47 quotes found
“Behind every tennis player there is another tennis player.”
“Catching a fly ball is a pleasure but knowing what to do with it is a business.”
“Trying to get a fast ball past Hank Aaron is like trying to get the sun past a rooster.”
“A sportsman is a man who every now and then simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he's cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.”
“Hockey captures the essence of the Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold hockey is the dance of life and an affirmation that despite the deathly chi...”
“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong - but that's the way to bet.”
“Sport begets tumultuous strife and wrath and wrath begets fierce quarrels and war to the death.”
“Citius altius fortius. (Swifter higher stronger.)”
“Well God is certainly getting an earful tonight.”
“Going to bed with a woman never hurt a ball player. It's staying up all night looking for them that does you in.”
“Knute Rockne liked 'bad losers.' He said 'good losers' lose too often.”
“Ninety per cent of this game is half-mental.”
“I have never been able to understand why pigeon-shooting at Hurlingham should be refined and polite while a rat-killing match in Whitechapel is low.”
“When I play with my cat who knows whether I do not make her more sport than she makes me?”
“If all the year were playing holidays To sport would be as tedious as to work.”
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
“Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.”
“It you watch a game it's fun. If you play it it's recreation. If you work at it it's golf.”
“Every time you win you're reborn when you lose you die a little.”
“If you aren't fired with enthusiasm you'll be fired with enthusiasm.”
