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Abe Lemmons
One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
Abe Lemons
Finish last in your league and they call you Idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you Doctor.
Al Attles, on Nate Archibald
We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score.
Al McGuire
Winning is overrated. The only time it is really important is in surgery and war.
Al Oerter
I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another.
Alec Douglas Home
Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain.
Alistair Cooke
Every sport pretends to a literature, but people don't believe it of any other sport but their own.
Andrew Dickson White
I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.
Arthur Marshall
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.
Author Unknown
The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle.
Author Unknown
Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler.
Bill Lee
When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body.
Bo Jackson
Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.
Bob Hope
I was called "Rembrandt" Hope in my boxing days, because I spent so much time on the canvas.
Bum Phillips
Commenting on LaVell Edwards' contribution to college football: He may not be at the head of the class, but whatever class he is in it doesn't take long to call the roll.
Carol G. Hanson
If we could get the public as involved and as informed about politics as they are about Monday Night Football, we would not have as many problems. People have to get off their duffs and participate.
Casey Stengel
Most games are lost, not won.
Casey Stengel
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Casey Stengel
The trouble is not that players have sex the night before a game. It's that they stay out all night looking for it.
 
 
 
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