FUNNY SPORTS QUOTES \ Source: pages.ph

SPORTS QUOTES
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Take what Muhammad Ali once said: “I’m so fast I could hit you before God gets the news.”
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“The man who will whip me will be fast, strong and hasn’t been born yet.”
– Muhammad Ali.
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“Golf is the only game where the worst player gets the best of it. He obtains more out of it as regards both exercise and enjoyment, for the good player gets worried over the slightest mistake, whereas the poor player makes too many mistakes to worry over them.”
– David Lloyd George
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“Brazilian football is not only a sport. It’s a kind of stage play, a theatrical movement.”
– Muniz Sodre
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“A sport where the players actually enjoy getting hit in the head by a ball.”
– soccer advertisement
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“The World Cup is every four years so it’s going to be a perennial problem.”
– English player Gary Lineker
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“To be No. 1, you must train like you are No. 2.”
– sprinter Maurice Greene
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“Sport is the only entertainment where, no matter how many times you go back, you never know the ending.”
– US playwright Neil Simon
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“I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.”
– writer Alec Thornton
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“Chess. For a game it is too serious, for seriousness too much of a game.”
– German philosopher Moses Mendelsson
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“They don’t give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.”
– Michael Johnson
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“In the end, it’s extra effort that separates a winner from second place. But winning takes a lot more than that, too. It starts with complete command of the fundamentals. Then it takes desire, determination, discipline and self-sacrifice. And finally, it takes a great deal of love, fairness and respect for your fellow man. Put all these together, and even if you don’t win, how can you lose?”
– Jesse Owens
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“Life’s too short for chess.”
– British actor Henry James Byron
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“Pain means progress.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger
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“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods.”
– US president John F. Kennedy
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“Chess is the gymnasium of the mind.”
– Vladimir Llyich Lenin
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