Famous Sports Quotes

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Quotes by Red Sox players, Red Sox Coaches and Media:

Terry Francona: “If we could have scored one more run than the White Sox in each game, I think we would have won the series.”

Jason Varitek: “I’m the best catcher in the league when it comes to managing a pitching staff … as long as that pitching staff has Pedro Martinez, a healthy Curt Schilling, a focused Derek Lowe and some semblance of a bullpen.”

John Henry: “We’re co-champions of the AL East. And, I’ve asked our grounds crew to keep our name up on top on the left field scoreboard all winter long.”

Charles Steinberg: “Oh, Tessie …”

NESN’s Tom Caron: “Well, at least the Yankees aren’t going to win. They got the worst of it when they won they AL East and had to travel to Anaheim to play the Angels. The Red Sox got the easier opponent, and only had to fly to Chicago. Right, Eck? Huh, Eck? Please say yes, Eck. Oh, please, Eck.”

Keith Foulke: “How’d the Bruins do last night?”

Red Sox Idiot Nation: “This year doesn’t count. Only 2004 really matters. Yankees suck. Yankees suck. Yankees suck …”

– Bill Bingham, Westerly, RI

Kevin Millar: “What’s the problem? We came back from 0-3 last year didn’t we? We’re loose. The guys will just take a shower, go home, rest and come back and give it our best shot tomorrow.”

Manny Ramirez: (Sorry. Couldn’t get a quote from Manny … he was still completing his trip around the bases after admiring his home run that brought the Red Sox to within one run of the White Sox.)

WEEI Big Show Co-Host, Pete Shephard: “I just hope that Schilling doesn’t have to warm-up, sit down, warm-up, sit down and warm-up again on Saturday if it rains.”

Johnny Damon: “This team revolves around me. I should be paid $10 million a year. You saw what I did in the clutch in the sixth inning, didn’t you? If I got a hit there, we surely would have won. So, I’m sure you would all agree that if we’re going to win, it’s because of me. Manny is great. David is great. But without me hitting, neither one is going to get a chance to get a big hit. I think I proved that in the 6th inning when I popped up to the catcher with the bases loaded.”

 “The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.”
 Pierre de Coubertin
 

“To compete in the Olympic Games has always been a dream. The opportunity I have to represent my country at them is unbelievably exciting.”
 David Beard
 
 
“It has been said that the Opening Ceremony of the Olympic Games is something that an athlete will remember for the rest of their life. It is true. That moment when you walk into the Olympic Stadium as part of the Australian Olympic Team, is a moment that I will never forget.”
 Jeff Fenech
 
“The Olympic Games is the ultimate level of competition.”
 Russell Mark
 
 “Walking into the Olympic stadium at the Opening Ceremony of my first Olympic Games is a moment that I will never forget.”
 Steve Kettner
 
 
“Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.”  Olivia Newton-John

“So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated.”
 Epictetus
 
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
 Pierre de Coubertin
 
 
“Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.”
Pierre de Coubertin
 
 
 “It is the inspiration of the Olympic Games that drives people not only to compete but to improve, and to bring lasting spiritual and moral benefits to the athlete and inspiration to those lucky enough to witness the athletic dedication.”
Herb Elliott
 
“The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.”
Pierre de Coubertin
 
“When badminton was accepted into the Barcelona Olympic Games it showed that there was an acceptance of my sport internationally.”
Rhonda Cator

“The Olympic Games must not be an end in itself, they must be a means of creating a vast programme of physical education and sports competitions for all young people.”  Avery Brundage

 
“For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine athletics and fine art.”
 Avery Brundage
“The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.”
 Pierre de Coubertin
  
 

Wikipedia on tennis

Speed in tennis is a strange mixture of intuition, guesswork, footwork and hair-trigger reflexes.  Many of the players famed for quickness on court would finish dead last in a field of schoolgirls in a race over any distance more than ten yards.  ~Eugene Scott

In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.  ~Elliot Chaze

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Quotes by Michael Jordan

I’m not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.
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I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.
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I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don’t do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.
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I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
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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.
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I’ve never been afraid to fail.
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If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
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If you’re trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I’ve had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
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Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game.
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My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
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My body could stand the crutches but my mind couldn’t stand the sideline.
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My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.
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Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation.
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Kevin Harvick
“As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track.”
“On any given day, I don’t think there’s anybody who can outdrive me. That’s the mind set I have going into every race.”

Tony Hulman
“Gentlemen, start your engines!”

Mark Martin
(About Jeff Gordon) “You can’t argue with results. And I can’t compete with his record.”

Steve McQueen

“When you’re racing, it’s life. Anything that happens before or after is just waiting.”

Shirley Muldowney

“I want to be the fastest woman in the world - in a manner of speaking.”
“People think it’s easy because you drive in a straight line. What they don’t realize is you’ve got to react in a hurry.”

Danica Patrick
“Hey, I’m just a racer who happens to be a woman. I made several mistakes today but I am with a great team and they helped me get back in the fight for the lead. At one point, I thought, ‘Wow, I could actually win this thing.’”

Richard Petty
(About his 1988 Daytona accident) “I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black.”
“We drove for the sheer fun of driving because there wasn’t that much money to be made.”

Tom Sneva
“You just have to treat death like any other part of life.”

Gilles Villeneuve
“I will drive flat out all the time. I love racing.”
“If someone said to me that you can have three wishes, my first would have been to get into racing, my second to be in Formula One, my third to drive for Ferrari.”

Darrell Waltrip
“Boogity, Boogity, Boogity! Let’s go racing, boys.”
“Fire, wind, rain, and black cars with the No. 3 on them…these things are natural disasters, and you have to steer clear of them.”

Steven Wright
“I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast.”

Mario Andretti
“The crashes people remember, but drivers remember the near misses.”
Marco Andretti
(About the Indy 500) “Woulda, coulda, shoulda… Second place is nothing. Nobody remembers who finished second here.”

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The agony of defeat. - Quotes about losing

Whoever said, “It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,” probably lost.  ~Martina Navratilova

Losing is no disgrace if you’ve given your best. ~Jim Palmer

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

“Alan Webb is the best thing to happen in this event, but professionals and collegiates don’t want to lose to high school guys. I don’t want to lose to no one.”
Gabe Jennings,

“When you’re having fun, you have a lot of heart and desire. Winning breeds winning. Losing breeds losing, and when you’re losing, you don’t think of anything else.”
Angelina Wolvert

We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.  ~Vince Lombardi

Most games are lost, not won.  ~Casey Stengel

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out.  ~George Brett

Losing is the great American sin.  ~Jerome Holtzman

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.  ~Gene Mauch

In play there are two pleasures for your choosing - The one is winning, and the other losing.
~Lord Byron

Losers quit when they’re tired.  Winners quit when they’ve won.  ~Author Unknown

It’s not whether you win or lose - but whether I win or lose.  ~Sandy Lyle

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes.  So, God is always the loser.  ~John Donne

Losing doesn’t eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season. ~Troy Aikman

The fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I’ll show you a permanent loser.
~O. J. Simpson

Show me a good loser and I’ll show you an idiot. ~Leo Durocher

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.
Michael Jordan

No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
Muhammad Ali

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.
Steffi Graf

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment… quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life.
Chris Evert Lloyd

Joe DiMaggio
(Referring to Opening Day) “You look forward to it like a birthday party when you’re a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.”

Joe Garagiola
“When I covered the Yankees in the ’60s, they had players like Horace Clarke, Ross Moschitto, Jake Gibbs and Dooley Womack. It was like the first-team missed the bus.”

Joe McCarthy
(Asked if Joe Dimaggio could bunt) “I don’t know — nor have I any intention of ever finding out.”

Johnny Bench
(On Graig Nettles winning the World Series MVP award) “If we’d known he wanted a car so bad, we’d have given it to him.”

Mickey Mantle
“If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.”

Mickey Rivers
(On the weather during a game) “Man, it was tough. The wind was blowing about 100 degrees.”

Pedro Martinez
(On his inability to beat the New York Yankees) “What can I say–just tip my hat and call the Yankees my daddy.”

Phil Rizzuto
(After a news bulletin reported the death of Pope Paul VI in 1978) “Well, that kind of puts a damper on another Yankees win.”

Reggie Jackson
“The only way I’m going to get a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.”

“When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it’s like you’ve thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.”

Waite Hoyte
“All the lies about Ruth are true.”

Yogi Berra
“Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t come to yours.”

“If the people don’t want to come out to the park, nobody’s gonna stop them.”

“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”

“You can observe a lot just by watching.”

Don Zimmer
(After being thrown to the ground by Pedro Martinez) “I should have stayed in the dugout”

George Steinbrenner
(About Free Agency) “I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball”

(On Yankee Hideki Irabu) “That big fat toad”

(After becoming principal owner of the Yankees) “I won’t be active in the day-to-day operations of the club at all. I can’t spread myself so thin. I’ve got enough headaches with my shipping company.”

Alex Rodriguez
“If Boston fans start cheering me, there’s something wrong with what I’m doing.”

Babe Ruth
(To Ty Cobb) “Hell, I could have hit .600 myself! But I’m paid to hit homers.”

(Upon meeting Calvin Coolidge at Yankee Stadium) “Hot as hell, ain’t it, Prez?”

Billy Martin
“Everything looks nicer when you win. The girls are prettier. The cigars taste better. The trees are greener.”

“All I know is, I pass people on the street these days, and they don’t know whether to say hello or to say good-bye.”

Casey Stengel
“Now you take Ernie Lombardi who’s a big man and has a big nose and you take Martin who’s a little man and has a bigger nose. How do you figger it?”

“Managing is getting paid for home runs someone else hits.”

“All right, everybody line up alphabetically according to your height.”

“The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.”

“That boy couldn’t hit the ground if he fell out of an airplane.”

“Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It’s staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.”

Catfish Hunter
(On Reggie Jackson) “He’d give you the shirt off his back. Of course, he’d call a press conference to announce it.”

David Letterman
“I heard doctors revived a man who had been dead for 4-1/2 minutes. When they asked him what it was like being dead, he said it was like listening to Yankees announcer Phil Rizzuto during a rain delay.”

Don Larsen
Asked if he ever gets tired of talking about his perfect World Series game: “No, why should I?”

Frank Sullivan
Asked how he pitched to Mickey Mantle: “With tears in my eyes.”

Yankee Sportscaster Jerry Coleman
“There’s a fly to deep center field. Winfield is going back, back. He hits his head against the wall. It’s rolling toward second base.”

Jim Bouton
“A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everybody else.”

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many players on the field.”

“You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.”

A collection of famous quotes about the sport of horse racing

“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.”
- Jacqueline Kennedy

“Treat a horse like a woman and a woman like a horse. And they’ll both win for you.”
- Elizabeth Arden

“He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.”
- Benjamin Franklin

“If you cut a dog’s head off, you get 25 hours bad luck. It is bad luck to kill a pegasus, unicorn,
horse, or similar, if it is pure white in colour. (Followers of Dark and Death tend to disregard this).”

“I’d call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.”
- Woody Allen

“Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.”
- W C Fields

“Look not a gift horse in the mouth.”
- Unknown

If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come back a horse.
- Thomas Fuller

Guesses at Truth
Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one’s horse as he is leaping.
- Julius & Augustus Hare

Sleep and Poetry
They swayed about upon a rocking horse, And thought it Pegasus.
- John Keats

Weekend Book
I know two things about the horse
And one of them is rather coarse.
- Naomi Royde-Smith

Twelfth Night
My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color.
- Shakespeare

Mr Sponge’s Sporting Tour
There is no secret so close as that between a rider and his horse.
- R S Surtees

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Competition IS Sports Here are some motivational competition quotes.

Competition brings out the best in products and the worst in people.
Quote by: David Sarnoff

Competition is a process or variety of habitual behavior that grows out of a habit of mind.
Quote by: Willard Beecher

The ability to learn faster than your competitors may be only sustainable competitive advantage.
Quote by: Arie de Geus

Besides winning, [the most fun thing is] getting out there and mixing it up with friends; it’s the competition.
Quote by: Al Unser, Jr.

Surely the best way to meet the enemy is head on in the field and not wait till they plunder our very homes.
Quote by: Oliver Goldsmith

Competition is the whetstone of talent.
Quote by: Traditional Proverb

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.
Quote by: Tom Landry

When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow.
Quote by: Jerry Martin

Race, what is that? Race is a competition, somebody winning and somebody losing. . . . Blood doesn’t run in races! Come on!
Quote by: Beah Richards

These are the days when it takes all you’ve got just to keep up with the losers.
Quote by: Robert Orpen

Like many businessmen of genius he learned that free competition was wasteful, monopoly efficient. And so he simply set about achieving that efficient monopoly.
Quote by: Mario Puzo

Win or lose, do it fairly.
Quote by: Knute Rockne

In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you.
Quote by: William Knudsen

Every man in the world is better than someone else and not as good someone else.
Quote by: William Saroyan

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition — in having put forth the best within you
Quote by: Henry J. Kaiser

Enjoy the successes that you have, and don’t be too hard on yourself when you don’t do well. Too many times we beat up on ourselves. Just relax and enjoy it.
Quote by: Patty Sheehan

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.
Quote by: Willian van Horne

If you make every game a life and death proposition, you’re going to have problems. For one thing, you’ll be dead a lot.
Quote by: Dean Smith

Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Quote by: Henry Clay

The key to any game is to use your strengths and hide your weaknesses.
Quote by: Paul Westphal

Born Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali stung like a bee not only with his punches, but with his words and from time to time his words would also float like a butterfly. Famous quotes from the greatest fighter the sport of boxing has ever known

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I’m so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
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I’m the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren’t no satellites when Jesus and Moses were around, so people far away in the villages didn’t know about them.
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If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
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If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize.
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It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.
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It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.
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It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
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It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
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It’s not bragging if you can back it up.
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It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.
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Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents; people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don’t let yourself believe it will happen to you.
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My toughest fight was with my first wife.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.
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No one knows what to say in the loser’s locker room.
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Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.
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Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.
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Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
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Silence is golden when you can’t think of a good answer.
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Superman don’t need no seat belt.
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