Sports Quotes

I don’t know why people question the academic training of an athlete. Fifty percent of the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their classes.

If I weren’t earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.

Football is violence and cold weather and sex and college rye.

My concentration level blocks out everything. Concentration is why some athletes are better than others. You develop that concentration in training and concentrate in a meet.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.

You don’t suffer, kill yourself and take the risks I take just for money. I love bike racing.

He hits the ball a long way and he knows how to win.

Perhaps the single most important element in mastering the techniques and tactics of racing is experience. But once you have the fundamentals, acquiring the experience is a matter of time.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.