Famous Sports Quotes

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again"

William Edward Hickson, Writer

"They wil rise highest who strive for the highest place"

Latin Proverb

"There are no gains without pains"

Adlai Stevenson, Politician

"It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What's tough is being good every day"

Willie Mays, Athlete

"Victory belongs to the most persevering"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

"If you can't accept losing, you can't win"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"They can because they think they can"

Virgil, Writer

"Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence"

George Will, Journalist

"If you're tired of starting over, stop giving up"

Shia LaBeouf, Actor

"You are the handicap you must face. You are the one who must choose your place"

James Lane Allen, Author

"Champions keep playing until they get it right"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing"

Vince Lombardi, Coach

"The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight"

Ben Hogan, Athlete

"You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen"

Joe DiMaggio, Athlete

"He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity"

Nick Faldo, Athlete

"A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be"

Wayne Gretzky, Athlete

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught"

Ambrose Bierce, Journalist

"If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf"

Bob Hope, Comedian

"Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins"

Dan Quayle, Vice President

"I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their stomachs out and eat their children"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

"Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers"

Herbert Hoover, President

"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break"

John Madden, Entertainer

"Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence"

Erma Bombeck, Journalist

"I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out"

Rodney Dangerfield, Comedian

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro"

Hunter S. Thompson, Journalist

"As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day"

Michael Jordan, Athlete

"He's going to be around a long, long time, if his body holds up. That's always a concern with a lot of players because of how much they play. A lot of guys can't handle it. But it looks like he can"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen"

Jack Nicklaus, Athlete

"Half the lies they tell about me aren't true"

Yogi Berra, Athlete

"For the last six years I was struggling and it was difficult sometimes. I had to miss some training sessions but I am really happy because it's done and it is really good for me. I learned how to play with it, and now maybe I will have to change my game again"

Didier Drogba, Athlete