Sports Quotes

• "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."
  By: Jay Leno
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• "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."
  By: James Reston
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• "To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."
  By: Jack Handey
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• "It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible."
  By: J.J. Bentley
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• "I feel an autumnal Saturday, no matter how beautiful, is wasted if it doesn't find me sitting in on a football game."
  By: Howard Roberts
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• "If the Bible has taught us nothing else, and it hasn't, it's that girls should stick to girls' sports, such as hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing, and such and such."
  By: Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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• "Sport is a preserver of health."
  By: Hippocrates
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• "It took me seventeen years to get 3,000 hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course."
  By: Hank Aaron
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• "American professional athletes are bilingual; they speak English and profanity."
  By: Gordie Howe, 1975
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• "The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game."
  By: Glenn Dickey
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• "I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball."
  By: Gerald Early
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• "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."
  By: George Orwell
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• "Many continentals think life is a game; the English think cricket is a game."
  By: George Mikes, How to Be an Alien, 1946
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• "It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls."
  By: George Bernard Shaw
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• "When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish."
  By: General Dwight David Eisenhower
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• "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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