Sports Quotes

  • All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
    ~ Gordie Howe
  • Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
    ~ William Arthur Ward
  • A lifetime of training for just ten seconds.
    ~ Jesse Owens
  • A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.
    ~ Wayne Gretzky
  • One day of practice is like one day of clean living. It doesn't do you any good.
    ~ Abe Lemmons
  • Men forget everything; women remember everything. That's why men need instant replays in sports. They've already forgotten what happened.
    ~ Rita Rudner
  • Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?
    ~ Vin Scully
  • 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.
    ~ Arthur Marshall
  • Professional wrestling's most mysterious hold is on its audience.
    ~ Luke Neely, 1953
  • To think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
    ~ Mary Russell Mitford, 1823
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