Famous Sports Quotes

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” and 49 other Yogi Berra Quotes
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You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
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You got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
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You should always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise, they won’t come to yours.
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You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.
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You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.
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You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there.
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I never said most of the things I said.
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I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question.
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I’m a lucky guy and I’m happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to thank everyone for making this night necessary.
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I’m not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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If people don’t want to come out to the ball park, nobody’s gonna stop ‘em.
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If the world was perfect, it wouldn’t be.
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If you ask me anything I don’t know, I’m not going to answer.
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If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.
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In baseball, you don’t know nothing.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.
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It gets late early out there.
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It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
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It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
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It’s pretty far, but it doesn’t seem like it.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
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Slump? I ain’t in no slump… I just ain’t hitting.
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So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.
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Quotes about volleyball by atheltes and coaches.  Check out April’s Beach Volleyball Log for volleyball news updates.
My dream was to be either a volleyball player or a veterinarian.
- Gisele

Give it your all on the sprawl, Drop a pancake and keep it clean, Find the target, put ‘em on the hook then dish it up, flare and catch some air, Check the set, bring some heat and watch them bail!

Volleyball is 20 percent luck and 80 percent style.

If volleyball was easy it would be called football.

VolleyBall Life :
1. we can get it up in any position
2. our shorts are tighter than our game
3. we can handle a little floor burn every now and then
4. we’re always gonna hit it hard
5. we’ll play with you indoors or outdors
6. balls never hit the floor and we’ll get a touch on all of them that come our way
7. we can play with 2 or 6 other people
8. we’ve got quick feet and quick hands
9. we like it quick hard and fast
10. and no matter what we gonna beat you up
…because volleyball is more than just a sport, it’s a way of life

Once I got past my anger toward my mother, I began to excel in volleyball and modelling.
- Gabrielle Reece

I played varsity on all of them for four years. I’m 5′9 and that’s not that tall for a center so I was a forward. I loved playing volleyball and basketball and track I was good at, but it stressed me out.
- Bridgette Wilson

I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
- Mia Hamm

I grew up on the beach and played side-out scoring all my life, but rally scoring is better for our sport. There is pressure on every play. You can’t make a mistake, but that also means your opponent can’t make a mistake. It makes the matches more exciting to watch.
- Holly McPeak

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can’t go hide in the corner.
- Kerri Walsh

Anyone can support a team that is winning - it takes no courage. But to stand behind a team to defend a team when it is down and really needs you, that takes a lot of courage.
- Bart Starr

I got the nickname Spitfire for a reason. I burned inside to play volleyball. I loved the competition of it.
- Summer Altice

Volleyball is a dandy game and more besides.
- Peter Wardale
Volleyball is a Jewish sport. It’s fun, and nobody can get hurt.
- Gail Parent

Volleyball is my life, everything else is just details.

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that’s what freedom is all about.
- Newt Gingrich

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don’t have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.
- Misty May

Volleyball is the sport through which I am able to express my God-given talents of being an athlete. It is a sport which involves relating, pushing, and encouraging your teammates.

Volleyball anchored me at a time in my life when I needed it. It gave me a reason for being this big, big girl.
- Gabrielle Reece

Quotes by one of the most inspirational athletes of all time, Lou Gehrig:

-I’m not a headline guy. I know that as long as I was following Ruth to the plate I could have stood on my head and no one would have known the difference.

-In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.  

-The ballplayer who loses his head, who can’t keep his cool, is worse than no ballplayer at all.  

-There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all. 

-What are you going to do? Admit to yourself that the pitchers have you on the point of surrender? You can’t do that. You must make yourself think that the pitchers are just as good as they always have been or just as bad. 

—Gehrig’s Farewell Speach made on July 4, 1939 from Yankee Stadium. It was on Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen years and I have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans. Look at these grand men. Which of you wouldn’t consider it the highlight of his career just to associate with them for even one day? Sure I’m lucky. Who wouldn’t have considered it an honor to have known Jacob Ruppert? Also, the builder of baseball’s greatest empire, Ed Barrows? To have spent six years with that wonderful little fellow, Miller Huggins? Then to have spent the next nine years with that outstanding leader, that smart student of psychology, the best manager in baseball today, Joe McCarthy? Sure, I’m lucky. When the New York Giants, a team you would give your right arm to beat and vice versa, sends you a gift, that’s something. When everybody down to the groundskeeper and those boys in white coats remember you with trophies, that’s something. When you have a father and mother work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body, it’s a blessing. When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you dreamed existed, that’s the finest I know. I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth. And I might have been given a bad break, but I’ve got an awful lot to live for.”

Quotes from famous Green Bay Packers Football coach, Vince Lombardi

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.
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Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate.
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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Dictionary is the only place that success comes before work. Hard work is the price we must pay for success. I think you can accomplish anything if you’re willing to pay the price.
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Fatigue makes cowards of us all.
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Football is like life - it requires perseverance, self-denial, hard work, sacrifice, dedication and respect for authority.
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I don’t think there’s a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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If it doesn’t matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score?
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If you are not fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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If you can accept losing you can’t win. If you can walk you can run. No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in your mind.
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If you can accept losing, you can’t win.
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Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
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It’s easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you’re a winner, when you’re number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you’re not a winner.
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It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
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Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.
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Leaders aren’t born they are made. And they are made just like anything else, through hard work. And that’s the price we’ll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any goal.
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Life’s battles don’t always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can.
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Live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!
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Once you agree upon the price you and your family must pay for success, it enables you to ignore the minor hurts, the opponent’s pressure, and the temporary failures.
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Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
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People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society.
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
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Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
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Show me a good loser, and I’ll show you a loser.
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Some of us will do our jobs well and some will not, but we will be judged by only one thing-the result.
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Some people try to find things in this game that don’t exist but football is only two things - blocking and tackling.
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Quotes about sports

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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. ~Earl Warren
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Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don’t believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke
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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. ~R.G. Briscow
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The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back. ~Steve Garvey
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Sports is human life in microcosm. ~Howard Cosell
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Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ~Blaise Pascal
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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. ~John Madden
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I don’t believe professional athletes should be role models. I believe parents should be role models…. It’s not like it was when I was growing up. My mom and my grandmother told me how it was going to be. If I didn’t like it, they said, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on your way out.” Parents have to take better control. ~Charles Barkley
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I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. ~Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News
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We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time. ~Vince Lombardi
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The trouble with referees is that they just don’t care which side wins. ~Tom Canterbury
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When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. ~Don Drysdale, 1978
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With the money I’m making, I should be playing two positions. ~Pete Rose, 1977
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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. ~Rita Rudner
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Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren’t we all? ~Vin Scully
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I don’t know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974, BQ
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To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there’s no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ~Jack Handey
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Prize fighters can sometimes read and write when they start - but they can’t when they finish. ~Martin H. Fischer
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October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football. ~Jason Love
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I would have thought that the knowledge that you are going to be leapt upon by half-a-dozen congratulatory, but sweaty team-mates would be inducement not to score a goal. ~Arthur Marshall
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A player who conjugates a verb in the first person singular cannot be part of the squad, he has to conjugate the verb in the first person plural. We. We want to conquer. We are going to conquer. Using the word “I” when you’re in a group makes things complicated. ~Wanderley Luxemburgo, 1999
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One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn’t do you any good. ~Abe Lemmons
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The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. ~Author Unknown
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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. ~Jay Leno
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To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. ~Mary Russell Mitford, 1823
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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. ~J.J. Bentley
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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. ~Rob Lee, 1998
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game’s aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear. ~Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch, 1992
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Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. ~Sylvester Stallone, 1990
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Professional wrestling’s most mysterious hold is on its audience. ~Luke Neely, 1953
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It’s a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel. ~Kevin Keegan, 1995
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The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition. ~Nick Seitz
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We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it. ~John F. Kennedy, 1961
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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. ~Rodney Marsh, 1969
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I don’t think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. ~Al Oerter
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The umpire… is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. ~Neville Cardus
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Most games are lost, not won. ~Casey Stengel
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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. ~George Bernard Shaw
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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ~H.L. Mencken
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The more I practice, the luckier I get. ~Jerry Barber, about golf
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Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you’re crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you’ve got patience. They’d both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. ~Bo Jackson
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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. ~James Reston
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. ~George A. Sheehan
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I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. ~Sam Snead, about golf
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There’s nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn’t cure. ~Mike Penner, Los Angeles Times
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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. ~Dean Smith
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I watched the Indy 500, and I was thinking that if they left earlier they wouldn’t have to go so fast. ~Steven Wright
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Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war. ~Al McGuire
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I think you enjoy the game more if you don’t know the rules. Anyway you’re on the same wavelength as the referees. ~Jonathan Davies, 1995
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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. ~Homer Simpson, The Simpsons
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If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. ~George Brett, 1986
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Losing is the great American sin. ~Jerome Holtzman
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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. ~Roger Bannister
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If winning isn’t everything, why do they keep score? ~Vince Lombardi
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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. ~Emil Zatopek
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It’s like going into a nuclear war with bows and arrows. ~Joe Kinnear, comparing finances and resources in high-dollar and low-dollar sports teams
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I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. ~Robin Williams, 1982
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Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. ~Ron Bolton
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