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SPORTS QUOTES
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Squash is boxing with racquets. — Jonah Barrington
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Crystallizing my feelings about the game, I find that squash is less frustrating than golf, less fickle than tennis. It is easier than badminton, cheaper than polo. It is better exercise than bowls, quicker than cricket, less boring than jogging, drier than swimming, safer than hang gliding. — John Hopkins, Squash: A Joyful Game, 1980
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The umpire... is like the geyser in the bathroom; we cannot do without it, yet we notice it only when it is out of order. — Neville Cardus
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There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. — Mike Penner, Los Angeles Times
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If you make every game a life-and-death thing, you're going to have problems. You'll be dead a lot. — Dean Smith
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I think you enjoy the game more if you don't know the rules. Anyway you're on the same wavelength as the referees. — Jonathan Davies, 1995
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Losing is the great American sin. — Jerome Holtzman
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As a manager, you always have a gun to your head. It's a question of whether there is a bullet in the barrel. — Kevin Keegan, 1995
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Fans are the only ones who really care. There are no free-agent fans. — Dick Young
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People understand contests. You take a bunch of kids throwing rocks at random and people look askance, but if you go and hold a rock-throwing contest - people understand that. — Don Murray
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All sports are games of inches. — Dick Ritger
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If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser. — John Donne, 1623
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We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. — Al Attles, on Nate Archibald
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All a manager has to do is keep eleven players happy - the eleven in the reserves. The first team are happy because they are in the first team. — Rodney Marsh, 1979
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Most people are in a factory from nine till five. Their job may be to turn out 263 little circles. At the end of the week they're three short and somebody has a go at them. On Saturday afternoons they deserve something to go and shout about. — Rodney Marsh, 1969
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To dope the racer is as criminal, as sacrilegious, as trying to imitate God; it is stealing from God the privilege of the spark. — Roland Barthes
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Life is simply a cricket match, with temptation as the bowler. — Author Unknown
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Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain. — Alec Douglas Home
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I cannot for the life of me see why the umpires, the only two people on a cricket field who are not going to get grass stains on their knees, are the only two people allowed to wear dark trousers. — Katharine Whitehorn
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I know we're meant to be these hard-headed, money-obsessed professionals but we're still little boys at heart. Just ask our wives. — Rob Lee, 1998
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Sports are too much with us. Late and soon, sitting and watching - mostly watching on television - we lay waste our powers of identification and enthusiasm and, in time, attention as more and more closing rallies and crucial putts and late field goals and final playoffs and sudden deaths and world records and world championships unreel themselves ceaselessly before our half-lidded eyes. — Roger Angell
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Sport is where an entire life can be compressed into a few hours, where the emotions of a lifetime can be felt on an acre or two of ground, where a person can suffer and die and rise again on six miles of trails through a New York City park. Sport is a theater where sinner can turn saint and a common man become an uncommon hero, where the past and the future can fuse with the present. Sport is singularly able to give us peak experiences where we feel completely one with the world and transcend all conflicts as we finally become our own potential. — George A. Sheehan
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Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and accounts for the immense wealth of American sports. It is the ceremony of innocence that the fans pay to see - not the game or the match or the bout, but the ritual portrayal of a world in which time stops and all hope remains plausible, in which everybody present can recover the blameless expectations of a child, where the forces of light always triumph over the powers of darkness. — Lewis H. Lapham, Money and Class in America, 1988
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