Sports Quotes
“The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.”
“While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.”
-- Jerry B. Jenkins
“It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling.”
-- Mark Twain
“Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.”
-- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Just like I find men who talk sports who don't really know sports annoying, I think men might find women who don't really have a true passion and knowledge of sports maybe not so attractive.”
-- Gabrielle Union
“The sports world is an echo chamber. All it takes is one quote from a general manager and a thousand sports columns bloom.”
-- Michael Lewis