“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.”
Sports compress the entire human drama — triumph, failure, teamwork, rivalry — into a format with clear rules and a definite ending. These quotes come from athletes, coaches, and fans who understand that games reveal character.
“Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.”
“There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.”
“I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.”
“I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.”
“I wanted to use sports for social change.”
“You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.”
“I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.”
“The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.”
“Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.”
“For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
“I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.”
“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”
“Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.”
“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.”
“There is a syndrome in sports called 'paralysis by analysis.'”
“It's not just the NFL. Every other league has a draft. It has been fundamental to the success of professional sports.”