Sports Quotes

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn’t play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again.

People ask me what I do in winter when there’s no baseball. I’ll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

You don’t play against opponents, you play against the game of basketball.

Football is football and talent is talent. But the mindset of your team makes all the difference.

To me, it doesn’t matter how good you are. Sport is all about playing and competing. Whatever you do in cricket and in sport, enjoy it, be positive and try to win.