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Serious sport is war minus the shooting.
Sep 10, 2025
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
You know what they say about big hitters...the woods are full of them.
I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.
The NFL, like life, is full of idiots.
You don't like to see hookers going down on players like that.
I've never lost a game I just ran out of time.
When I first started running, I was so embarrassed I'd walk when cars passed me. I'd pretend I was looking at the flowers!
Playing polo is like trying to play golf during an earthquake.
I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.
You can sum up this sport in two words: You never know.
The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.
And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.
This is really a lovely horse, I once rode her mother.
Rugby is a good occasion for keeping thirty bullies far from the center of the city.
The only way to stop Jim Brown was to give him a movie contract.
The drivers have one foot on the brake, one on the clutch and one on the throttle.
He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.
The three toughest fighters I ever fought were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprised I'm not diabetic.
All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Any time Detroit scores more than 100 points and holds the other team below 100 points they almost always win.
Chemistry is a class you take in high school or college, where you figure out two plus two is 10, or something.
Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.
What's tough is being good every day.
It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.
Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
NO MAN CAN AVOID BEING BORN AVERAGE, BUT NO MAN HAS TO STAY AVERAGE.
You owe it to yourself to be the best you can possibly be - in baseball and in life.
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
When you get that nice celebration coming into the dugout and you're getting your ass hammered by guys, there's no better feeling than to have that done.
Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?
Most football players are temperamental. That's 90 percent temper and 10 percent mental.
You have to play this game like somebody just hit your mother with a two-by-four.
Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!
A tie is like kissing your sister.
Football: A sport that bears the same relation to education that bullfighting does to agriculture.
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.
They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision.
Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them-a desire, a dream, a vison.
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
I found out that if you are going to win games, you had better be ready to adapt.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.
It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.