Sports Quotes

• "Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you get off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking."
  By: Gene Mauch
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• "These are my new shoes. They're good shoes. They won't make you rich like me, they won't make you rebound like me, they definitely won't make you handsome like me. They'll only make you have shoes like me. That's it."
  By: From a Charles Barkley commercial for basketball shoes, 1993
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• "You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER"
  By: Francis Vincent “Frank” Zappa, Jr.
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• "Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is merely a good excuse not to play football."
  By: Fran Lebowitz
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• "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."
  By: Fran Lebowitz
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• "Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important."
  By: Eugene J. McCarthy
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• "I'm old, old enough to play baseball or football. I'm not eight yet. My Mom told me when you start baseball, you aren't going to be able to run that fast because you had an operation. I told Mom I wouldn't need to run fast. When I play baseball, I'll just hit them out of the park. Then I'll be able to walk."
  By: Edward J. McGrath Jr.
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• "He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem."
  By: Eddie Shaw, referring to Herol Bomber Graham
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• "I always turn to the sports section first. The sports page records people's accomplishments; the front page has nothing but man's failures."
  By: Earl Warren
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• "My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game."
  By: Duffy Daugherty
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• "Describing an opposing team: Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck."
  By: Don Schula
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• "When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes."
  By: Don Drysdale, 1978
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• "Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans."
  By: Dick Young
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• "All sports are games of inches."
  By: Dick Ritger
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• "If horses can't eat it, I won't play on it."
  By: Dick Allen
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• "If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot."
  By: Dean Smith
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