Sports Quotes
“The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves.”
“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”
-- Billie Jean King
“I was very fortunate to play sports. All the anger in me went out. I had to do what I had to do. If you stay angry all the time, then you really don't have a good life.”
-- Willie Mays
“The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.”
-- Marion Jones
“I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.”
-- Joan Jett
“Competition is the spice of sports but if you make spice the whole meal you'll be sick.”
-- George Leonard