Funny Sports Quotes

• It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

  Muhammad Ali

  Funny, Sports, Jobs

  Twitter post from Aug 18, 2010

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  Don't give up at half time. Concentrate on winning the second half.

  Bear Bryant

  Inspirational, Sports, Football

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• They don't think it be like it is, but it do.

  Oscar Gamble

  Inspirational, Sports, Baseball

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• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "This Speech Was Given Before The #4Women4AllWomen Run" by Powdered Feet, womensrunning.competitor.com. January 25, 2017.

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• Everyone is an athlete. The only difference is that some of us are in training, and some are not.

  George A. Sheehan

  Sports, Running, Athlete

  George A. Sheehan, George Sheehan (1992). “Dr. George Sheehan on getting fit & feeling great”, Outlet

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• You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.

  Wayne Gretzky

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

  Don Shula

  Funny, Sports, Football

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• I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church.

  Robin Williams

  Sports, Lacrosse, Church

  1982 Interview in Playboy.

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• Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps.

  Tiger Woods

  Basketball, Sports, Sexy

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• We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

  Jason Kidd

  Teamwork, Sports, Witty

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• It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get.

  Arnold Palmer

  Funny, Sports, Golf

  FaceBook post by Arnold Palmer from Oct 04, 2016

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• Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

  Gary Lineker

  Funny, Soccer, Sports

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• The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter.

  Dave Barry

  Sports, Football, Winter

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  The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a man's determination.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

  Twitter post from Aug 24, 2015

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• It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• You're never a loser until you quit trying.

  Mike Ditka

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.

  Woody Hayes

  Football, Jail, Way

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• It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

  Muhammad Ali

  Motivational, Faith, Sports

  Twitter post from Mar 27, 2017

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• He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

  Eddie Shaw

  Sports, Art, Boxing

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• My sister's expecting a baby, and I don't know if I'm going to be an uncle or an aunt.

  Chuck Nevitt

  Funny, Sports, Baby

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• I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father.

  Greg Norman

  Sports, Mother, Father

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

  George Will

  Football, Inspiration, Nfl

  International Herald Tribune, May 07, 1990.

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• For those of you watching in black and white, Spurs are in the all-yellow strip.

  John Motson

  Football, Black And White, Yellow

  Quoted in Motson's National Obsession (2004).

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• Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.

  Satchel Paige

  Funny, Sports, Baseball

  "How to Keep Young," Collier's, 13 June 1953

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• I want all the kids to do what I do, to look up to me. I want all the kids to copulate me.

  Andre Dawson

  Funny, Kids, Dumb

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