Sports Quotes

• "Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium."
  By: Ron Bolton
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• "To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark."
  By: Roland Barthes
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• "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."
  By: Roger Bannister
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• "Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes."
  By: Roger Angell
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• "All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy - the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team."
  By: Rodney Marsh, 1979
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• "Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about."
  By: Rodney Marsh, 1969
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• "I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church."
  By: Robin Williams, 1982
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• "The ball is man's most disastrous invention, not excluding the wheel."
  By: Robert Morley, 1965
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• "It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans."
  By: Robert Lynd
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• "I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives."
  By: Rob Lee, 1998
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• "Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened."
  By: Rita Rudner
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• "Fans don't boo nobodies."
  By: Reggie Jackson
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• "The Russians have a weapon that can wipe out two hundred eighty thousand Americans. That puts them exactly ten years behind Howard Cosell."
  By: Red Smith
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• "If you screw things up in tennis, it's 15-love. If you screw up in boxing, it's your ass."
  By: Randall Tex Cobb
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• "If only Hitler and Mussolini could have a good game of bowls once a week at Geneva, I feel that Europe would not be as troubled as it is."
  By: R.G. Briscow
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• "Motor racing's less of a sport these days than a commercial break doing 150 mph."
  By: Peter Dunne, 1992
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