Sports Quotes

I don't know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.

Reverse every natural instinct and do the opposite of what you are inclined to do, and you will probably come very close to having a perfect golf swing.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Bulls do not win bull fights. People do.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

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.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

The integrity of the game is everything.

I play in the low 80s. If it's any hotter than that, I won't play.