Sports Quotes

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.

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.

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

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

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.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

If you meet the Buddha in the lane, feed him the ball.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.