Sports

Since the dawn of time, there has been one truth about men: if they can toss it, pass it, dribble it, or throw it — they will. – The Middle, “The Sinkhole” (season6, episode6, original airdate 2014 November 12

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. – Steve Garvey

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. – Blaise Pascal

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. – John Madden

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

The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle. – Author Unknown

To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun. – Mary Russell Mitford, 1823

It is all very well to say that a man should play for the pure love of the game. Perhaps he ought, but to the working man it is impossible. – J.J. Bentley

Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake. – Sylvester Stallone, 1990

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls. – George Bernard Shaw

The more I practice, the luckier I get. – Jerry Barber, about golf

I figure practice puts your brains in your muscles. – Sam Snead, about golf

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing your grandmother with her teeth out. – George Brett, 1986

Losing is the great American sin. – Jerome Holtzman

An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head. – Emil Zatopek

I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church. – Robin Williams, 1982

Officials are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium. – Ron Bolton

I was called “Rembrandt” Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas. – Bob Hope

To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. – Roland Barthes

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem. – Eddie Shaw, referring to Herol “Bomber” Graham