other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
  
  
• Alistair Cooke
  Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
  
  
• Rita Mae Brown
  Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
  
  
• Hippocrates
  Sport is a preserver of health.
  
  
• Simon Gray
  I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.
  
  
• Muhammad Ali
  Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision.
  
  
• Michael Jordan
  When I step onto the court, I don't have to think about anything. If I have a problem off the court, I find that after I play, my mind is clearer and I can come up with a better solution. It's like therapy. It relaxes me and allows me to solve problems.
  
  
• Martina Navratilova
  Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.
  
  
• Billie Jean King
  Champions keep playing until they get it right.
  
  
• John McEnroe
  I'll let the racket do the talking.
  
  
• Michael Jordan
  I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.