Famous sports quotes
It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly.
- John Paul II
Baseball will miss Steinbrenner.
He did a lot of great things—and
some not so great—but it’s a sad day for baseball,
no doubt about it.
He was a winner, and he made the Yankees a winner.
- Don Zimmer
On his wife Lindsey Vonn’s skiing style:
Her chin used to be in front of her tips
every section of the course.
It was only one gear—full out—but to have
longevity in your career in ski racing,
you have to know where to put the pedal
to the metal and where to hit the brakes.
- Thomas Vonn
Two things only the people anxiously desire,
bread and the Circus games.
- Juvenal
What matters isn’t how well you play when you’re playing well.
What matters is how well you play when you’re playing badly.
- Martina Navratilova
On Michael Vick’s $100 million contract:
Everything’s going good in his life.
Can he continue to avoid the negativity,
the dark side off the field?
Because now this is where the pressure
comes from friends, family members,
people out in the street, people
that he used to hang out with.
They see $100 million.
- Rodney Harrison
Pro football is like nuclear warfare:
There are no winners, only survivors.
- Frank Gifford
I do not participate in any sport
with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
- Erma Bombeck
If God had meant Wimbledon to be played in great weather,
he would have put it in Acapulco.
