Sports Quotes
“The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports' appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, they're no different from movies they're scripted.”
“Football, basketball, and the Olympic sports all have their problems with banned substances.”
-- Jim Sensenbrenner
“I think professional sports, football, to use it as an example, it's fundamentally a form of entertainment.”
-- Gregg Easterbrook
“To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.”
-- Jerry West