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Sports have a unique power to inspire, challenge, and unite people across cultures and generations. The words of athletes, coaches, and thinkers often capture the dedication, resilience, and passion that define competition. The following quotes reflect the spirit of sports and the lessons they teach both on and off the field.    ◀ Back
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I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.
Topic: Sports
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Topic: Sports
a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
- bill shankly
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Topic: Sports
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wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'

As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Natural Born Charmer
Topic: Sports
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I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.
- Steve Nash
Topic: Sports
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
- Ben Hogan
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Topic: Sports
I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else.
- J. Sterling
In Dreams
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Topic: Sports
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
- Bobby Charlton
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero
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Topic: Sports
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
- George Plimpton
Paper Lion
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Topic: Sports
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
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Topic: Sports
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Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
- Vernon D. Burns
Gods of the Jungle Planet
Topic: Sports
My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing.
- Jaci Burton
All Wound Up
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Topic: Sports
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
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Topic: Sports
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
- Pat Conroy
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Topic: Sports
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- Herbert Hoover
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Topic: Sports
One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
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Topic: Sports
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New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.
- Bill Maher
The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
Topic: Sports
The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver heartfelt testimonials. You can't play for Ladouceur unless you're willing to stand in front of your teammates and bare your soul. You can't play unless you're willing to cry.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
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Topic: Sports
I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said.
"California sucks this year."
Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.
- Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls
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Topic: Sports
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Topic: Sports
Regulators need to take their regulatory responsibilities more seriously, to focus more on protecting consumers and less on protecting their state’s new source of revenue.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
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Topic: Sports
If any aspect of the sports gambling boom has inspired a backlash, it is not rising rates of problem gambling, industry lobbying, or the athletes banned for gambling. It is the advertising. Everyone hates ads, after all. But the sudden rise of sports betting ads seems to have inspired a special kind of rancor and regulatory pushback. Frustration with sports betting ads relates in no small part to their sheer quantity, with around 1.5 million television advertisements in 2023. In polls, 47 percent of Americans—and nearly 60 percent of sports fans—agreed that there were too many ads. Just 10 percent disagreed. As late-night television host Conan O’Brien tweeted, “I haven’t seen an online sports betting ad in almost 7 minutes. Am I dead?
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
On TV and online, companies have turned to celebrity spokespeople to help normalize sports gambling. On the surface, the selection of spokesmen and they are almost all men may seem unconventional: comedian and actor Kevin Hart for DraftKings, actor and singer Jamie Foxx for BetMGM, and actor and comedian J. B. Smoove for Caesars. After all, none have any post-secondary athletic credentials. The former DraftKings employee believes these spokesmen were chosen to make sports betting feel accessible to casual fans, rather than someone already obsessed with sports or gambling.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
In 2022, a New York Times investigation uncovered at least eight campuses that had reached partnerships with gambling companies, including the University of Colorado Boulder, where every download of the PointsBet app using the university’s promotional code netted the school $30 after the customer placed their first bet.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.
Topic: Sports
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
- bill shankly
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'

As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Natural Born Charmer
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.
- Steve Nash
Topic: Sports
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
- Ben Hogan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else.
- J. Sterling
In Dreams
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
- Bobby Charlton
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
- George Plimpton
Paper Lion
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
- Vernon D. Burns
Gods of the Jungle Planet
Topic: Sports
My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing.
- Jaci Burton
All Wound Up
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
- Pat Conroy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- Herbert Hoover
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.
- Bill Maher
The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
Topic: Sports
The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver heartfelt testimonials. You can't play for Ladouceur unless you're willing to stand in front of your teammates and bare your soul. You can't play unless you're willing to cry.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said.
"California sucks this year."
Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.
- Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Topic: Sports
Regulators need to take their regulatory responsibilities more seriously, to focus more on protecting consumers and less on protecting their state’s new source of revenue.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
If any aspect of the sports gambling boom has inspired a backlash, it is not rising rates of problem gambling, industry lobbying, or the athletes banned for gambling. It is the advertising. Everyone hates ads, after all. But the sudden rise of sports betting ads seems to have inspired a special kind of rancor and regulatory pushback. Frustration with sports betting ads relates in no small part to their sheer quantity, with around 1.5 million television advertisements in 2023. In polls, 47 percent of Americans—and nearly 60 percent of sports fans—agreed that there were too many ads. Just 10 percent disagreed. As late-night television host Conan O’Brien tweeted, “I haven’t seen an online sports betting ad in almost 7 minutes. Am I dead?
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
On TV and online, companies have turned to celebrity spokespeople to help normalize sports gambling. On the surface, the selection of spokesmen and they are almost all men may seem unconventional: comedian and actor Kevin Hart for DraftKings, actor and singer Jamie Foxx for BetMGM, and actor and comedian J. B. Smoove for Caesars. After all, none have any post-secondary athletic credentials. The former DraftKings employee believes these spokesmen were chosen to make sports betting feel accessible to casual fans, rather than someone already obsessed with sports or gambling.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
In 2022, a New York Times investigation uncovered at least eight campuses that had reached partnerships with gambling companies, including the University of Colorado Boulder, where every download of the PointsBet app using the university’s promotional code netted the school $30 after the customer placed their first bet.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
I realize I'm black, but id like to be viewed as a person, and that is everybody's wish.
Topic: Sports
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
a lot of football success is in the mind. you must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.
- bill shankly
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
wouldn't you like to make sure all those millions you give to Uncle Sam went to schools and hospitals instead of nuclear warheads?'

As a matter of fact, he would. Playgrounds for big kids, preschool programs to little ones, and mandatory LASIK surgery for NFL refs.
- Susan Elizabeth Phillips
Natural Born Charmer
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
I'm playing; I'm here. I'm going to fight until they tell me they don't want me anymore.
- Steve Nash
Topic: Sports
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
- Ben Hogan
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
I love the smell of the ice... And the cold. The sound the puck makes when it's sliding across the ice or when hits the net for a goal... as long as it's our goal. I love the sound of sticks crashing against one another. The sound my skates make when I come to a hard stop. The roar of the crowd. The way I feel when i'm playing. I can do things on this ice that I can't do anywhere else.
- J. Sterling
In Dreams
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
In the sweep of its appeal, its ability to touch every corner of humanity, football is the only game that needed to be invented.
- Bobby Charlton
My Manchester United Years: The autobiography of a footballing legend and hero
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
The pleasure of sport was so often the chance to indulge the cessation of time itself--the pitcher dawdling on the mound, the skier poised at the top of a mountain trail, the basketball player with the rough skin of the ball against his palm preparing for a foul shot, the tennis player at set point over his opponent--all of them savoring a moment before committing themselves to action.
- George Plimpton
Paper Lion
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
Tennis taught me to take chances, to take life as it comes. To hit every ball that comes to me no matter how hard it looks, to give it my best shot.
- Thisuri Wanniarachchi
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.
- Vernon D. Burns
Gods of the Jungle Planet
Topic: Sports
My dad bought the team when I was little. I've been around guys like you my whole life. I'm over the whole 'jock-and-awe' thing.
- Jaci Burton
All Wound Up
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
Baseball is what we were. Football is what we have become.
- Mary McGrory
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
- Pat Conroy
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
- Herbert Hoover
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
One way, he thought, the whole thing of ring fighting was hurting somebody else, deliberately, and particularly when it was not necessary. Two men who have nothing against each other get in a ring and try to hurt each other, to provide vicarious fear for people with less guts than themselves. And to cover it up they called it sports and gambled on it. He had never looked at that way before, and if there was any single thing he could not endure it was to be a dupe.
- James Jones
From Here to Eternity
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
New Rule: Don't name your kid after a ballpark. Cubs fans Paul and Teri Fields have named their newborn son Wrigley. Wrigley Fields. A child is supposed to be an independent individual, not a means of touting your own personal hobbies. At least that's what I've always taught my kids, Panama Red and Jacuzzi.
- Bill Maher
The New New Rules: A Funny Look At How Everybody But Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass
Topic: Sports
The process begins during the off-season program, when players spend countless hours together and become heavily invested in the season before it even starts. It continues during these weekly meetings, when players stand and deliver heartfelt testimonials. You can't play for Ladouceur unless you're willing to stand in front of your teammates and bare your soul. You can't play unless you're willing to cry.
- Neil Hayes
When the Game Stands Tall: The Story of the De La Salle Spartans and Football's Longest Winning Streak
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
I've got a Don Baylor," J.T. said.
"California sucks this year."
Ralph snickered. "I wouldn't use a Baylor card to scrape dog shit off the street.
- Jodi Picoult
Salem Falls
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
NOT YET RATING ▼
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
Topic: Sports
Regulators need to take their regulatory responsibilities more seriously, to focus more on protecting consumers and less on protecting their state’s new source of revenue.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
If any aspect of the sports gambling boom has inspired a backlash, it is not rising rates of problem gambling, industry lobbying, or the athletes banned for gambling. It is the advertising. Everyone hates ads, after all. But the sudden rise of sports betting ads seems to have inspired a special kind of rancor and regulatory pushback. Frustration with sports betting ads relates in no small part to their sheer quantity, with around 1.5 million television advertisements in 2023. In polls, 47 percent of Americans—and nearly 60 percent of sports fans—agreed that there were too many ads. Just 10 percent disagreed. As late-night television host Conan O’Brien tweeted, “I haven’t seen an online sports betting ad in almost 7 minutes. Am I dead?
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
On TV and online, companies have turned to celebrity spokespeople to help normalize sports gambling. On the surface, the selection of spokesmen and they are almost all men may seem unconventional: comedian and actor Kevin Hart for DraftKings, actor and singer Jamie Foxx for BetMGM, and actor and comedian J. B. Smoove for Caesars. After all, none have any post-secondary athletic credentials. The former DraftKings employee believes these spokesmen were chosen to make sports betting feel accessible to casual fans, rather than someone already obsessed with sports or gambling.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
In 2022, a New York Times investigation uncovered at least eight campuses that had reached partnerships with gambling companies, including the University of Colorado Boulder, where every download of the PointsBet app using the university’s promotional code netted the school $30 after the customer placed their first bet.
- Jonathan D. Cohen
Losing Big: America's Reckless Bet on Sports Gambling
NOT YET RATING ▼
Topic: Sports
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