Sports Quotes

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

One thing you learned as a Cubs fan: when you bought you ticket, you could bank on seeing the bottom of the ninth.

The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.

Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past five.

I started playing ball when I was a kid. My dad was a pro ball player and he passed on his knowledge to me.

You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.

All sports for all people.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

He hits it long. His shoulders are impressively quick through the ball. That's where he's getting his power from. He's young and has great elasticity.

The team has come along slow but fast.

Relax? How can anybody relax and play golf? You have to grip the club, don't you?

If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

The only athletic sport I ever mastered was backgammon.

If you got the game, you got the game. That's why Tiger Woods is out there playing golf with Greg Norman.

My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed.

Other sports play once a week but this sport is with us every day.

He's got an overall flair for the game. It looks to me like he really loves what he does and he can't wait to get up in the morning, go hit some balls and go play.

You don't suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.