Famous Quotes About sports

Baseball is the only field of endeavor where a man can succeed three times out of ten and be considered a good performer.

I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.