Famous Sports Quotes in English with Images

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player play where the puck is going to be.

- Wayne Gretzky Quotes

Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life.  Violence and committee meetings.

Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don’t like that attitude. I can assure them it is much more serious than that.

- Sports Quotes by Bill Shankly

My life is like a zombie movie! I survive game after game after game, but the football just keeps coming! The only way to stop team sports is to aim for the head.

For people to judge a man’s worth and his very manhood according to the way he feels about sport, and not to recognize it for the piddly, inconsequential going on that it really is…

- Robin Green and Mitchell Burgess Quotes

Nobody in the game of football should be called a genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein.

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or lost-
But how you played the game.

Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.

Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.

Anybody who watches three games of football in a row should be declared brain dead.

- Sports Quotes by Erma Bombeck

It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it.

- Sports Quotes by John Wooden Download or Share

I went to a fight the other night, and a hockey game broke out.

- Rodney Dangerfield Quotes

Not every age is fit for childish sports.

- Titus Maccius Plautus Quotes

If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work.

- William Shakespeare Quotes

Desire is the most important factor in the success of any athlete.

- Willie Shoemaker Quotes

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.

Sports do not build character.  They reveal it.

- Heywood Broun Quotes

If it weren’t for baseball, many kids wouldn’t know what a millionaire looked like.

- Phyllis Diller Quotes