Wrestling is ballet with violence. – Jesse Ventura
Life is about timing. – Carl Lewis
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. – Billie Jean King
Most ball games are lost, not won. – Casey Stengel
The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. – Ben Hogan
The two most important things in life are good friends and a strong bullpen. – Bob Lemon
All sports for all people. – Pierre de Coubertin
Sometimes in football you have to score goals. – Thierry Henry
If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out. – George Brett
Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. – Joe Adcock
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. – Gerald R. Ford
You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time. – Jim Bouton
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win. – Doug Collins
You can make a lot of money in this game. Just ask my ex-wives. Both of them are so rich that neither of their husbands work. – Lee Trevino
The integrity of the game is everything. – Peter Ueberroth
It is almost impossible to remember how tragic a place the world is when one is playing golf. – Robert Wilson Lynd
Bulls do not win bull fights. People do. – Norman Ralph Augustine
My family knew, but most of the sporting world did not realize that my right hand been some 75% paralyzed. – Bill Toomey
There was endless action – not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk – the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part. – Charles Spalding
Eighteen holes of match play will teach you more about your foe than 18 years of dealing with him across a desk. – Grantland Rice
