Sports Quotes

“Adversity teaches man about himself.”

Alonzo Mourning

“A bad attitude is worse than a bad swing.”

Payne Stewart

“I learned that if you want to make it bad enough, no matter how bad it is, you can make it.”

Gayle Sayers


The principle is competing against yourself. It’s about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before.”

Steve Young

“You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.”

A.J. Kitt

“Never go to bed a loser.”

George Halas

“Every great hitter works on the theory that the pitcher is more afraid of him than he is off the pitcher.”

Ty Cobb

“Someday they’re gonna write a blues song for fighters. It’ll be for slow guitar, soft trumpet and a bell.”

Sonny Liston

“A champion is one who gets up when he can’t see.”

Jack Dempsey

“If you’re going to be a champion, you must be willing to pay a greater price than your opponent.”

Bud Wilkinson

“Football doesn’t build character. It eliminates the weak ones.”

Darrell Royal

“A coach can’t hide behind the fact that some players didn’t play as well as they could have because that’s his job.”

Scotty Bowman

“if Howard Cossell was a sport, it would be Roller Derby.”

Jimmy Cannon

“Whenever I hear the name, Jack Dempsey, I think of an America that was one big roaring camp of miners, drifters, bunkhouse hands, con men, hard cases, men who lived by their fists and by their shooting irons and by the cards they drew.”

Jim Murray

“DiMaggio even looks good striking out.”

Ted Williams

“I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.”

Michael Jordan

“Great stars that knew their days in fame’s bright sun. I heard them trampling to oblivion.”

Grantland Rice

“Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can’t control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you.”

Cus D’Amato

Carrots may be good for my eyes, but they won’t straighten out the curve ball.”

Carl Furillo

“I do believe that my best hits border on felonious assaults.”

Jack Tatum

“(Bob) Gibson pitches as though he’s double-parked.”

Vin Scully

“Getting in a water hazard is like being in a plan crash-the result is final. Landing in a bunker is similar to an automobile accident- there is a chance of recovery.”

Bobby Jones

“Every time a shot goes up, I believe that the rebound is mine. I really believe it. I go after every ball because I believe it belongs to me.”

Moses Malone