(2632 quotes found)
“Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.”
Willie Mays
“Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability.”
Russell Mark
“How has retirement affected my golf game? A lot more people beat me now.”
Dwight David Eisenhower
“Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.”
Dave Barry
“As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.”
William Shakespeare
“The Internet is clearly about more than sports scores and email now. It's a place where we can conduct our democracy and get very large amounts of data to very large numbers of people.”
Frank James
“I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.”
Rogers Hornsby
“There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.”
Ted Williams
“Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.”
Bob Greene
“There are one-hundred fifty-four games in a season and you can find one-hundred fifty-four reasons why your team should have won every one of them.”
Bill Klem
