Sports Quotes

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

What's a good tournament for him? Winning it. He's good enough.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Most ball games are lost, not won.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.

It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

I overcame size with mechanics.

You cannot win if you cannot run.

Boxing has become America's tragic theater.

I had pro offers from the Detroit Lions and Green Bay Packers, who were pretty hard up for linemen in those days. If I had gone into professional football the name Jerry Ford might have been a household word today.

Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.

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.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.