1- Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins. -Dan Quayle
2- Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense to catch up. -Red Auerbach
3- Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field? -Jim Bouton
4- Baseball life is a tough life on the family. -Nolan Ryan
5- Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer. -Ted Williams
6- Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast. -Joe Garagiola
7- Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off. -Bill Veeck
8- As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. -Michael Jordan
9- Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. -Phil Jackson
10- Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. -Doug Collins
11- All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity. -Gordie Howe
12- Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. -William Arthur Ward
13- A lifetime of training for just ten seconds. -Jesse Owens
14- A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be. -Wayne Gretzky
15- One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good. ~Abe Lemmons
16- Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened. ~Rita Rudner
17- Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all? ~Vin Scully
18- 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
19- Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience. ~Luke Neely, 1953
20- To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. ~Mary Russell Mitford, 1823
21- Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own. ~Alistair Cooke
22- 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
23- 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
24- When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. ~Don Drysdale, 1978
25- I don't know. I never smoked AstroTurf. ~Tug McGraw, when asked if he preferred grass or artificial turf, 1974, BQ
26- October is not only a beautiful month but marks the precious yet fleeting overlap of hockey, baseball, basketball, and football. ~Jason Love
27- 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
28- Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. ~Sylvester Stallone, 1990
29- 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
30- To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other. ~Jack Handey
31- With the money I'm making, I should be playing two positions. ~Pete Rose, 1977
32- The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins. ~Tom Canterbury
33- The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. ~John Madden
34- Don`t look back. Something might be gaining on you.
-Satchel Paige
Sports Quotes
35- Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.
-Lou Brock36- When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less. -Paul Brown
37- Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It's our goal in life to find it and to keep it fit. -Mary Lou Retton (American Olympic Gymnast)
38- If you're not just a little bit nervous before a match, you probably don't have the expectations of yourself that you should have. -Hale Irwin (American Golffer)
39- Before I get in the ring, I'd have already won or lost it out on the road. The real part is won or lost somewhere far away from witnesses-behind the lines, in the gym and out there on the road long before I dance under those lights. -Muhammad Ali
40- I consider myself blessed. I consider you blessed. We've all been blessed with God-given talents. Mine just happens to be beating people up. -Sugar Ray Leonard, American Boxer
41- 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
42- Sports do not build character. They reveal it. -Haywood Hale Broun
43- The first thing is to love your sport. Never do it to please someone else. It has to be yours. -Peggy Fleming
45- The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it which is identical. -Murray Walker
46- Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious. Alan Minter
47- I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father. -Greg Norman
48- Olympism is the marriage of sport and culture. -Juan Antonio Samaranch
49- Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game. -Paul Rodriguez
50- It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. -Robert Lynd